Create an Intermission

[Silvana Martins]

I come here to ask for help, if anyone knows how to take a intermission in order to pass a video for the action given in the playlist. My idea is to make a halftime video in sony vegas with 7 minutes and pass it to the machine. It is necessary to make some format in particular? The machine is a Christie and we use IMS3000

[Brian Mendelssohn]

You can do this if you have a blu-ray player connected. The key is the intermission is on the blu-ray.... you 1. close douser.... pause for length of intermission (usually ms)... play your blu-ray... switch to blu-ray... switch back.... timer runs out on the pause... open douser.
now the hard part is to pick a place where the pause doesn't feel abrupt. A light fade would be amazing... but thats not a thing.

[Marcel Birgelen]

My go to hack on servers that don't support sub-playlists is to simply set a cue to stop the playback at the set time for the intermission, schedule the intermission show, schedule the feature second time and do a forward to the timestamp where the playback was stopped.

This has a few disadvantages though: When using a TMS, it's not going to like you doing this at all... The other issue if you're on VPF or some kind of audit, but I guess those contracts have been all done by now. The logs may show that you played the feature twice as often as you reported.

[Philip Jones]

Does the IMS3000 not do this out of the box? The IMS2000 certainly does - in your playlist click on the clip you want to insert the intermission into, then press the + button and adding an intermission will be one of the options. You can tell it what playlist to switch to and whereabouts in the film you want it.

All you need to do is make whatever video it is you want to play in the intermission into a DCP using DCP-o-matic

You can make your playlist a set length so the intermission is always the same amount of time, or you can put a pause cue in and restart manually when you are ready.

You can only do whole seconds though, not down to milliseconds\frames, so it is hard to get a good place for an intermission without seeing a bit of the next scene before you stop, or a bit of the previous scene when you restart. On the old DSS200s you can do it to the exact frame which is much better

[Elia Orselli]

IMS3000 does intermission as other Dolby/Doremi servers.

[Philip Jones]

Elia - on the IMS3000 can you set the intermission time to milliseconds\frames, or are you stuck with whole seconds like the IMS2000?

[Elia Orselli]

Only hhmmss

[Philip Jones]

That's a shame, especially as you can skip forward to the milliseconds so the functionality is obviously there, they've just not bothered putting it in the intermission feature.