(2019-12-31, 01:31)RonnieG3 Wrote: Hey guys, I just lost my hard drive with EVERYTHING CV related on it. I'm so discouraged to have to look for and re-download everything again. I didn't do any trivia - mainly I just had Theater Intro, Trailer Intro, Movie Intro, MPAA, Audio Bumpers, and countdown.
Anyone know where I might find a collection of intros and bumpers without having to search for each one manually? Again? Right now I'm just showing trailers before each movie, but I kind of miss the whole experience. If not, I'll just have to search, but I'm hoping some of you might know where a collection might be stored already zipped and such
Thanks in advance
FYI, until you have CV all set up and running, you can create a playlist to mimic a CinemaVision intro / trailer / bumper sequence. I’ve been downloading movie trailers from
http://www.hd-trailers.net and place them in a folder. You can also add bumpers to the same folder where the trailers are. If you want an intro before the trailers, name the bumper to something like "000-Intro Bumper.mp4" and if you want another bumper after the trailers but before the feature presentation, add it to the folder and rename the file to something like "zzz-Feature Presentation Intro.mp4". Clear any existing queue/playlist. Add the folder to a new queue, add the movie to the queue, then play the queue. Since the folder was queued first, everything in the folder will play in alphabetical order, followed by the feature presentation.
Notes:
If you have “Adjust Display Refresh Rate” enabled (On start / stop) then all videos in the queued playlist should be 23.976 fps so that there are no delays between videos of different frame rates (especially for projectors). All movie trailers are at 23.976 fps but I had to use Handbrake to re-encode the THX bumper and my HT intro bumper (they were both 24.0 fps instead of 23.976). It’s also a good idea to enable the “Delay After Change Of Refresh Rate” in the System > Display settings to match the time you’ll need for your display device to catch up with the beginning of the first movie trailer.
I use the Rapier skin, which can hide the on screen seek bar in between videos (System > Skin > Configure Skin > Media > Hide Seek Bar OSD During Fullscreen Playback).
To hide the Busy dialog during fullscreen video playback, manually replace line 12 in DialogBusy.xml with:
Code:
<visible>!Window.IsVisible(fullscreenvideo)</visible>
Note – If the skin receives an update, this could get overwritten so I’ve disabled automatic updates for the skin and will manually update when needed, and then just update the DialogBusy.xml again.
I have Philips Hue lighting and relied on action files to control the lights. This now has to be done manually. You can create scenes in any hue app (I have one for Normal Lighting and one for Trailers, then of course one to turn off the lights as the movie begins). The official Philips Hue app doesn’t allow me to adjust the transition time (I like a 5-second transition between each scene) so I had to find another app.
I miss the movie trivia and I’d like to have a one or two second gap in between the videos on the playlist, but until you have CinemaVision working again, it’s the next best thing.
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