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0001144DCP-o-maticFeaturespublic2024-01-03 11:53
Reportercarl Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityN/A
Status acknowledgedResolutionopen 
Summary0001144: Slide show maker
Description

Hi,I just thought i should contact you and ask for a feature to DCP o Matic.
That is some specific slide show maker for slide show DCP advertise.
It would be amazing if there would be some kind of special slide show maker available.

Lets say to make this easy that there are only 6 company that are advertising and i need 12 minutes long slide show.

Then it would be amazing if there where some kind of interface to manages this slide.
For those company i would make some kind of placeholder for this company.

For example:

Dominos
KFC
Coca Cola
Apple
Kit Kat
Nike

But in those placeholder i could add the actual jpeg slides 1920x1080 and each company placeholder could have more than on slide for that company.
So lets say if Coca Cola have 3 slides then the loop would run in the first time showing coca cola slide nr 1, next time the loop run it shows the coca cola slide nr 2 and the third time the loop plays it will show the coca cola slide
nr 3.
Because sometimes company like to send us 3 diffrent slide that they want to have in rotation.
Then also each company placeholder would have some expiration date.
Then i only have to tell the software i want each slide to be in 10 secounds and i need dcp slide show for 12 minutes and then i can create and manages easily the slide show.

I know this slide show can easily be done already in DoM but it would be easier to manage this with some specific dcp slide show maker tool.
Then for example every friday i will go into the software, add slides and create new slide show. And i make sure if the company that have expiration date will go again in or not.

I am doing this now with special digital signages system that i run from raspberry pi.
But during intermission i always have to changes the lens to HDMI flat even if the movie is scope.
I like more the idea of not changes the lens on the projector and then i can make 16:9 (1920x1080) slideshow in scope container on scope shows so i will never have to let the projector changes the lens during intermission.

I am using screenly today on raspberry pi, that works very well but i would rather like to use DCP slide show during intermission instead of changes the projector to another lens input.

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Carsten

2017-12-19 15:00

manager   ~0001860

Hmm. Honestly, from my perspective, this is way to special to be implemented on the mastering side of things.

I would think of two ways to implement this - show the slides through external gear, like the Raspberry-PI, where it is much easier to deal with changes in the slide sequence. Should be very easy to do all the changes you want with simple scripting, adjusted to your specific needs.

Or, if you absolutely want to got with DCPs, there should be an application that creates playlists for your specific server to handle the slide sequences.

It is probably possible to do what you want with the command line Interface of DOM with some scripting as well.

  • Carsten

manuelac

2017-12-30 21:51

developer   ~0001870

Screenly is a great solution. And why changing format (lens) is a problem? It usually can be automated. If you have a manual lens you can create a format with a digital zoom, so the screenly input will show properly with the scope lens. I call it fauxFlat (fakeFlat for those of you outside Quebec).

As Carsten proposes, I implemented a playlist based solution that it's still working. Pretty manual but well designed, not even a TMS involved, and the advertisement changes every week.

There is a Mantis report with some ideas for slideshow optimisation.
http://dcpomatic.com/mantis/view.php?id=1079

Bug History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2017-12-06 22:29 carl New Bug
2017-12-19 15:00 Carsten Note Added: 0001860
2017-12-30 21:51 manuelac Note Added: 0001870
2023-12-22 22:33 carl Status new => acknowledged
2024-01-03 11:53 carl Severity minor => feature