Customized introduction screen

dtprkr said:

Hello, hopefully some of you will be so kind to help me, if at all possible. I have a dedicated home theater with a projector and 110 inch screen. I've found that I can download a customized splash screen (with family theater name) in MP4 format. I would like to show this 10second file before all my movies start. How can I combine this file along with the movies to play on my AppleTv (using iTunes) in continuous motion without a large visual interruption?? Would setting up a seperate playlist for every movie have to been done? I use Handbrake and MKV for all my movies.

Thanks,
dtprkr

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I was going to say you'd have to merge the starter to each movie you have, but a playlist might work. Arduous though. A playlist for every movie? Wow. I'd be cracking 2000 playlists to do that.

Nonetheless, you could also tell iTunes where to start playing each movie also, reducing the lead up to it actually starting, and hence reducing any gap between your promo footage and the movie.

Also, every time you wanted to play a movie, you'd have to enter the playlist and start playing the promo footage first. A lot of clicking when you think this is for every movie.

A more seamless result would be to merge the promo and the movie into one file. A lot of work. But if that were the case, i think I'd use mp4tools to do it.

I wonder if this can be done using iMovie?

It could but extremely slow.

If the movies & intro promo are already h264, I think mo4tools will stitch them together fairly quickly. Haven't done it mind you, but it doesn't re transcode the files. I think the longest watt would be the stitching/writing of the file. IMovie is a dog for speed unless your playing with small files, not a 2 hr movie. That I have tried.

Did you try the playlist idea? It wouldn't be too bad to use the playlist method if you knew you were going to watch a specific movie beforehand and you could set up a playlist "Feature Presentation" or something along those lines. That would be much less work than creating a playlist for each movie or putting an intro into each movie when you only want to watch the intro part when you have guests over.

Also, where did you find/how did you make your intro? I have thought about doing the same thing for myself.

No advice other than this thread made me think of this ;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoom6ZwZ21Q

dtprkr said:

I used ivipid.

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Interesting site. Thanks.