NPP Projection Blog

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...

To do this evening/ was completed: Inspected Creed, very good condition, on house reels. Time To Kill went smoothly. Have to say that the print looked fantastic. Back on shipping reels. Presentation Issues: MOD called for cleaning lights in T2 which I mistook as a call for T3, so I brought the cleaning lights up and muted the processor in 3 during Wuthering Heights. They quickly called again to tell me what had happened and we rewound the film by four minutes. Apologies. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: Additional Notes:

To do this evening/ was completed: I tested it earlier today and Plex is running just fine now. Not sure what happened, but we'll need to make sure we're only pulling from our bank of movies.  Had our cinema meeting today and we're in good hands right now, waiting on a few things for the later week, but we're in solid shape right now. Scheduled and sent out staff screenings including the encore screenings of Sirat.  Ran Ferris Bueller off the PC for staff early this morn. No issues in T3 this first leg of the day.   Deluxe was not ingesting DCPs this morning, which was curious. Essentially, it kept vanishing on me and wouldn't ingest anything to the LMS, but ingesting to an IMS was fine. I resaved the ftp info for Deluxe/Screenwriter, rebooted, everything started working just fine again.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Double checked the playlist for A Time to Kill  - added the masking cue for Film Scope so that the curtain is flush against th...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Plex gave me some trouble at Trees this evening (specifically the Prospect Park account) as films could be selected and played but would then pause within moments of starting. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting the AppleTV as a fix box but this did nothing to resolve the connectivity issue. I ended up just switching to the Williamsburg account which, despite commercial breaks, played the content without any interruptions Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Make-Out with Violence  intro, screening, and Zoom Q&A went very smoothly in theater 3 this evening Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Received Crazy, Stupid, Love on (UK) blu-ray and began converting it to DCP this evening Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes Marquee updated?:...

To do this evening/ was completed: T3 zoom Q&A set up. Invited Cristina and Will to the meeting so check your inbox. Speaker is set up with mic, speaker currently turned off. Speaker is from T2 so can get put back after show. Tested mic and zoom audio, all set. Also looked at the feature itself, looks and sounds good. New 35mm marquee letters up. Downloading Ferris Bueller feature DCP to share drive for tech screening tomorrow. Please ingest and send to T3 tonight. DCP downloading on Jack's profile, so don't exit out of that. Lost Boys ingested to LMS. Presentation Issues: T3 server went down today before we opened. Usual restart brought the server back online. -Casey from DMS asked me to try a few things with the server offline which I did. These didn't reveal much, only that the web controls are inaccessible with the server in this state yet it remains active on the network which I confirmed by "pinging" the IP. Basically things we already knew. It's loo...

To do this evening/ was completed: Slow night aside from Perfect Blue. Scheduled coming week in LMS. 5000 Fingers of Dr T ingested. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: Additional Notes: