NPP Projection Blog

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built show playlists for Black Bag  and Novocaine  (still waiting on pre-show content for Opus ) and a special event playlist for The Iron Giant Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Received additional one sheets for Death of a Unicorn  and new posters for Magazine Dreams and Hurry Up Tomorrow Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Tech'd  Cinema Paradiso  after the final round in theater 3 and took note of the picture and sound quality (both good, save for a very brief moment at 1:58:14 when the top of the frame is cropped for seemingly no reason -- this happens as the main character sits down in a theater -- before opening back up to the full height) and the masking cue is operational and hides the pillar boxing nicely Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Tossed som...

To do this evening/ was completed: Almost all preshow content downloaded and ingested with the exception of the Cults_5min preshow element, which should be uploaded to Drive tonight. Most of the 3/14 A1 playlists have been built. Check trailer list for ones that still need manufacture. Inspected the last three reels of Gladiator. They're in excellent condition. New 35mm letters up on the marquee. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Tech'd the entirety of the Opening Nite program with Desmond, John, Cristina and Kat. All shorts look and sound great. The tech spreadsheet has been updated. - L Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: SuperhumanBody keys ingested - L Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Ingested Novocaine, Iron Giant.  Ingested another program for NSF25 (NoBudge) via the share drive just to keep us on schedule, first three shorts of Closing Nite are also ingesting. More preshow bits ingested - L Outgoing/Shipping (c...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Syracuse MFA and alumni shorts program screening got off to a really rocky start this evening due to the HDMI connection failing to play audio and later video as the show was scheduled to begin. Lillian had tested everything earlier in the day with Kara, the university rep, and between rounds I checked the functionality of the microphone, which worked just fine, only to find that each of these would malfunction when needed. The mic line went dead, despite the tech, and the HDMI connection was giving us picture but no sound at the start of the program. I rewound the film, tried playing it again, but still had no sound. I did this twice more and by the third time the picture had also dropped out. I contacted Lillian and Alec and did some troubleshooting on the desktop for its sound settings which were, apparently, all wrong and not what she had set in the afternoon, leading us to believe the HDMI had completely severed its connectio...

To do this evening/ was completed: Busy, busy day... So, we properly downloaded the new MFA link this morning, which I immediately starting DCPing once I got in, but it is still transcoding. We figured this would happen and that we would have to go on with the OG file that has the editing mistakes (turns out, the students exported their films incorrectly, which makes sense because a lot of them were the wrong aspect ratio and had other editing issues present, some of which are hard to detect unless the actual filmmaker sees them - the kids were on a time crunch), but I wanted to troubleshoot a bit more because it would really suck to go through with the wrong file, so I copied the new file (mov file) to the DCPIII drive, downloaded VLC to the PC in 3/7 since mov files have a hard time playing on Windows without it  (you basically can't play mov files without VLC, not even quicktime anymore, apparently). Anyway, I hooked the PC up to the projector with a hdmi connection, adjusted th...

To do this evening/ was completed: Inspected Pariah. It's in mint condition. On house reels. 3/7 SE playlists built. Chenelle sent over a new file via Dropbox for tomorrow's private screening. When opening the link there's a message that says .mov files are supported but something went wrong, and you're not able to look at the video content of the file. I still went ahead and started downloading it to the desktop. I tried to download it through Free Download Manager as well but the application kept stating "unwanted behavior" when trying to initiate download. Update at end of the night : file "completed" downloading at 46 GB out of 108 GB and I can't seem to download through other applications. Last round T2 did not start as automated. Just noting because I recall something written somewhat recently about that issue being investigated/resolved. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Recei...

To do this evening/ was completed: Staff screenings have been emailed out, blocked on the calendar and scheduled on the LMS. We're looking good on content for this week and the next, but for this upcoming week, I've got a few more notes below (some of which are also mentioned in more detail in the weekly update from today). NOTE: We will need to really keep up with content, transfers, and local ingests as we have A LOT of movies on right now, including special/private events. T1 is maxing out, and we have special events in T1 for three days straight, this Monday - Weds, so we can delete each film off the server once they're done. Theatres 5, 4, 3 and 1 have the least space right now. Can't wait until we're done with The Brutalist ...goodness gracious. Deleted a few other SE features and Dog Man (kept this in T5 for the weekend). Wicked should be ingesting to T4 just fine now (it was blocked before due to storage). Weekly Update has been sent out. Please confirm that...