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Hi, apologies in advance for what is maybe a long winded question.

We have Crestron and have for years ‘started the Cinema Room up together with the auto launch of a movie themes playlist which you can listen to while everyone is sitting and settling down. Fairly simple stuff because the Crestron simply selected and powered up the Linn DS in the room and using it’s auto play feature it just played whatever was in its playlist (which was the movie themes). When the K was installed a lot of things changed including some re-programming and they forgot to reinstate that Linn ‘bit’. I can just get them to do that but it occurs to me that with the K that maybe there is a way of the Crestron powering it on and then playing the music or maybe better still a pre-defined set of movie theme clips with music. I know nothing about scripts but know they exist but before I get too excited I am not sure how easy it is for Crestron to start things up on K and select a pre defined script?

I would expect that to be easy enough but is it?

Or is there even a movie themes ‘movie/programme’ to buy and select in the store?.
As a example the playlist had things like Indiana Jones, Superman themes, Star Wars, Bridge over River Kwai, etc etc big sounding, very recognisable movie theme.
Ideally they want to be normal tune length. We also had the famous Pearl & Dean music in between each track which everyone seemed to love. The oldies at least.

The added benefit being able to see the scene as well on K would be cool but just the audio still works.

I thought I would ask the collective wisdom as I myself disappear down the into the digging around pit of despair seeing if I can work it out myself.

Am I wasting my time or is this easy?
 
This is fairly easy to do once you understand Scripts on K.

I have done something similar at times myself. The closest example is I made a Movie Night script that would first play the Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague concert and then the actual movie that we wanted to watch.

Should be easy to start using your control system as all you do is send a play_script command to the player with the name of the script.

John
 
JohnJ said:
This is fairly easy to do once you understand Scripts on K.

I have done something similar at times myself. The closest example is I made a Movie Night script that would first play the Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague concert and then the actual movie that we wanted to watch.

Should be easy to start using your control system as all you do is send a play_script command to the player with the name of the script.

John
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Thanks John. I had the got the impression that it would be fairly straightforward. I will start reading up on scripts etc.

The zimmer movie had crossed my mind after posting last night funnily enough. I will also look to see if there are any movie music documentaries that lend themselves to this. I.e. something with shorter excerpts of the catchy bits :)

Thanks again.
 
Just to get you started, the tab to do Scripts is found using IP address/scripts of your server.

John
 
That's a cool idea!

If you don't mind, can I ask here about script/scene permanence when a title is update or shuffled in and out of storage? Is any part of the script or scene list stored in "cloud" and available when a removed tile is re-downloaded?I recall updates being a bit of a hiccup and was cautious about investing much effort in scenes and scripts knowing I shuffle titles often.
 
The scripts and custom scenes can be saved to a computer and reloaded whenever needed. These can also be shared between users - see the following thread/resources page:

Scripting & Favorite Scenes

A place to discuss and share scripts, favorite scene markers, etc.
www.kscapeowners.com www.kscapeowners.com

Resources

www.kscapeowners.com www.kscapeowners.com

John
 
Unless my experiment was misguided, you can delete a move for which you have scenes and they will be available when you re-download the same version of that title. Scenes aren't tied to the same instance of the movie. That's a relief.
 
Are your talking custom scenes marked by users? I haven’t tried deleting and re-downloading movies with scenes that I marked recently but in the past there have been cases when I have lost scenes (but not always).

The one time you will lose custom scenes is when you do an “Update” from the Store. You will lose and custom scenes and the Store will warm you this this will happen.

John
 
JohnJ said:
Are your talking custom scenes marked by users? I haven’t tried deleting and re-downloading movies with scenes that I marked recently but in the past there have been cases when I have lost scenes (but not always).

The one time you will lose custom scenes is when you do an “Update” from the Store. You will lose and custom scenes and the Store will warm you this this will happen.

John
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This is what I was trying to test out. I had a title with some scenes I created. Deleted the title. Re-downloaded. The scenes are still there.

The download log did say "previously downloaded" so perhaps I didn't give the system enough time to "forget it," but I did have to check the title under the download menu.

Scripts are a cool idea until you realize the time it takes to construct scenes, or even to re-create chapters. I just wanted to make sure that all that effort would survive my shuffling of titles until I have a more generous amount of storage to accommodate.

An older title might be less at risk for updates but an HD-to-4K upgrade would wipe out the scenes. So I will proceed with caution.

I did back-up my scenes though, just in case.
 
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