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Presentation Issues: No 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): I checked the schedule for tomorrow, which is basically all set. I spotted one potential issue with the last round in TH1 ( Knives Out ). The cue sheets and MV's schedule indicate that it should begin at 8:35 for a 9:00 showtime, but it was automated to start at 8:45. The end time in the cue sheets was also 5 minutes off. I fixed it in TMS scheduler and modified the end time in the cue sheets. Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes. Projectors off for the night?: Yes. Projection cart by TH5?: Yes. Nest: Additional Notes: I gave out one CC device for  Knives Out  in TH1.

Presentation Issues: None. A slow and simple night for projection. Lots of cleaning lights going up and down. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): we've got a whole lot of stuff to walk to that UPS drop Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Checked Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): checked tomorrow's cue sheet and scheduler — everything seems to be ok, however on what appears to be Matthew's most recent schedule Jojo Rabbit is listed as the 10:35 show in theater 6, not Lighthouse (which is what we have on cue/scheduler). I checked the website and filmbot, which both have  Lighthouse up for that time   (and I recall some recent Jojo/Light swaps) so I left it as is. Marquee updated?: n/a Posters updated?: n/a Cleaning lights on for the night?: yes Projectors...

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues tonight. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: n/a Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Added basic info for Jumanji. Maintenance/cleaning: Did some more sweeping/vacuuming of booths 1 & 2. Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked for tomorrow and Saturday (11/29 & 11/30). Marquee updated?: Up to date Posters updated?: Up to date Cleaning lights on for the night?: yes Projectors off for the night?: yes Projection cart by TH5?: yes Nest: Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues tonight. Preshow Clips/Playlist: All the animated docs from EVO have been uploaded to TMS. Trailer Updates: n/a Special Events/ AV set up: n/a Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Was finally able to get Celebration  to ingest successfully, it is on screen 3 to be QC'd. ***The correct keys for The Lighthouse  did not get sent over by Deluxe. Their email suggested we reach out to our booker- who would that be in this case? If they aren't in our inbox by the morning this should get followed up on. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Up to date. Maintenance/cleaning: Did some vacuuming in booths 1 and 2, but they aren't fully clean by a long shot. Definitely something we should be doing a bit of every shift. Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Cue sheet for tomorrow (Thurs 11/29) checked. Marquee updat...

Presentation Issues: No issues Preshow Clips/Playlist: I decided that any time we switch the projector lens channel during a show that we should close the dowser on the projector, as the change of lens file is visible especially for scope. In the playlist program a dowser CLOSE cue at the beginning of the usual black slug for masking and lens changes. We've never set a standard for this, but the slug on the Queen & Slim playlist is 8 seconds which I think is a good length. Going forward whenever we are building a playlist for a feature with an aspect ratio other than 1.85, let's make the black slug for lens cues 8 seconds. Program the lens change 1 second after the dowser cue, and put a dowser OPEN cue 2 seconds from the end of the black slug. I've updated all current playlists. -Scheduled Knives Out and Queen & Slim through Thursday 12/5 and updated cues. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering...

Presentation Issues: The side wall lighting in theater 2 does not seem to be coming up during the lights mid cue. Not sure if this is related to the DMS work that happened today. Not a huge problem, but something to look at. ** there was also an issue with an assisted listening device requested by a customer. It was not picking up the signal for Parasite  in theater 7. Michael and I tried a couple different strategies and were eventually able to pick up the signal on Channel 2a (not 1a or 1b, which is what is labeled on the Fidelio). Something to know for the future. *** also, in the last round in theater 3 ( Parasite again) the processor seemed to randomly mute itself about an hour in. I was standing in booth 3/7 at the time and did not touch anything on the rack, and nothing unusual was happening on the scheduler. Fortunately I was able to unmute the film in about 30 seconds. Bizarre. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Added The Lighthouse to the scheduler for the last round in th...

Presentation Issues: No presentation issues but I did sit in TH4 for the opening and experienced the 1 min x 4 welcome card into the pre show. It's pretty awkward. (Although the 3 guests in the theater didn't seem to be phased at all.) Preshow Clips/Playlist: -Started downloading Queen and Slim pre shows from EVO. PS_10 completed before EVO crapped out and I had to remount it. It was an all-day affair as some portion or another of the pre shows didn't download properly and I had to re-do it 3 times. In the end, I could only get the 40 and 20 preshows successfully onto the drive and then TMS wouldn't ingest them (even though they are seen and appear to be complete). I have started the download again, this time using the poopoopants drive. Dylan, could you please TRY to ingest the Queen and Slim pre shows into TMS, tech them tonight and swap them into the Queen & Slim playlist? (I have a generic 40/20/10 preshow in there now, as a place holder so I could schedul...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: ingested Queen & Slim and Knives Out to TMS. Deleted Nightmare On Elm Street from TMS and projector 1. * Knives Out was not finished ingesting to TMS at the end of night (10% left!!) so I have left it to finish over night. Feature will needed to be added to the B1 playlist in the morning, and then it'll be ready to schedule. ** waiting on Queen & Slim preshow so we can build out the playlist. Was not in EVO tonight. *** added lights up  \and volume cues to Krisha 's playlist. Also added an extra 30 seconds of black after the feature since the credits are a little short. Trailer Updates: I grabbed the Bombshell trailer from the Knives Out drive since it was on there Special Events/ AV set up: Nightmare On Elm Street reasonable midnight. All DCP, all automated. No issues. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): received and ingested new keys for Hala ,  Jojo and...

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues first round. As I was going around and checking all the movies in all the houses before we opened, I decided to digitally crop Marriage Story as it was keystoning in TH5. TH5 seems to be less than optimal (masking and otherwise) to show anything other than scope or 1.85 Preshow Clips/Playlist: n/a Trailer Updates: n/a Special Events/ AV set up: n/a Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): I ordered some posters for "Cats" Ordering/Receiving (content):  n/a Outgoing/Shipping (content): Walked some drives to the UPS Print/video Inspection: n/a Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: n/a Maintenance/cleaning: n/a Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): checked cue sheets for the next two days Marquee updated?: n/a Posters updated?: n/a Cleaning lights on for the night?: n/a Projectors off for the night?: n/a Projection cart by TH5?: back in 3/7 Nest: Additional Notes: I held Robby Bobby...

Presentation Issues: Towards the end of the 4:00 Ford v. Ferrari in theater 7 a customer complained that the dialogue sounded very muffled. After listening in the theater I paused the movie and restarted the CP750 and the 3 QSCs but this did not fix the problem. After talking with Michael the only other troubleshooting option was rebooting the server, which takes 10 minutes. After talking with the MODs we ended up letting the movie finish rather than stop it again. Between rounds I rebooted the server and the center speaker was still muffled, so Michael remoted in and rerouted the center audio to the left speaker, which made the dialogue come through clearly (of course at the expense of the left audio sounding clear, but MODs and I decided it was OK for the next two rounds). I played the next two features at a slightly lower volume to account for the channel change as well. Michael said he would take a look at the center speaker in 7 tomorrow morning. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Tra...

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Deleted Hala & downloaded Krisha  to TMS. Trailer Updates: n/a Special Events/ AV set up:  Hala screening went well, no problems. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: n/a Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Added upcoming marquee changes to the whiteboard. Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked tomorrow's cue sheet- Nightmare on Elm Street has yet to be QC'd, so we are still missing the start credit time. Marquee updated?: Up to date Posters updated?: Up to date Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projectors off for the night?: Projection cart by TH5?: Nest: Additional Notes: I didn't want to call this a presentation issue-this morning the showtimes board in the lobby was displaying incorrect times- showing a 10:15 screening of Jojo ...

Presentation Issues: The 3:30  Parasite in TH4 froze about halfway through the movie. I immediately paused the playlist and hit play again, and the movie resumed about 30 seconds later. Then, during the end credits, the "Mid" lighting cues did not fire automatically. I rebooted the server after that round, which seemed to work. No issues after that. Preshow Clips/Playlist: The A1_FordvFerrari_112219 playlist had the December STB trailer tacked onto the very end for some reason, after the cleaning lights are programed to go back on. When Gil alerted me to this, I stopped the 7:00 show manually right before the STB trailer came up, and modified the playlist for all future rounds. 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): Checked...

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues Preshow Clips/Playlist: The way that I read Kris's trailer assignments for both adult and all ages is that our A1_AllAges11/22/19 and B1_112719 (adult first run) and corresponding trailer packs are good until 12/5. So we could begin scheduling for the week of 11/29 ? (So I started that) Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Left the camcorder plugged in over by Th6 digital projector for tomorrow's NSF event. 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): I filled in the cue sheets entirely for Friday (and scheduled Friday and part of Saturday) and filled in the whole week with preshow up until movie start times. Double checked tomorrow's cue sheet and scheduler, unscheduled a couple of shows that had a minute bet...

Presentation Issues: No issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: We are now scheduling a "first round bumper" which a four-minute playlist scheduled 5 minutes before the first show of the day in each theater. Since we are scheduling a separate playlist, there is about 45 seconds with nothing on screen as the server switches the playlists. We are trying to figure out a more seamless way of executing this, but this is how it will be for now, just in case there are any questions. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Went through the NSF Vimeo playlist with the mic setup in Theater 3. Should be all set for tomorrow. I wasn't able to fully resolve the masking issue, however. My first instinct was to get the ladder and move the masking by hand and reset the pre-sets (which was probably wrong). I spent a while playing with it but no matter what I did I either could not get it to come in all the way to 1.33 with the motor or it would not open enough for even 1.85 with the mo...

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist:  *Built a "lights up" Lighthouse playlist for the weekend to accommodate tight turnaround times. It is named A2_LTSUP_Lighthouse112219  The times to use this playlist are written on the whiteboard, and was emailed out to everyone by Ryan. *Finished building the vimeo playlist with all cues and interstitials. Alec, you will need to manually advance/maybe pause the second half of this show between every element. *Made playlists for Krisha, Celebration, Christmas Vacation Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up:  *Depeche Mode and the Video DJ in high-res afterwards all went very smoothly. Also made me feel pretty old. *For the Vimeo NSF Awards event, I am assuming that we are bringing in the portable PA speakers (and stands) that live in the mezz closet and we will run all wired mics/mini mixer to those? Alec, do you want to look over the event memo tomorrow and through the pla...

Presentation Issues: No issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Pulled NSF Vimeo preshow and logo slide from EVO onto our hard drive. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Depeche Mode screening in T1 with Music Video Time Machine afterparty in Hi-Res after. Playlist is all set, this should be a very simple event. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Queen & Slim posters came in. Ordering/Receiving (content): Knives Out DCP has arrived and been ingested. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Checked the trailer for Queen & Slim and set the volume to 4.0. -Checked the Generic Midnite preshow, no problems. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Added tracking for Krisha and   Queen & Slim , both should be here tomorrow afternoon . Maintenance/cleaning: Dave Berti from DMS was here this morning to take a look at all of our 35mm projectors with me and Michael. This was an incredibly illuminating session, he gave us some really invalu...

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: n/a Trailer Updates: Up to date. Special Events/ AV set up: The Mass Appeal Roc Raida Tribute  was complex switching between the house macros for the clips & the conversation, but the show ran well. It was a great learning experience helping Karen juggle all the elements of the show. Once the DJs were set up in the bar (an ordeal which Karen has described extensively in her blog), the rest of the night went smoothly. John helped me move the turntable back to the 3/7 booth at the end of the night, the cables are back in their homes, and bar amp is switched off. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Checked out the new generic preshow for Frozen 2  and the preshow and feature for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Volume and light cues are set. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Updated...

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues tonight. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Frozen 2  preshows didn't finish downloading from EVO by the end of the night, so those have yet to be added to the playlist. I double-checked sound & house lights cues for the movie. Trailer Updates: n/a Special Events/ AV set up: Die Hard and trivia setup/takedown all went smoothly. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Checked Frozen 2  in Th 6, again since the preshows won't finish downloading until the morning I wasn't able to QC those. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Updated for  Frozen 2 . Maintenance/cleaning: Made new credit/runtime sheets for 11/22-11/28 for the whiteboard, they are underneath the current ones. Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked tomorrow's cue sheet. Marquee updated?: Took down Die Hard  from 14th St. side & put up...

Presentation Issues: No issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: NSF closing night in Theater 1. Dylan ran everything in the booth and I stayed in the theater. No issues to report. Everything from the bar mic setup is back in 4/6. The only thing is I don't know where the other three screws for the XLR box by the DJ/Mic panel in Hi-Res, so I put the wire back inside and tightened the one screw that was still in there. Just a heads up I did not delete the shorts from TMS since I don't know what we will need for the award winners screening this weekend. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Hala is ready to be ingested from EclairPlay when we can clear some space on the TMS. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Deleted the old version of The Lighthouse (without the short) from all servers. It is still on our EclairPlay if for whatever reason we need to ingest it again. Print/video Inspection: Asset ...

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues in the first round. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: We have stopped playing NSF19 trailer today. Special Events/ AV set up: *I played NSF19 cue to cue one last time. Everything looks great. I had to update the preshow portion of the playlist. 4 mics, no chairs in theater + 1 mic in high-res after *Gregg from Mass Appeal came in to tech Wednesday night's event. The event will be labor intensive with a dedicated projectionist needed to change audio input and lighting throughout the show as well as a full DJ set-up in high-res for an after party. I will stay on tomorrow into the evening to offer event support. I almost feel like the 1999 preshow is better than the Music Driven for this event. Thoughts? Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content):  I am walking the massive amount of drives to the UPS drop-off on my way out Print/video Inspection...

Presentation Issues: After the first round, TH7's scheduling would not start automatically. I think it was perhaps because the movies were all 1 minute apart and while it is possible to schedule things within the minute ML discovered that a playlist scheduled at 11:15 doesn't start at 11:15 on the dot but closer to 11:15:30 so if you have a string of movies starting 1 minute apart they will, accumulatively, overlap. Let's keep this in mind when we are scheduling.  In light of this, I took the rest of TH7 off the scheduler for today as well as the last two rounds of TH5. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: - Took one last glance over the NSF19 playlist and discovered we did not have the updated pre-show. Looking on our external hard drive, I saw that the updated PS was not complete, so I started the download from EVO again. In the case that it does not finish before I leave, Alec, please pull PS_NSF2019_ClosingNite_Update_1107 and sw...

Presentation Issues: No issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Unfortunately I was not able to tech the new Lighthouse + The Fall CPL (labeled "20191112"), because it said we were missing the KDM. I tried it on multiple servers, and also ingested the most recent KDMs we had received, with no luck. Finally I sent an email to see if anyone has any thoughts. Sorry if I'm missing something here. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked and confirmed for tomorrow. Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes. Projectors off for the night?: Yes. Projection cart by TH5?: Yes. Nest: Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: No issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: All That Heaven Allows brunch screening in Theater 2. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): The drive of The Lighthouse we received last night does in fact have the short film ahead of the feature. New run time is 01:56:19. Daniel, can you tech this tonight and let us know about any differences in aspect ratio or volume between the short and feature, and also write down the timestamp where the feature starts, so we can make the new playlist. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Added the new file of The Lighthouse in case there are any peculiarities to note after we tech it. Maintenance/cleaning: Made scratch test reels for the 35mm projectors in Theater 4. They need to be projected before we can run them through over and over. -Swept and mopped in 4/6 -Fixed the Captiview...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: the volume on Ford v. Ferrari sounded a little loud, so I turned it down to 5.0 on the playlist Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): we received a new drive for The Lighthouse , but it seems to just have the original version of the feature on it, not the new one with the short attached (even though the shipping label says that it does). I sent some e-mails about this. New drive is sitting on the desk in 4/6. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Checked & updated — everything we need for the next week seems to be in (except for the Roc Raida Tribute content, it seems) Maintenance/cleaning: I updated the dry erase board in booth 4/6 with this week's info Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): checked the cue sheet and scheduler for tomorrow — no problems Marquee updated?...

Presentation Issues: No issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Added some preshow content to the NSF closing night playlist and looked at it in the theater. All cues, shorts, slides, bumpers, etc. are looking good. - Built and scheduled Die Hard . -Built the Frozen 2 playlist, however we are still waiting on preshow so that is missing from the playlist at this point. Trailer Updates: Made an all ages trailer pack for Thursday 11/21 Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Drives for Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and Frozen 2 came, both features have been ingested. -John is bringing the new drive of The Lighthouse (with the short film in front of the feature) tonight. Dylan, can you make a new playlist with this version and schedule it starting tomorrow? Outgoing/Shipping (content): Marriage Story has been picked up. Print/video Inspection: Teched All That Heaven Allows in Theater 2. Looks and sounds gre...

Presentation Issues: No issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built playlists for next week with the usual naming. -Checked the updated November card, STB trailer, and Christmas screenings trailer. All are looking/sounding good. Trailer Updates: Made updated trailer packs for changes on Monday 11/18 and Thursday 11/21 Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Ingested  Depeche Mode: Spirits in the Forest from EclairPlay. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Broke down reels 6-3 of Marriage Story . Karen will break down the last two tonight and pack it up to be shipped. Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Added tracking for Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and Frozen 2 , both should be here tomorrow. Maintenance/cleaning: Changed the lamp in the Christie in Theater 3 with Michael. Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): No updates to today's. Went over next week's with Gerard, they ...

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues tonight. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Downloaded STB_Dec, Christmas19, and Nov_B_Update_1115 from EVO. Built a playlist for Ford v. Ferrari  and scheduled tomorrow's shows. Named it A1_FordvFerrari_1115 since I created it with the new elements from the trailer list. Trailer Updates: Right now the only playlist with the new elements from the 11/15 trailer list is Ford v. Ferrari. Special Events/ AV set up: n/a Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers):  n/a Ordering/Receiving (content): Ingested new KDMs from Eclair for Parasite and Lighthouse. Outgoing/Shipping (content): n/a Print/video Inspection: QC'd Ford v. Ferrari  playlist. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Up to date. Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked tomorrow's (Thursday) cue sheet and added end times for  Ford v. Ferrari showings. Marquee updated?: Ford v. Ferrari  will need to be added ...

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues Preshow Clips/Playlist: We are still waiting on the Christmas trailer and the updated NovB Card. The Ford v. Ferrari Playlist will need to be completed tomorrow morning. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): We received a new trailmix and Die Hard. Die hard has been ingested into TMS. Also, Depeche Mode has come through on Eclair. I did not ingest it yet. Joker and All that Heaven Allows keys came in. They have been ingested. We are good with keys for all of our first runs through the week. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Can Thursday admin please check to see if there are drives to walk to the drop off. Print/video Inspection: I teched Ford v. Ferrari feature plus the preshows. The feature should have a volume set at 5.5, with credits starting at 2:27:00 into the feature. The credits are 5:22 long and lights mid should happen -5:10 from ...

Presentation Issues:  Marriage Story  35mm continued gathering scratches — the image now also, strangely, seems to have developed a tilt. It appears as if the projector has been shifted slightly to the right, giving the image a keystoning effect it did not have yesterday. I don't know how this would be possible, but, I also do not remember the image for this film having any kind of a tilt before today. I took a video of this in the end credits, where it was most noticeable, and sent it to Karen/Michael for review. (see also: the focus issues Karen mentioned in her own blog)      Taking all of these factors into consideration Matthew decided to end 35mm screenings of  Marriage Story . The last round in theater 1 played from DCP. Preshow Clips/Playlist: I tried downloading the Nov B card from EVO, but it did not seem to be finished uploading. We need that and the "Christmas" trailer before building updated playlists. * ingested the  Ford v. Ferrari...

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues. Although I did spend a lot of time with the platter system today trying to trouble shoot points of failure. Anyone who is running the 35mm Marriage Story from now until Friday needs to stay in booth 1 as much as possible. We are also noticing a problem with it falling out of focus in different scenes with this last screening. Preshow Clips/Playlist: I pulled the Ford v. Ferrari pre-show off of EVO as well as updated PS for NSFClosing and Vimeo.  Trailer Updates: I made the new trailer pack for 11/15/19 Special Events/ AV set up: I re-programmed the 1.33 masking slot to 1.78 for TH3. In doing so I had the curtains snap out of the clips again and so I took the time (with some help from Juan) to add/cut more zip-tie points of closure along the vertical where the side curtains meet, along with re-securing the top to the roller clips. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Ford v. Fe...

Presentation Issues: We are getting some noticeable hairline scratches on Marriage Story . From the look of how they are spaced, I don't think this is completely a matter of user error — the scratches look a lot like the ones we had on Hollywood , and are popping up all over the frame. We should look into the cause of this more deeply. After noticing this I paid extra close attention to my threading for all shows. ** we had an audience altercation during the dinner round of Joker . I was asked to bring up the house lights and stop the show, which I did. After the conflict was resolved, I resumed the show where we left off. The next show in that theater started a bit late, but was able to seat properly. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Marriage Story 35mm x 3. Print ran great each time, no problems to report. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): received All That Heaven Allows . It has been inges...

Presentation Issues: No issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: The splice in the credits on the Marriage Story print removes about 7 seconds from the very end of the closing credits, within the final crawl. It is of course a noticeable jump cut, but as far as timing goes does not make much of a difference. I shortened the black slug in front of the DCP feature on the 35mm playlist to 1 minute so the lighting cues will not be as far behind the end of the print. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): We have two drives scheduled to arrive tomorrow: Ford v. Ferrari and All That Heaven Allows . Just putting this out here since we are open early tomorrow and do not have the regular admin schedule. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Teched NeverEnding Story and Everybody's Everything . NeverEnding Story is all set. Everybody's Everything is good too, however this feature is 1...

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: n/a Trailer Updates: n/a Special Events/ AV set up: The bat mitzvah this morning went smoothly Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): n/a Ordering/Receiving (content): n/a Outgoing/Shipping (content): n/a Print/video Inspection: Karen came in this morning to look at the tail of the Marriage Story  print that was giving Daniel troubles last night. A large chunk of the end credits was totally mangled, way beyond being able to be run through the projector. Ended up needing to just splice it out, so Karen stayed to run the whole film to make sure it went though the projector smoothly this time, which it did (go Karen). Alec will have to check what that actually looks like on screen tonight. We will likely have to adjust the lighting cues in the Marriage Story 35MM playlist in light of this. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: n/a Maintenance/cleaning: n/a Cue sheets updated/chec...

Presentation Issues: During the end credits of the 3:30  Marriage Story , the tail came loose and caused the film to spaghetti on the platter. I was able to keep it going through most of the credits without any problem, but eventually the film got caught in the gate. I immediately closed the dowser and brought up the lights, ending the show about 20 seconds early. (Most of the audience had already left.) But because of this, the last 20 seconds of film got a bit damaged. I watched the credits closely for the next two rounds, and both times these last 20 seconds again got caught in the gate. It seems to me that we may need to cut out a few frames at the end so the film can run smoothly from now on. Based on what I saw tonight, I just want to mention that the tail does not finish running through the gate, so immediately after muting the processor, I would run back and close the dowser. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Orderi...

Presentation Issues: No issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: I added the logo slide to the NeverEnding Story playlist for the intro and updated Monday's cue sheet. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: The Trouble with Harry brunch screening in Theater 2. Looked and sounded great. No issues. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Added tracking for Ford v. Ferrari , should be here Monday. Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Today's sheet is looking good. Three copies are printed-- one in 4/6, one in booth 1, and one to carry around. Marquee updated?: Up to date Posters updated?: Up to date Cleaning lights on for the night?: N/a Checked every house and all playlists?: Yes Projectors off for the night?: Projector 4 was still turned on when I got in as well as the lamp. Please remember to shut of...

Presentation Issues: 2nd showing of Marriage Story  in theater 1 started out with the image backwards, as I'd flipped the film while threading it. Was immensely helpful having Alec there (thanks Alec). So that audience saw yrotS egairraM, but we stopped the film right after the title card & it took about 2 minutes to fix. After that the rest of the night ran smoothly. Preshow Clips/Playlist: n/a Trailer Updates: n/a Special Events/ AV set up: n/a Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): n/a Ordering/Receiving (content): n/a Outgoing/Shipping (content): n/a Print/video Inspection: I watched the new Guardians of the Galaxy DCP for the first 45 minutes. This time it didn't stop at 34:01, seems to have no problems thus far. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Up to date Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked cue sheets for Saturday and Sunday 11/9 & 11/10. Marquee updated?: Up to date Posters updated?: Up to da...

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues in the first round. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up:  I ran the whole slide show for the Bar Mitzvah and had libreoffice freeze on me. I adjusted the power save settings on the computer so that it never shuts off. It was set to go to sleep at 10 minutes and that was right when the slide show froze. I ran the slide show again for 20 minutes and everything was fine. Fingers crossed. I am leaving detailed technical directions for Erin, who will be working, along with directions on how to switch to Blu-ray as back-up. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): There is a big dry-mounted (on foam) Marriage Story poster n 3/7. Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: I teched The Irishman and moved some light cues around (they were coming up before the credits started and there was no lights down for the trailers). I also raised the vol...

Presentation Issues: No issues, I forgot to mention in my blog last night that the last foil cue on Marriage Story does not bring the lights up from MID so we have to switch to Lts UP manually. Also, during the first showing tonight the tail running through was audible (analog sound must have been switched to projector 2 yesterday, but we should leave it switched to 1 in case there is a problem at some point with the digital soundtrack on the print). Long story short just make sure you mute the CP750 when the dowser on projector #1 closes at the end of the film. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built and scheduled show playlists for Thursday 11/14, and for the special events of NeverEnding Story and Everybody's Everything . Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Deleted Zombieland from TMS and theater servers. Print/video Inspection: I put on the Guardians of the Ga...

Presentation Issues:  There were no presentation issues in the first round, although I did make a 1.66 masking preset on the motor and assign it to the 1.78 slot in the macro to frame out Marriage Story correctly for tonight. We will need to re-program it for 1.33 for tomorrow's Lighthouse screening in TH7. I will be sure to do that tomorrow morning. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Need playlists for NeverEnding Story & Everybody's Everything Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content):  Ingested keys for Trouble with Harry (these go live at midnight on Friday, I will tech it tomorrow morning) & Neverending Story (these go live at 8 am on Sunday) Alec, could you tech it Sunday night? Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: -Teched NSF2019 Closing Night today with Caryn and Liz. There are two movies that need special source files to optimize the image since they were given...

Presentation Issues: No issues. First two 35mm Marriage Story shows went off without a hitch! Preshow Clips/Playlist: I did not notice any flash of white light at the end of the Marriage Story print, but I moved the last cue up anyhow. Ingested the updated November NPP card and Irishman preshow clips. Updated playlists for Friday and built the Irishman playlist. I did not make new "B1" playlists for next Thursday yet since I don't want them to be confused with the "B1" playlists we're using today and tomorrow. Trailer Updates: Made a trailer pack for next Thursday, when we remove Ford v. Ferrari . Special Events/ AV set up: Slayer doc in Theater 2 and Music Video Time Machine in Hi-Res. Both went well, all cables are back in 4/6. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): I called Deluxe to check on keys for The Trouble with Harry and they said we should be getting them tomorrow. Outgoing/Shipping (content):...

Presentation Issues:  Right as we opened House 7 went completely offline. I crawled up to the actual projector disconnected power, rebooted, checked the marriage, came down to the server rack and rebooted VNS and was able to get it back online with 10 minutes to go until the first showtime. Preshow Clips/Playlist:  Updated Marriage Story 35MM playlist. Alec, can you see if you get a brief flash of white light on screen just before the changeover is triggered and the lamp shuts off? Dylan said he thought he saw it and I was focused on the sound processor at that moment. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content):  - Neverending Story DCP came in; it has been ingested. The keys are due to be delivered by 8 am on 11/7, they go live at 8 am on 11/10. I will keep an eye out for them to be delivered. Either Erin or Alec, can you please tech this on Sunday? - We got new keys for The Lighth...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Blue Velvet has been deleted from projector 2 ** Made a Temp playlist with all shorts (except "Dishwasher") for NSF Closing Nite strictly for QC purposes (volume set at 5.0 across the board). (the playlist is SE_NSFClosingNite_TEMP) All shorts we currently have loaded are Flat, so there are no lens/masking cues needed. Trailer Updates: built the '110819' adult trailer pack — once we get the Nov B card we can make playlists for next week Special Events/ AV set up: n/a Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Ingested (almost) all shorts for NSF Closing Nite to TMS. I tried to download "The Dishwasher" from EVO — however, while the file seems to have downloaded completely onto our portable drive, the TMS computer in the rack is not registering it when I try to load the drive there. I can't figure out why — very weird. If I am doing something wrong here please ...

Presentation Issues:  No presentation issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist:  -Built 35mm Marriage Story playlist for the staff screening tomorrow. Built an AllAges Jojo playlist for the Hawks with Babies today. We are still waiting on Irishman PS content and the Nov_B card update. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: -We had the Netflix screening today which went very well. Alec and I are going to use tomorrow's staff screening as a final tech to try to dial in the lens focusing a bit more and get rid of some of the vignetting. We built all foil cues so they will also be tested tomorrow to see if we have the same lighting automation issues as we did during Hollywood. Dylan will be running the entire show for practice. Dylan and I looked ahead at tomorrow and checked in with John Woods. There is a chance that John will want to do an intro into Slayer. Since it coincides with our first screening of Marriage Story (like within 5 minutes), I will stick around for eve...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Sent out Marriage Story content for Wednesday/Thursday and scheduled all DCP shows. I held off on building the 35mm playlist until after we have the foil cues set on the 35mm print. * I deleted Halloween and Annie from projector 1 to make some space ( Marriage Story is taking up a lot of room — something to keep in mind when we open the even-longer The Irishman later this week) Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Received and ingested keys for Marriage Story. They go live at 8am Tuesday. Outgoing/Shipping (content): carried our outgoing drives to the UPS drop Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Checked & updated Maintenance/cleaning: Gave 35mm projector #1 a cleaning to prep tomorrow's private Netflix screening of the Marriage Story print Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): checked tomor...

Presentation Issues: There were no presentation issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: I teched all the Marriage Story pre-shows and the NPP horror trailer for Nightmare on Elm Street. All looked good. Dylan and I were discussing if there would be a difference between the Marriage Story DCP playlist and the 35mm playlist other than an added black slug to shutter the Christie, bring in the masking, and switch the sound processor, etc. Will we have the DCP running (shuttered) behind the 35? Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): The Trouble with Harry DCP came in and has been ingested. The keys for the DCP of Marriage Story came in and have been ingested, they go live tomorrow morning so we can tech the film tomorrow after Netflix leaves. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Dylan walked the DCP's to drop-off. We are hanging onto to Annie for a little while because I want to do a staff screening (the keys ...