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Create Show Playlist (SPL)
The ability to create New Show Playlists has been included
in MANAGE SHOWS
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from the Projectionist Terminal.
Inclusion of 3D Content an SPL (as a sub-playlist) that
includes 3D Content, or a 3D associated Projector
FUNCTION sets the created Show Playlist to a 3D type
and requires that the Projection Type be set to Single 3D
for presentation
2
. While 2D Content may be included in a
3D Show Playlist you cannot include a Projector
FUNCTION that is other than a 3D FUNCTION.
To create a New Playlist, tap
Menu
, tap
Shows
and then
tap
Manage Shows
. The MANAGE SHOWS pane
appears.
To add a new Show Playlist, tap
New
. The CREATE
PLAYLIST popup appears.
The default Title for a new SPL is the current Date/Time
(YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss). The SPL Title can be
changed in Properties.
Set Playlist Properties
To set the Playlist
Properties, tap
Properties
.
The PLAYLIST
PROPERTIES popup
appears.
PLAYLIST PROPERTIES
contains descriptive
information about the SPL.
When you tap either
Title
(limited to 64 characters)
or
Description
(limited to
512 characters), an on-
screen keyboard appears. Tap to set the information and
then tap
Enter
to close the keyboard. To set the Playlist
Type, tap
Type
and then tap to make your selection from
the list.
Once information has been set in PLAYLIST
PROPERTIES, tap
Apply
and the popup will close.
Setting of the Projection Type, a manual operation, is
separate from setting the correct projector FUNCTION,
i.e., a FUNCTION that is identified as a 3D FUNCTION.
To insure that 3D content presentation is successful the
first Playlist Element in a 3D SPL should be a FUNCTION
appropriate to the 3D Projection Type.
Add Start Offset (Virtual Black Leader)
In film, black leader is used to provide a brief interval
between different content. This often is used simply to
provide pacing to the sequence of content being presented,
e.g., between trailers or between the last trailer and the
feature start.
In Digital Cinema, “black” can be either the absence of the
playback of any Content (virtual black
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) during
presentation or it can be actual black content supplied as a
CPL included in the DCP. Virtual Black is realized by
creating a Start Offset for the following Content Element.
When creating a Start Offset, provision is made for
establishing a duration of the of the offset. When Black is
actual content, its duration is of a predetermined length and
the Content Type should be “transitional
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”.
1.Access to features under MANAGE SHOWS is Role
restricted.
Note
2.See
New
Title
Properties
Close
Save
Cancel
Add
Sub-Playlist
Commands
Content
Delete
Intermission
Setup
Note
3.The virtual Black Leader is created by electronically
muting the image output from the Content playback
subsystem (Media Block). The Start Offset (virtual Black
Playlist Element) appears green in the Content list and in
the subsequent Playlist.
4.Transitional Content is usually described as “extremely
short content (1 to 15 seconds) separating unrelated
compositions”.
Apply
Cancel
Title
Type
Description
