Sharing Favoite Scenes - a tutorial

[JohnJ]

Yes, it all still works. You can make Scenes and Scripts on the Strato. Also, we encourage you to post any Scripts you create to this forum So other users can download.

Good luck!

John

 

[Houston]

thanks John

 

[audioguy123]

The only descriptions I can find on how to create or modify scripts do not seem to be accurate. It shows the home page as follows and that is not what my homepage looks like: What am I doing incorrectly. Someone sent me the correct way to do it a year or so ago but I can not locate it.

Assistance requested.

 

[Kevin D]

For the Strato, browse to the IP address of the unit with /scripts on the end.

IE: 192.168.1.15/scripts

 

[ht guy]

@josh,
When I try to import your scenes file (realizing it's 3 years old,) my system reports "This list does not contain any scenes from movies that are in the library of this Kaleidescape System. Please import some of these movies first or choose another list of scenes."
Pretty sure that's not a correct statement, so thinking it has to do with versions? Even so...
Should it still work?

 

[JohnJ]

Not Josh, but which Scene or Script file are you trying to import? (s it correct that you are importing to a Strato/Terra?

John

 

[ht guy]

@JohnJ this fille (from 2019?) is what I was trying to import.
And yes to a Strato/Terra, and yes, using scene (not script) import function.
Thanks.

 

[JohnJ]

I think that these are mostly DVD scenes but I will check tonight. None of these would be 4K so you would at least need the HD versions on your Strato.

I will let you know what I find out.

John

 

[ht guy]

Thx John.
I'm 2/3 4K, so no worries.
I should have known with a Nov 19 file.

 

[JohnJ]

I checked and those scenes are all from physical discs and mainly DVD’S. These were actually created in 2010. The 2019 update occurred when I transferred the files over from the old forum 1.0 to the new forum 2.0 created by @josh in that timeframe. You would need the actual discs loaded in a Premier server to be able to load these scenes.

All the newer files on the resource page should have show whether they are for Strato 4K or Premier systems. This applies to both Script files Or Scene files.

John

 

[randman]

I'm trying to get the big picture here regarding importing scenes and scripts files. I see it's possible to import files containing scenes that others have define. It's also possible to import scripts that others have created. These scripts can point to scenes that the script author created in their system.

My question is: if I import a script, which contains scenes from a movie that I already own, but I don't have the script's scenes in my system yet, will the script import process automatically create the new scenes? Will I be able to then see those scenes (with the heart symbol) when I look at the scenes associated with the movie?

 

[JohnJ]

My question is: if I import a script, which contains scenes from a movie that I already own, but I don't have the script's scenes in my system yet, will the script import process automatically create the new scenes? Will I be able to then see those scenes (with the heart symbol) when I look at the scenes associated with the movie?

Yes, a script will automatically mark scenes in all movies that you have on your system.

John

 

[randman]

Yes, a script will automatically mark scenes in all movies that you have on your system.

John

Great! Thanks. That's what I was assuming. It would be kind of silly to have to make manually make the scenes before a script can be imported.

 

[House72]

Hello All - When I am trying to import favorites scenes from other members (I know I have the movies), I get this message. Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong?

 

[JohnJ]

You would get this error if you are trying to import a script file as a scene file. Are you sure the file isn’t a script?

John

 

[House72]

You are 100% correct. How can I import from a script file?

 

[HCS]

You are 100% correct. How can I import from a script file?

http://my-kaleidescape.local/scripts

 

[House72]

Thank you

 

[DrNeal]

All -

Don't forget to download and re-import the various scene files you find here on the forums regularly. As your movie collection grows, re-importing the same file can result in new matches between your collection and the collection of the person that made the scene file.

Your system doesn't store imported scene marks for movies you don't own, so you must try re-importing scene collections for new movies you add.

As I buy new movies and add them, I reimport Jeff's scene collection and often get new matches.

--josh

YES - as you'll see elsewhere in this directory, you can make LOTS of favorite scenes for a movie. Here's what's happening that's causing yours to keep overwriting eachother... (I think this is discussed over in the Feature Request area)


Each time you make a favorite scene, you DON'T need to go to your web interface, but you DO need to use your remote to put a temporary name on the scene.

Here's the sequence to do it properly:

1. Get to the point in the movie where you want the start of the scene marker.
2. Press "Favorite Scene Start" (hopefully your installer coded this onto your remote. If not, you can find it by pressing "Info" and using the onscreen popup by paging over to the right a few screens, but that will be tedious)
3. Get to end of the scene
4. Press "Favorite Scene End"
5. Now you have to name it. Press "Details" to pop up the movie details page. In the menu along the left that has the "Play Movie", "Play Disc", "Play Trailer", "Return" commands, you want to go down to "Name Favorite Scene"... then you'll see a choice called "Favorite Scene" (that's the scene you just made). Select that scene and hit your Enter button on your remote. Now you can enter a name (if you have a keyboard in your AV system or an onscreen keyboard in your Crestron setup) OR if you're like most people without an AV keyboard you can just hit enter again and it gives it a temporary name "Scene 1" (with incrementing numbers each time you do this.) You'll fix the name later.
6. Now repeat - go back to step #1 above for the rest of the scenes.
7. When you're ALL done, you go to your web interface to give the scenes proper names...
   1. go to web console
   2. choose "Movies" tab
   3. Select "Favorite Scenes" from the pulldown menu
   4. Find your scenes ("Scene 1", "Scene 2", etc.), click them, and you can rename them.

If you don't do Step #5 above, then you'll only be able to have one favorite scene per movie, each new one will overwrite the last one since it is simply called "Favorite Scene". We've been asking Kaleidescape to make Step #5 unnecessary by automatically adding the scene numbers each time you make a favorite scene. Stay tuned...

Some of us like to have a laptop open WHILE making the scenes so we can enter a name right after making a scene while it's fresh in your mind... your call.

THEN when you're all done and have a good collection of named scenes, you can share your file following the instructions here in this thread.

--josh

That was a great post. Where can I find scripts to download and how do I incorporate them into a current script?
Thanks!

 

[JohnJ]

There are scripts posted in this sub-forum and also on the Resources page:

Resources

www.kscapeowners.com

John