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Kaleidescape announces 'Custom Introductions'

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In case you missed it a few weeks ago, Kaleidescape introduced a set of custom movie introductions that let you create a real theatrical experience at home.

You get 6 very nicely animated introductions, all in Digital Dolby 5.1... these are different styles of 2-3 minute "And Now For Our Featured Presentation" intros.

You also get nice DD and DTS intros too, the 5-10 second sound "sweeps" and little audio intros.

And for a real theatrical experience, you get a set of about 80 "movie buff" trivia questions, terminology slides, oscar winner slides, etc. These have music behind them, they fade in and out, and they actually randomize to appear in different orders each time.

The idea of course, is that you create a custom script where you can organize a timed set of trivia questions, then maybe a short feature, a few previews/trailers, then a custom introduction, followed by your movie.

They're beautifully done... created by Digital Forge, who does many of those similar intro discs you see advertised in magazines. These have been customized for Kaleidescape with some nice little touches.

Kaleidescape can arrange to have your custom intro screens customized so you can have your family's name or the name of your home theater placed right into the animation.
 
one quibble

One thing they did oddly with this disc... the very cool DTS and Digital Dobly intros/trailers are 4:3 instead of 16:9 which is odd. I wish they had been able to get the 16:9 versions of these.

The rest of the intros disc (the animated intros, trivia cards, etc.) are all 16:9.
 
I wish they were in HD. They are not that big and would be the ideal things to offer as a test for online distributed HD content. The only real issue is that each one would have to be custom rendered.
 
What I would like to see is the ability to just show one of the introductions before every movie instead of having to create a script for each one. Having to do the scripts is OK for demo purposes, but at home it would be annoying to have to create one for every movie!
 
iQAlex said:
What I would like to see is the ability to just show one of the introductions before every movie instead of having to create a script for each one. Having to do the scripts is OK for demo purposes, but at home it would be annoying to have to create one for every movie!

Check out my suggestion in this thread.
 
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