Most screen-scheduling software answers one question: what loops right now? A movie program asks different ones. What’s showing Friday? Is the long weekend different? And what should the screen do when the credits roll? Cloud Cinema Pro schedules like a cinema, because that’s what it’s for.
Program the season, not just the night
Lay sessions out on a calendar the way you plan a season: Friday flicks every week through summer, a one-off premiere in March, school-holiday matinees at 11am. A recurring series is set up once and runs for months — and when one date is different, you change only that date. Per-occurrence exceptions swap the title on Boxing Day or skip the week the oval is booked, and the rest of the series never notices.
Playback modes that know what a film is
This is where movie-first stops being a slogan. Every scheduled block declares how it plays:
- Play once, then hold — the cinema default. The feature runs top to credits, then the screen holds. It does not start the movie again to an emptying lawn.
- Loop — signage behaviour, there when you actually want it: daytime notices, menu boards, the sponsor loop while gates are open.
- Play once, end early — when the content finishes, the session wraps itself up instead of padding out to the scheduled end time.
Each block also carries its own video scale mode — fit, zoom or stretch — so a scope feature and a square social clip both land on screen exactly as intended.
Intermission belongs to the film
Interval isn’t a scheduling trick you rebuild for every session. A feature film carries its own intermission — the point in the runtime and the length of the break — as a property of the film itself. Schedule that film on any date, on any screen, and interval happens where it should.
Playlists still earn their keep
The hours around showtime belong to loops: visitor information through the afternoon, sponsor slides as the crowd arrives. Playlists cycle for as long as their block runs, then hand over cleanly when the evening program starts. And when the night deserves a human at the wheel — trailers, welcome, feature, in order — step up to a cinema sequence, the run sheet an operator drives live.
Everything you schedule is cached to the screen ahead of time, pulled from a media library you manage entirely from the browser. Set the season, and it’s simply on.