Set Playlist Properties; Add Start Offset (Virtual Black Leader) - Sony LMT-300 User Manual

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To create a New Playlist, tap Menu, tap Shows and then
tap Manage Shows. The MANAGE SHOWS pane
appears.
To add a new Show Playlist, tap New. The CREATE
PLAYLIST popup appears.
Title
Delete
Sub-Playlist
Content
Commands
The default Title for a new SPL is the current Date/Time
(YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss). The SPL Title can be
changed in Properties.

Set Playlist Properties

To set the Playlist
Properties, tap Properties.
The PLAYLIST
PROPERTIES popup
appears.
PLAYLIST PROPERTIES
contains descriptive
information about the SPL.
When you tap either Title
(limited to 64 characters)
or Description (limited to
512 characters), an on-
screen keyboard appears.
Tap to set the information and then tap Enter to close the
keyboard. To set the Playlist Type, tap Type and then tap
to make your selection from the list.
New
Close
Properties
Add
Cancel
Save
Title
Type
Cancel
Description
Apply
Once information has been set in PLAYLIST
PROPERTIES, tap Apply and the popup will close.
Note: Setting of the Projection Type, a manual operation,
is separate from setting the correct projector FUNCTION,
i.e., a FUNCTION that is identified as a 3D FUNCTION.
To insure that 3D content presentation is successful the
first Playlist Element in a 3D SPL should be a FUNCTION
appropriate to the 3D Projection Type.

Add Start Offset (Virtual Black Leader)

In film, black leader is used to provide a brief interval
between different content. This often is used simply to
provide pacing to the sequence of content being presented,
e.g., between trailers or between the last trailer and the
feature start.
In Digital Cinema, "black" can be either the absence of the
playback of any Content (virtual black
presentation or it can be actual black content supplied as a
CPL included in the DCP. Virtual Black is realized by
creating a Start Offset for the following Content Element.
When creating a Start Offset, provision is made for
establishing a duration of the of the offset. When Black is
actual content, its duration is of a predetermined length and
the Content Type should be "transitional
To add a Start Offset to the Playlist, tap Content, tap either
the Scroll Up
or Scroll Down
locate Black, tap Black to select, and then tap Add. The
ENTER GAP DURATION popup appears.
Seconds
Minutes
Hours
Accept
The duration of the Start Offset (virtual Black Leader) is
set using the ENTER GAP DURATION popup. This
duration is an absolute value and adjusts the start time of
the following Playlist Element in relation to the end time
of the preceding Playlist Element. To enter a value, tap the
target, i.e., Hours, Minutes, or Seconds, and then tap (or
touch-and-hold) either the Plus or Minus to
1.The virtual Black Leader is created by electronically
muting the image output from the Content playback sub-
system (Media Block). The Start Offset (virtual Black
Playlist Element) appears green in the Content list and in
the subsequent Playlist.
2.Transitional Content is usually described as "extremely
short content (1 to 15 seconds) separating unrelated com-
positions".
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