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Author Topic: Survey of how you receive your preshow content Gary Davidson Expert Film Handler Posts: 101 From: Santa Monica, CA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 02-22-2008 01:05 PM                     I’m conducting an informal survey of the ways various theatres receive their preshow content.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-22-2008 01:27 PM                     DVD-ROM from AccessIT.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 02-22-2008 02:59 PM                    NCM over Satellite feed to a central computer that then distributes it to a computer for each individual pre-show LCD projector dependent on the rating of the movie in that auditorium. All of the info for the show times and rating is picked up off of the point of sale system.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Pitt Master Film Handler Posts: 266 From: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: May 2007 posted 02-22-2008 03:15 PM                     When you say 'preshow', do you mean the slides that show on the screen prior to the main projector starting up? Or do you mean the commercials and policy snipes that often show before the trailers? Many cinemas in the UK run their preshow slides on a simple 35mm slide carousel projector. In this case, the slides are usually just sent to the cinemas in the mail, and the projectionists load them into the carousel themselves.  |  IP: Logged David Zylstra Master Film Handler Posts: 432 From: Novi, MI, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 02-22-2008 03:16 PM                     DVD from AccessIT (formerly Unique Screen Media) - Note that this is a playable DVD looped between shows on a separate video projector (they have not switched us over to using the big digital projectors for their preshow yet). I know Screenvision delivers via satellite to most sites (I know some sites without satellite get content delivered on DVD-Rom) I know a few locations that get content delivered via Internet to their playback server (it is a looped show and the software can be managed through a 3rd party website).  |  IP: Logged Gary Davidson Expert Film Handler Posts: 101 From: Santa Monica, CA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 02-22-2008 05:00 PM                     quote: Thomas Pitt When you say 'preshow', do you mean the slides that show on the screen prior to the main projector starting up? Or do you mean the commercials and policy snipes that often show before the trailers? Commercials.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 02-22-2008 07:28 PM                     NCM, over satellite, just as Darryl described.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 02-22-2008 09:27 PM                     35mm from Val Morgan  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 02-23-2008 03:20 PM                     In the garbage!!  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 02-23-2008 03:48 PM                     quote: Thomas Pitt When you say 'preshow', do you mean the slides that show on the screen prior to the main projector starting up? Or do you mean the commercials and policy snipes that often show before the trailers? Many cinemas in the UK run their preshow slides on a simple 35mm slide carousel projector. In this case, the slides are usually just sent to the cinemas in the mail, and the projectionists load them into the carousel themselves. We have had commercial advertising in front of films for years in the UK. Generally all cinemas still run 35mm advertising; either from Pearl & Dean or Carlton Screen Advertising. In terms of pure pre-show (i.e stuff that runs in the auditorium before the advertised start time; many sites run slide advertising, alot run nothing just normal non-sync music. I'm not sure of any sites that run any digital pre-show, most just go into the 35mm advertising at show time.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-23-2008 03:58 PM                     Our local Carmike theater is in the process of getting switched over to a new pre-show system. For now, the theater is still showing Screenvision 35mm slides. Most of the hardware for the new system has been installed. Just a few more tweaks here and there and it will be up and running, and using the Christie CP2000 DLP projectors. I don't know if the pre-show will be running at the same brightness levels as the main feature and trailer pack. Hopefully it won't be the dim "video by Braille" I've seen at certain Cinemark theaters.  |  IP: Logged Ron Curran Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 504 From: Springwood NSW Australia Registered: Feb 2006 posted 02-23-2008 08:09 PM                        My wife Karen has an independent graphic design business. She prepares our pre-show (at reasonable cost) on Premier Pro and we transfer files on a 1GB stick via USB ports to our server at the cinema. then I assemble the files into a play list for showing on our dlp projector. We used to run glass slides on a carbon arc machine, using the butts from the film projectors. Then we ran 35mm slides on a Kodak Carousel, until we changed to the current system which looks great. Karen has also worked for other cinemas, creating on-screen and in-foyer presentations. These can be static, dynamic or full motion. At our cinema, we do not play sound commercials. Our pre-show is mainly for in-house promotion with limited local advertising (maximum 2 minutes). Most trailers are 35mm, very few trailers are yet available on hi-rez files that can be difficult to splice into a show.  |  IP: Logged Peter David Bruce Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: East Anglia -England Registered: Aug 2007 posted 02-24-2008 07:21 AM                    over in the UK we used to have slides provided (35mm photo slides for a carousel projector) BUT since the dawn of the new year this has ceased. Pre-show content like adverts are sent to us by Carlton Advertising (UK company) as 35mm reels which we attach to the front of the feature films. New sets of adverts arrive every thursday and are changed during the day in prep for the new week on friday. all of the ads are made up by hand by carlton, rather loosely onto the reel, and delivered in film cans by a nationwide company, NFT (national film transfer).  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-27-2008 06:15 PM                        Preshow? We don't run no stinkin preshow!  |  IP: Logged

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