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Author Topic: how does pre-show get to the screen with digital projection? Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-15-2008 12:10 AM                     So what happens when you've got 20 minutes of pre-show-crap on your D-cinema projector and operations can't get everyone through the lobby (or whatever) in time and wants to delay the movie. Do you just pause it and have everyone look at nothing for a few minutes?  |  IP: Logged Stu Jamieson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 524 From: Buccan, Qld, Australia Registered: Jan 2008 posted 02-15-2008 07:32 AM                     We'd endeavour to delay the start time of the programme but we've certainly stopped the head program before. And yes, the patrons sat in the auditorium listening to house music and staring at a blank screen for up to 15 minutes in one instance! quote: Aaron Sisemore Once ingested, the preshow (21 minute running time in our case) is simply tacked to the beginning of the playlist for each show. So "ingested" is actually the formal term for that, huh? When I first saw that on our digital server I thought it was merely the pretentious invention of an over-imaginative software engineer. I think the more conventional term "Download" would have made more inherent sense. Oh and our digital ad servers are just Windows PCs running proprietary presentation software.  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 02-15-2008 08:19 AM                     I thought "ingested" was a dumb term, also. Directory, File Manager, Explorer Shell Shocked, Battle Fatigue, Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome  |  IP: Logged Thomas Pitt Master Film Handler Posts: 266 From: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: May 2007 posted 02-15-2008 12:50 PM                     quote: We'd endeavour to delay the start time of the programme but we've certainly stopped the head program before. And yes, the patrons sat in the auditorium listening to house music and staring at a blank screen for up to 15 minutes in one instance! That's not altogether uncommon over here. Many cinemas I've been to just have a blank screen while the patrons are coming in, sometimes with non-sync sound playing. I think most are supposed to use a slide projector for pre-show adverts, but when they break down, are just left switched off. I've also seen a slide projector where the douser had failed and the carousel was 90% empty - just bright white light projected onto the screen! quote: Stu Jamieson Oh and our digital ad servers are just Windows PCs running proprietary presentation software. Seems sensible, though I would have thought it would be something more common like Powerpoint. At Bradford IMAX, for example, they run preshow slides from a Powerpoint presentation running on a laptop, and put that through a standard LCD video projector. There's then a 6-minute reel of adverts run on a 35mm projector, before the actual IMAX show starts.  |  IP: Logged Stu Jamieson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 524 From: Buccan, Qld, Australia Registered: Jan 2008 posted 02-15-2008 02:47 PM                     I guess the advantage of specialised presentation software is that it allows easier control of things like sound levels, sound formats, playlists, automation cues etc. We also still have 35mm ads which run after the digital ones and where the feature is digital we have digital ads followed by 35mm ads and trailers then back to digital feature. I guess that would be difficult to pull off with Powerpoint also.  |  IP: Logged

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