Cinema Application

Written by Kevin Cloutier on Jul 11, 2019 2:57 pm

Name	Version	Release Date	Size	MD5
Cinema.jar - Update Project	v7.2	Mar 10 2025	535.1 KB	f296631e1dca3fcd5d89f39d2de0387e
Cinema.JAR Release Notes	v7.1	Sep 23 2024	621.5 KB	bcdaec5eef1f1f852b7cba13a927a9f6
Cinema.JAR Manual	v1	Jun 21 2021	1.7 MB	dfc6ea373101fb93e4366d26308e2476
Event Manager	v2.0	Nov 07 2024	528.2 KB
Event Manager MSI (Windows Install)	v3.0	Nov 07 2024	1.6 MB
Event Manager Manual	v1	Dec 18 2020	1.1 MB	99817b47cdb329e3eeabead4caa45c22
Cinema.JNIOR - Update Project (Series 3)	v2.47	Dec 09 2019	72.6 KB	973bd73a6df7b1845f981c87d6addf37
Cinema.jnior Manual (Series 3)	v1	Jun 15 2012	1.1 MB	ed8c18bf161cfd91b463ff8af2c493f3
Cinema.JNIOR Release Notes (Series 3)	v2.47	Dec 09 2019	60.5 KB	8d32f6a6fa60b880efcd2dfda0adf147

CINEMA.JAR is an advanced digital cinema automation program that runs on the JNIOR to provide central control functionality for a theatre implementing a digital cinema system. The Cinema program can also be used for other audio-visual applications because of its ability to control both I/O on the JNIOR and to send commands to devices on the network.

Controls Other Devices

Cinema.Jar software enables the JNIOR to interface with a variety of systems and devices by running ‘macros’ on the JNIOR. Devices that can be controlled include practically any device. INTEG has built-in some standard commands for some widely used devices, but by adding a RAW Ethernet or RAW Serial device, the user can add any command needed to the JNIOR macros. A sample of devices include:

Barco, Christie, NEC digital projectors
NCM, Screenvision, Broadsign and other preshow systems
Dolby, USL, QSC and other sound processors
Scalers
3D Systems
Unique devices via a RAW Ethernet connection
Unique devices via a RAW Serial connection

The core JNIOR provides the capability to work with various digital cinema servers (Doremi, GDC, Christie, Dolby, Barco, Qube) to allow the JNIOR to act as GPIO (General Purpose IO) to control the lighting levels (low, medium, high), masking curtains (scope, flat), sound, doors and various other items. The digital cinema server sends commands to the JNIOR to ‘pulse’ its relays to change the desired function.

When you add the Cinema.Jar application, it allows the JNIOR to become a central automation device capable of interacting with the digital cinema server, preshow systems, projectors, sound controllers, scalers, and various other industry devices and systems. The application integrates these devices and systems with the JNIOR via the Ethernet and/or serial ports. To see how to set up the serial connection for Cinema.Jar, click here.

Central to Cinema.jar is its ability to execute ‘macros’ on the JNIOR. A macro consists of one or more ‘actions’. An action can control a JNIOR relay or send a command to one of the external devices. The external ‘devices’ and ‘macros’ are easily configured by using the JNIOR Support Tool.

Once the macros have been configured, the JNIOR is very flexible in providing a variety of methods to trigger a macro:

The digital cinema server or other client can send the ‘run macro name’ command.
A predefined ‘message’ can be sent by the client that will trigger a user-configurable macro name.
The JNIOR digital inputs can be configured to ‘trigger’ a specific macro when the input goes “high” (transitions from “off” to “on”).
A macro can be ‘scheduled’ to execute on boot-up of the JNIOR or at a specific time of day.
A macro can be triggered based on a ‘logical expression’.
The ‘switches’ on the JNIOR Control Panel can trigger a macro.