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Author Topic: CNA-200 with intermissions? Tommie Evans Expert Film Handler Posts: 116 From: Birmingham, West Midlands, UK Registered: Sep 2004 posted 09-14-2005 03:55 PM                     Hi, we are running films with intermissions on the Cinemeccanica Vector 1000 automation - which is fine as this can be a timed step that does not require a pulse to restart after intermission. (we use a cue 3 ft before the interval but none after) Now, and I have searched the forums and manuals with no joy! We move the intermission(ed) shows into our CNA-200 screens which as I understand needs a cue after intermission to fire the presentation back up after <intermission wait> command to activate the show start logic! This is fine, but is there are way of cheating and getting the CNA-200 to resume after an intermission WITHOUT a cue, save changing a system we have worked with for 4 years?  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-14-2005 06:06 PM                        Andy A. at Sound Associates is probably the man for this  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-14-2005 06:56 PM                     Unfortunately, I don't believe that you can start the second half of the intermission without the use of the cue tape as with the CNA series from STRONG - being that these units are software based units that doesn't have the "batch file" line commands like the CPA-10 that these CNA series replaced, instead of the old cam and clock motor automations that one can actually adjust a cam for however long needs one. And with intermissions being almost a thing of the past is probably why STRONG discountinued such a option. Now, if you have access to the older CPA-10 units, that had clock start/stop/INTERMISSION feature within the software, then this autostart the 2nd half of the movie is possible. -Monte [ 09-15-2005, 12:23 AM: Message edited by: Monte L Fullmer ]  |  IP: Logged

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