NPP Projection Blog

To do this evening/ was completed: Quiet night on my end.  Presentation Issues: wall sconce in T5 left side temporarily flickered a bit but stopped. Did not last long at all, seemed like a slight hiccup during a lights transition, plus this was when cleaning lights were on.  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ingested Air Bud to the LMS.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Inspected all of the SOF print, Martial Arts of Shaolin, which is fine enough condition but there's quite a few splices in the last reel. Please see report.  Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes. Updated Scream 7 formula ever so slightly.  Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: Additional Notes:

To do this evening/ was completed: I've been noticing that the tape used to secure the leaders of prints during shipping is being left on a lot of the time, this was the case with most reels of Pulp Fiction and I've seen it with several other prints inspected by different people. Please do not do this. Always discard this tape when inspecting the film, and use new tape to secure the leaders when packing up. Do not leave any tape on the print other than what's there for labeling. Thanks. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Pulp Fiction went very nicely for a nearly sold out T1. I ended up playing this at 7.8 on the 500 and 7.5 on the 750. Definitely needed a bit of a boost from 7.0. All reels are rewound on house reels and I cleaned the projectors after the show. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Martial Arts of Shaolin print arrived, it's in booth 1. Outgoing/Shipping (conte...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Extended keys for  BLKNWS  were delivered this evening and uploaded to the LMS and theater 4 Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Double checked all cues and cross referenced the schedule on the LMS (all overlapping rounds have been highlighted in red) Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Bicycles remained in the way of the Pillion poster throughout the evening so this will have to be removed over the weekend Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projection cart by entrance?: Yes Additional Notes:

To do this evening/ was completed: All Soderbergh intros should be 5.0 here. Looked at the last ones we'll need. - LH Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist:  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ingested to t3 and went through all the content for the Dark Shorts program, tech'd everything, built a final playlist I can go through with Cristina before the show. Everything looks/sounds good. Wanted to get eyes on it all early since we made these DCPs. - LH Ingested and built the playlist for Crazy Stupid Love private event, tech'd everything including the birthday video. This is all set now. Brought the drive down so Jack could start on Air Bud.  Tech'd Hank's Saloon. Playlist sorted. - LH Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): We are waiting to receive a key extension for Blknews, the first set of which will expire Sunday 3am. This should be a quick fix and in any case, we are fine for tomorrow. Apologies for not catchi...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: A couple of manual starts delayed the pre-shows by a few minutes but there were no other delays out of the ordinary this evening Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ganja & Hess screening in theater 3 went smoothly  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Posters for Lee Cronin's The Mummy , Is God Is , and additional one sheets for Undertone  were delivered and stored behind 3/7 Ordering/Receiving (content): Crazy, Stupid, Love  finished converting to DCP this evening and I began ingesting it to the LMS (this should finish transferring overnight and the playlist can be built tomorrow) Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection:  Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Recycling was tossed this evening Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projection cart by entr...

To do this evening/ was completed: Pillion leaves tomorrow! - L I've sent emails about this and mentioned it in blogs as well as in person, but we should not be using HandBrake anymore since DCP-o-matic can do everything HandBrake can without encoding down the quality of the video. There are detailed instructions for using DCP-o-matic to scale video to eliminate letter/pillarboxing (for both scope and flat films), burn in subtitles , and change the audio track in the manual, sections linked above. Please read all of this through completely and let me know if anything is unclear. -A  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Updated The Bride playlists with 15min Frankenstein preshow. Scheduled missing shows for next Weds/Thurs. - LH  Trailer Updates: Femme photographers trailer sounds good at 4.0! - L Special Events/ AV set up: Ganja and Hess all sorted for tonight. Updated playlist. - LH DCP'd the special birthday video (preshow) for the private event for Crazy Stupid Lo...