newmethos Posted April 4 Report Share Posted April 4 Excited that Watchout 7 is out in the world and that we can start exploring how to bring its new capabilities into our work. One fairly urgent matter for me, working frequently in American regional theaters, is the matter of show control, either MSC or OSC (ideally both, OSC functionality's inclusion in Watchout 7 is a huge win). At the moment, it does not seem like MSC or OSC (not from Eos or any other OSC source) can control any timeline in Watchout 7. What is the timeline for the inclusion of this feature? I know just having an operator advance cues seems like a natural solution, but lots of theaters do not have experienced video folks who can serve as operators and having LX trigger the projections is a major selling point for Watchout, so on the shows that I will be engineering/programming my solution will likely be to use TouchDesigner to receive the OSC coming off of the lighting console and translate that to Watchout's remote control protocol (that used to be a bit iffy because it was UDP based, not exactly missional critical territory to just drop some cue go triggers, but both Eos and TouchDesigner can do OSC over TCP, which will minimize that stuff). How are folks working around this at the moment? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dataton Partner Popular Post RBeddig Posted April 4 Dataton Partner Popular Post Report Share Posted April 4 Not sure whether MSC will ever find it's way into WATCHOUT since this protocol is about 10 years older than WATCHOUT 1.0. But maybe the dev team will look into this in the future. WATCHOUT 7 can see osc messages when those are float values. The iPhone app "protokol" by Hexler LLC is a nice free tool to see what data is actually sent by the osc sender. In WATCHOUT 7 you first create a new variable, e.g. osc.addr(“/Level/0”) with a value range of 0…1. Learning an osc key didn’t work for me (yet?). Then, sending a float value like 0.1234 to the osc address /Level should move the slider in your variable window. I used another little free iPhone app "Clean OSC" to send test data. Once this works, you can use the variable like any midi or artnet variable to work on an effect or to trigger a timeline. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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