Transformers One loud "greeting"

[Mike Blakesley]

Transformers One opens with another one of those cast greeting clips that's recorded at ear-melting volume compared to the rest of the movie. Leave your volume setting at a reduced level until 20 seconds in.

[Tony Bandiera Jr]

Back in the film days, 30 seconds with a splicer would fix that issue fast.

I am so sick of cast and directors with their puffery ..just let us watch the fucking movie!

Ricky Gervais says it best here:

[Mike Blakesley]

I like the greetings, myself. It gives the audience a little pat on the back for actually going out to the movies. Anything that instills the idea of "seeing on the big screen the way it was meant to be seen" is OK with me -- which this greeting does say. I don't know how much of it "sinks in" with audiences, but I am glad they take the time to put it there.

I just wish the idiots at quality control would fix the sound level on these things. They NEVER match the audio of the movie. They must tack the greeting on at absolutely the last second.

[Frank Cox]

Do they do this greeting with both the 2d and 3d versions? If so, is this greeting in 3d as well?

"Put your 3d glasses on now" would end up in the wrong place otherwise.

[Tony Bandiera Jr]

I like the greetings, myself. It gives the audience a little pat on the back for actually going out to the movies. Anything that instills the idea of "seeing on the big screen the way it was meant to be seen" is OK with me -- which this greeting does say. I don't know how much of it "sinks in" with audiences, but I am glad they take the time to put it there.

I just wish the idiots at quality control would fix the sound level on these things. They NEVER match the audio of the movie. They must tack the greeting on at absolutely the last second.

With my years of experience as an announcer at mx races..I can tell you MAYBE 0.2% of the audience actually cares. (At the track I get maybe 0.5% who actually pay attention.)

And they don't need the idea of instilling them to see it on the big screen...they are already there! (This case shows why the greeting needs to be on the streaming and video releases instead...asking people to put down their devices and GO TO A THEATRE!)

This all falls back to the discussion on here about ads....people go to the movies to ESCAPE the constant bombardment of ads, and adding this sort of nonsense is adding to the time wasted getting to the movie itself.

I realize that, no thanks to the studios and their absolute asinine release windows and early releases to video, ads are a necessary evil in many cases to help the theatre to survive... so why let the studios and their minions pander to the very people who are paying their salaries?

They need to stop the self-aggrandizing BS and start making actual movies with solid stories, writing and acting. And stop with the endless sequels and reboots.

[Mike Blakesley]

And they don't need the idea of instilling them to see it on the big screen...they are already there!

True, but they have just spent $100 or more getting in and getting snacks, so having the players thank them for coming is a way of making them feel good about their purchase. There's nothing wrong with thanking people for being there. If they said "Thanks for coming, and by the way here's a QR code you can scan to buy toys and lunchboxes and bedsheets," then we'd have a problem.

As for the sequels and reboots....soon as they stop making giant bags of money on them, they'll stop making them.

[Jim Cassedy]

I, too like the idea of a quick cast or director clip thanking the audience for coming
out to see their movie in a theater. But I also wish whatever studio department is
responsible for making those clips would learn to author them at a volume that's
somewhat relative to the rest of the picture, as almost all of them are waaaaaay
too loud. My venue is running a flick from one of the smaller distributors for three
shows this weekend, and the sound on their studio logo clip is also insanely loud
and I had to insert a couple of special cues to compensate for that and then revert
bak to our normal volume setting.

[Magnus Eriksson]

"30 seconds with a splicer"

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[Philip Jones]

"30 seconds with a splicer"

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This is a great feature of the older Dolby Servers. Doesn't seem to be possible on the newer ones (maybe someone can correct me?)

[Shibu Paul]

In GDC TMS ' Manage skipping durations:

[Ryan Gallagher]

God I wish Doremi had that feature.

Has anyone ever seen a custom macro that can accomplish similar? Would be a multi-step one I expect (pause, goto timecode, unpause).

[Frank Cox]

I had never thought about this before but I just looked at page 19 of the GDC SR1000 user manual and it has this:

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If I understand what this is saying, you could set field number 1 (Start Frame/Time) to 20 seconds and the movie would start playing 20 seconds in.

[Frank Cox]

Actually I just this second got the notification that Transformers One has been downloaded.

TransformersOne_FTR-2-2D_S_EN-EN-CCAP_CA_51-HI-VI_2K_PC_20240822_EKN_SMPTE_OV
TransformersOne_FTR-2-3D-45fl_S_EN-EN-CCAP_CA_51-HI-VI_2K_PC_20240823_EKN_SMPTE-3D_OV
TF-ONE-GREETING_TLR_S_EN-XX_US_51_2K_PC_20240814_DLX_SMPTE_OV
TF-ONE-GREETING_TLR-3D_S_EN-XX_US_51_2K_PC_20240814_DLX_SMPTE-3D_OV

So for Canada at least the greeting appears to be a separate thing.

The total runtime for the movie shows as 1:44:11 and the greetings as 18 seconds.

What's the runtime on the movie that you have with the greeting built-in? It must be 18 (or 20) seconds longer.

[Elia Orselli]

God I wish Doremi had that feature.

Has anyone ever seen a custom macro that can accomplish similar? Would be a multi-step one I expect (pause, goto timecode, unpause).

Doremi has a skip to marker macro action that will do the same thing. You have to create a macro containing that action and define a marker name.
Then you'll create an SPL with a black before the CPL and place the macro on that black clip. On the main CPL you will have to add a marker with the name defined previously.
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Note that this will work only once per SPL execution. If you want to test, be sure to eject the playlist and load it again for the show

[Ryan Gallagher]

Doremi has a skip to marker macro action that will do the same thing. You have to create a macro containing that action and define a marker name.
Then you'll create an SPL with a black before the CPL and place the macro on that black clip. On the main CPL you will have to add a marker with the name defined previously.

Note that this will work only once per SPL execution. If you want to test, be sure to eject the playlist and load it again for the show

I will take a look for playback actions on ours. I've only utilized macros I created that appear in the CPL pane, didn't realize others might be hiding that are built in.