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We work with a variety of intro templates that can be found on various stock sites, like Envato. They typically require apps like Adobe After Effects to render custom content into the template, but it's quite effective. You can search for a variety of known studio intros or work with logo reveals that are completely different from those found at the head of major motion pictures. There are also some people who you can pay to have intros built in the style of known studio intros. We couldn't find a Marvel style template for a student film festival, but found someone who had the ability to make one for us for about $50. It was incredibly similar to the comic book style Marvel intro - the kids were confused at first as this Marvel style intro began and then they lost their minds when they realize it was the title of the festival. They are out there. Just need to Google ;-)

That's a good catch. I don't think there is a volume control for slideshows. All of the volume controls are in playbook in module volumes. I'll add slideshow controls there. Thanks for letting me know about this.

@Matt - Regarding slideshows, we can't seem to figure out what commands the volume of the module. There isn't a volume setting in the module itself and there isn't a volume setting in the Playback section of the app settings. Thought maybe it was tied to Trivia, but it's not. Seems to come through at about 50% volume or something lower than 100%. If this isn't directly settable in the app, is this something we can manually "tweak" in the app folder outside of Kodi?

Hello, We’ve run into a portability issue when creating sequences in PreShow Experience on a desktop or non-media-server player. Currently, PreShow stores all media references as absolute file paths tied to the original machine. This means that if we move a PreShow project folder to another server or workstation, the sequence breaks because the media paths still point to the original device location. This creates unnecessary extra steps when deploying sequences for: Short films Theatre intros Touring productions Multi-server installations Instead of simply moving the PreShow project folder and relinking a single base directory, we have to manually update or recreate paths due to the absolute references. Requested FeatureIt would be extremely helpful if PreShow could support relative file paths for media content. For example: When setting a content directory in PreShow, the software would treat that folder as the base path. All media within the sequence would then be referenced relative to that base folder, rather than to an absolute system location. When moving the project to a new machine, we would only need to update the base content directory once. BenefitsImproved portability between systems Easier deployment to media servers Cleaner project structure Reduced setup time for touring or distributed environments Fewer broken media links This enhancement would significantly streamline workflow and reduce errors when moving projects between machines. Thank you for considering this request.

I am a bit lost on how to do even basic surround in Davinci Resolve. i was able to doa faux oen by duplicating the fronts to the back but if there is an AI tool out there i might do that. When i get to that point though, i may review some youtube videos on resolve. There has to be an easy way to sort of program sound.

Those are Called MPAA ratings. The classic ratings version can be found here https://preshowexperience.com/files/file/94-mpaa-classic/ There's different styles you can download to fit your taste.

I was working on a customized Intro with Davinci Resolve. The mixing of the atmos sound was quite time consuming, why I lost motivation at some point. But I will give it another try and add a voice and test, if it still sounds super cheap. If not, I will maybe be motivated to continue on it

Yea but just the simple stuff Warner Brothers and other studios intros changed to my theater name , simpler stuff like that

In my first test, the system worked the way I initially intended: it grouped trivia by decade, rating, and genre, and selected content based on those matches. That part was fine and worked as expected for testing. However, once I started adding more detailed movie-specific trivia, it quickly became clear that this approach was pretty boring in practice. The system always chose the “best” match first, and because many movies have large trivia packs, it would end up playing all the trivia for a single movie before moving on to the next best match, and then the next, and so on. To fix that, I changed the behavior. In the current version, the system plays a slide from the best-matching folder, then skips that folder for a random number of slides (3–6). It then does the same with the second-best folder, and continues down the list. This creates the feel of randomness, while still giving higher priority to more relevant content. I had forgotten that I made this change until I went back and reviewed the code, which is why the behavior didn’t line up with how I described it, and wasn't what you were expecting.

Currently working out a series of videos for theater intros. Using Unreal Engine. Slow going but I hope to make one for every genre. At least I have one. I customized the Regal Cinemas 1990's roller coaster to my theater. Used some AI to change some wording in the narration and Davinci resolve to edit the text on the marque scroller. Gruelling work as unreal Engine is hard to learn. Nothing is straight forward. Everything is a task. But I hope in the end it looks great. Doing an old West town for westerns. A spooky gothic castle on a hill for horror. I plan to do a parody or homage to the Disney Castle for family movies. But I really like watching the playlists on YouTube that feature simple CGI that reminds me of bowling alley animations. That is probably more easily done now with Unreal. I will probably sparingly use AI but for home theater intros it seems tempting. But AI programs seem expensive. Anyone else have customized intros?

After testing more i found out that only one works at a time if it has no rating the year will work if no ratings or year the genre will work 🤔

Ok after heavy testing, rating slides work flawlessly every time , But genre and year never do just random slides even tho the log shows them scoreing correctly.

Subjective, yes. But here's a few "scary movies": The Conjuring 1 and 2 The Ring Insidious Presence The Exorcist Poltergeist

All my movies with Atmos or DTS:X audio have "atmos" and "dtsx" in the filename respectively. PSE has always been able to pick the correct audio bumper accordingly. That's the easiest way to do it currently.

I setup folders by genre so basically horror themed trailers, action themed, superhero themed, etc. Then I just create sequences based off genre. At some point I hope we can add nfo files to local trailers for metadata such as genres, aspect ratio and others. That would help lower the amount of sequences I have to make.

ffmpeg had the functionality, but Kodi didn't update to a version with it. I don't think it was a simple replace to update it, so it took them a while. I wouldn't change the names of your movies. I'm not going to remove the functionality for the file names, so having them named that way will guarantee that they load the appropriate bumper. There's no need for you to risk kodi losing any info for your movies by changing the name. I don't think Auro 3d will be included, just Atmos and DTS:X. I've been slowly working on new stuff for PreShow, and hope to make some huge improvements this year.

Jungle with Daniel Radcliff Maybe wouldnt say it is scary but very disturbing

I thought that ffmpeg used to recognize Atmos tracks one or two years ago. However, I allready wondered why my atmos bumbers are not played anymore. (Maybe I also had a few files with an atmos flag in the name). I would love it to automatically detect atmos, auro3d and dtsx tracks. Is there any news about when Kodi 22 will release? Otherwise it would be a pain to rename all my movies and I am scared that Kodi would detect them as a new file, since it is another filename than before. So I am not sure if I will update the names, but the auto-detection for audio bumpers is one of the biggest reasons why I started using PSE! (Great to hear that you are still working on PSE btw :) )

It looks like Kodi 22 recognizes Atmos and DTS:X. I'll see what I can update when it is official.

Just had a thought though. Ffmpeg may not be good at finding Atmos. Could MediaInfo be packaged in preshow and used to scan the feature to then determine which audio format it is in?

So this sounds more like an issue with Kodi. I suppose the important thing is if you decided to add a tool to search for a list of movies that may be in Atmos, the problem would be in if the user re-encoded with handbrake and changed or compressed the audio tracks(s). I suppose it would be nice if the movies show the appropriate audio bumper, but how would it know how to tell the difference? It seems just using the truehd folder is a surefire way, but I would be glad to make changes (except I don't know if I want to change the filenames manually)

Atmos is a subset of TrueHD. When FFMPEG analyzes the audio, it can only report TrueHD. There are 3 audio formats that can't be recognized. They are Dolby Atmos, DTS-X & Auro-3D. Right now, if you want PreShow to recognize them, you need to add atmos, dtsx, or auro3d to the filename to get them to display properly.

The Haunting (1963) It probably isn't scary for everyone. Scary is subjective as you say. But the Haunting truly sets the mood, practically invented the jump scare, and the director was brilliant at creative use of shots. No blood, no monsters. Because it is the imagination that builds the scariest of all monsters. Fight me

I have noticed that Atmos is never listed in my system. TrueHD is, and according to Google, truehd is atmos. So I simply copied all my atmos bumpers to the Dolby TrueHD folder. If I am mistaken on audio formats, please correct me.

Thank you! This app has made movies so much better!