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Author Topic: Xetron Maxi12XPC Intermission mode and Interlock Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 06-24-2010 05:40 AM                        I will be building Twilight & New Moon as one film and I will be interlocking with a short intermission between. My question is how is the best way to set this up. We have the automation set up so 1 cue is end of trailers, 2 cues is start of credits, and 3 cues is end of show. If I'm interlocking from projector 1 to projector 2, what would be the proper way to set up the cues. Should I just set 2 cues at the start of the credits for Twilight and then press stop when the credits end on projector 2? And then would I just add 1 cue at the point where I would want the lights to go down for New Moon?  |  IP: Logged Bernie Anderson Jr Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Woodbridge, New Jersey Registered: Apr 2000 posted 06-24-2010 02:23 PM                        From what I remember, I would but a ton of leader between two prints. Still put the 3 cues on the end of the film, but set the one setting from Norm (or Run) to Inter. That's your intermission setting. On that 3 cue it should stop. I'm not sure if it would work with the interlock though. In that case, I would just hit stop and the interlock will shut the machines down and go into standby mode. The start lights should start blinking on the projector that is locked and the start light on the other projector will be off.  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 06-24-2010 06:27 PM                     Cue the film normally, except there needs to be 8 cues at the beginning; (at about the "10" on the countdown leader.) That tells the maxi you are interlocking. Press 'interlock' and 'interlock feed thru'. Interlock feed-thru button passes the interlock to the next projector (usually the one to the right, but that varies depending on the installer's wiring and/or the layout of the booth. Press 'show end mode'; that stops the projectors when the 'one' cue goes through instead of waiting for the film to run out.  |  IP: Logged

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