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Jim Cassedy
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1661
From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted 11-18-2019 03:37 PM
You're lucky- - at least you got a JPG. I've been handed "slides" people
wanted on screen that were MS-WORD or PDF documents.
Here's my suggestion:
Take the JPG slide & make a "still" DCP using DCP-0-Matic.
It's VERY simple to do, and I've had to do this so many times under
similar circumstances that I can now churn one out in 5 min or less.
You can specify a particular run length, and even fade in & out.
I had to do one of these last minute just a week or so ago.
I was given a JPG image of a logo the client wanted to appear as
a slide on screen as people entered the theater and during the show
intro, and come up on screen again after the feature during a Q&A.
> I made a 20sec DCP of the slide with the fade in & out and added it
to the playlist just before, and again after, their main feature.
> I also programmed a [PAUSE] into the playlist. so that the 20sec
slide would pause half way through & stay on screen as long as needed.
> After their live intro, when it came time to start the show, I hit [PLAY] on
the serverthingy and had 10sec to deal with taking out stage & house lights
and killing microphones, etc until the logo slide faded out & feature began.
> At the end of the festure, I again attached the DCP Logo clip, which played
10sec and paused then automatically paused agan & stayed on screen
for the length of the Q&A.
As I said earlier, I've had to do this so many times, and always it seems
at the last minute, that I have sort of a 'template' I've made in DCP-O-Matic
so that all I pretty much have to do is name the project and put in the
image file, and the rest (fades, length, etc) are already 'programmed'.
Works like a charm! ![[thumbsup]](graemlins/thumbsup.gif)
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Carsten Kurz
Film God
Posts: 4340
From: Cologne, NRW, Germany
Registered: Aug 2009
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posted 11-18-2019 05:13 PM
I don't know any DCI server that plays a JPG (or any other common media file) without prior conversion. Yes, some 'projectors' can display still images as test images, but these need to be PNG, not JPEG, and you need installer/tech tools to use them that way.
Some servers are able to play h.264 oder VC1 video, but, usually, not as plain files, only when wrapped DCP style (similar to deprecated MPEG2-Interop), or using streaming methods.
- Carsten
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