All our show packages feature a soundtrack with narration in English. For customers who wish to present our shows narrated in other languages, please read this.

We provide a copy of the script/production notes book on each show's data disc as an Adobe® PDF file. The PDF can be printed using any computer/printer, but if you want us to print and bind a color copy for you, we will!

These are the distribution discs that contain a show's script books and promotional graphics. They also contain both single frame and multi-panel images, as well as masks -- a great deal for those facilities with slide show packages wanting to upgrade to digital, or get replacement slides made.

We suggest that customers make their own soundtrack tapes using our show's distribution disc as the audio source. But we can make soundtrack dubs too.

For multi-track tapes, be sure to specify the format: ADAT (S-VHS for Alesis, Fostex) or DTRS (Hi-8 for Tascam DA-88, Sony, etc.). We'll record the stereo audio at 48 kHz and put left/right audio on tracks 1/2, SMPTE time code on audio track 8 (and the TC track), unless you indicate otherwise.

We've programmed our shows with Sky-Skan's SPICE Automation^® 3.x in our studios, using our standard Left-Center-Right dissolve-pair configuration for our slide projectors. Planetarians can take advantage of all the programming work we put in by obtaining our Automation Data package, which contains the SPICE cue file, tray lists, and a SMPTE-striped soundtrack tape.

The concept is: you'll recreate our basic show in your theater, even though your projector systems are undoubtedly labeled and arrayed differently. You'll load your slide trays based on our lists; edit our cue file if the device names you've chosen differ from ours; then load it, sit back and watch the show on the minimal set of projectors. You'll see what is supposed to come up and when. Then you'll pop the panoramas out of the dissolve trays, for example, and simply edit the cue file to indicate the revised projector; fade rates and SMPTE times remain the same. This should save hours of programming and typing, eliminating guesswork about how a scene should look and when it should happen.

(Even for non-SPICE users, the printout of the SMPTE timings and generic screen information should save hours of programming time, if you have a SMPTE-based automation system.)

NOTE: SPICE 4 users, read this.

For multi-track tapes, be sure to specify the format (ADAT or DTRS). We'll record the stereo audio on track 1 (left) and 2 (right), SMPTE time code (30fps, non-drop) on audio track 8 (and the TC track), at 48 kHz, unless you indicate otherwise.