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To do this evening/ was completed: Yes,  We're All Going to the World's Fair  still needs to be ingested and the last bits of the cue sheets need to be filled out Presentation Issues: I got buzzed by MODs that a light went up in the Theater 2 server station and if we had touched any breakers today. I said we hadn't and they confirmed that it happened in the server station and not in the Theater.  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: The Attack the Block intro went great! Intro was smooth and I broke down the set up and brought the mic back up to 4/6 Trivia also went well! Set up and breakdown was simple.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): I put the We're All Going to the World's Fair DCP on the drive after Lillian ingested that other stuff into Theater 1. I tried to ingest it, but the drive wasn't coming up at all for Local Storage. I was doing this at the end of the night, so I left it...

To do this evening/ was completed: DMS is sending one of their technicians, Jerry, in tomorrow morning to check out the light issue. Roger will also be here tomorrow morning between 10 and 11am. Alec and I will tag team this.   Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Ran through ALL NSF '23 playlists with the programmers.  Made a few adjustments in each playlist. All slides look great! This will, of course, get double checked for tomorrow...as will the rest before they screen. Got volume for the NSF '23   Mubi trailer and Bumper .  The only thing we need to QC again is The Whole World and His Wife . I put the DCP into DCP-o-matic and made it flat, instead of Scope. I was going to make a new lens file for this and adjust the masking, but it's super off. It didn't look good as Scope in DCP-o-matic, so I made this Flat. This one is strange, though, initially I thought it was Intimacy Workshop that needed to be adjusted, but that was just scope all the way thr...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Added Attack the Block  intro slide/feature content to its show playlist and added all necessary cues for the intro and playback (please double check the timing of the pause/server skip cues); also downloaded/ingested the keys for this title and updated the cue sheets accordingly Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Fatal Attraction screening in theater 1 went smoothly; the reels were rewound and left heads out for re-inspection/cleaned both projectors following the show Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Printed shipping labels and scheduled pickups for tomorrow morning for  Attack the Block , Dreamcatcher , and Private Parts  prints (these are all currently on the cart) Print/video Inspection: Finished inspecting  The Fugitive  and left the reels tails out in their shipping canisters (the print is quite scr...

To do this evening/ was completed: Posting a little early. This morning the electricians fixed the light in T1. I ran through a few sequences just to double check and everything was working great until the fire alarm went off due to smoke in the 4/6 booth. Same thing as last time, it was the soldering on the roof. The smoke subsided and I cleared the theatres with the fire alarm cue. After this happened, the cleaning lights wouldn't execute, and stuck to house lights. Paul reset the fire alarm and I checked the first round of AntMan today once it finished to see if the cue would properly execute cleaning lights and it did not. We'll get the electricians back in here.  We should receive the new film schedule this evening.  Presentation Issues:  Preshow Clips/Playlist:  Made the DCPs for all the following NSF '23 slides:  Opening Nite, Matinee Two, NoBudge, Closing Nite ~ all of which are without sponsor info (I confirmed with Cristina that this is correct)....

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: The emergency lights breaker switch was left on all afternoon/evening which, in combination with Alec's dimmer settings fix, kept the fluorescents in theater 1 down, though, a server told me the rear left fluorescent panel (the one closest to the guest entrance) turned on mid-film during the second to last round, stayed illuminated for a few moments, then went dark again Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Re-inspected Private Parts and packaged it for return shipping Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Removed Dreamcatcher and added letters for  Scarface ; took down  M3GAN  and Avatar: The Way of Water (noticed Cocaine Bear wasn't up so I added that as well) Posters updated?: C...

To do this evening/ was completed: Yes Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: I downloaded and then ingested the Generic_Persian preshow clips for Persepolis next weekend and started built the playlist for it. All it needs is to be inspected.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): I ingested Bowling 4 Eva into Theater 1 and Persepolis into Theater 4.  Outgoing/Shipping (content): Someone down in the kitchen buzzed me about the Attack the Block print moving around because they've been using the cart. I explained that it's being picked up by Sony directly and it is back on the cart.  Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: I went down to Theater 1 to check on the flickering lights during both scheduled showtimes and it thankfully didn't happen.  Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning l...

To do this evening/ was completed: This didn't affect the show at all, but when I was running loops in Theater 4 for the Private Parts screening the heat shield wouldn't open with the handle. The handle moved but the shield didn't. For the show I just opened the lamp door and opened the heat shield by hand and left it that way for the show, turning the lamp on only after starting the motor for a changeover and shutting it off before turning the motor off at the end of a reel. Took a look in the lamphouse again after the show, repositioned the handle a bit and tightened its set screw so we can open and close the heat shield normally now. No issues with the T1 cleaning lights! Please continue to monitor this. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Noticed the Oscar Live Action Shorts didn't get an updated playlist this week, Dreamcatcher and Cocaine Bear trailers played before the first screening today. I made a new playlist and scheduled it for the rest of the wee...

To do this evening/ was completed: Re-inspected the rest of Dreamcatcher-- it's ready for pickup, though I haven't scheduled that yet. Downloaded and ingested all of the new 3/03 preshow content (forecasts, NSF preshow) and built all first run 3/03 playlists, as well as a playlist for Scarface. Updated the NSF tech sheet with volume and aspect info for the opening night program. Bowling DCP finished up in T1, started a DCP for Persepolis , it's transcoding as I leave tonight. Presentation Issues: No T1 ceiling light issues tonight. 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: Alec and I tech'd the Closing Nite portion of NSF '23. Volume and/or any other adjustments have been added to the tech sheet. Please remember to put this information for festivals on the official tech sheet so that we know where it is.   Alec ran Fatal Attraction in T1, I ran Private Parts in T4. Volume has been noted.  Bowling 4 Eva is converting to DCP, should finish around 7-7:30. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Started downloading the NSF preshow to the DCPII drive.  Forecasts 0303 are taking a little while to download.  Please download j2c file again for 25min NSF'23 preshow. please download 5min preshow for nsf'23. 15min preshow is all set.  Tech'd Johnny Guitar in T3 with John. Adjusted the playlist with correct volume/masking.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Update on Persepolis! I'm glad I still have these screen shots I took yesterday. So, Alec mentioned to me today that he ripped...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Rounds 2 and 3 in T1: Same ceiling light flickering during trailers. Same trick with the emergency ceiling lights breaker did the trick, but only after repeatedly turning it on and off. Heat shield on 35mm P2 in T4 would not stay shut--if anyone complained about a loud slamming noise during Dreamcatcher, it was me trying to slam it shut. Eventually opted to tape the handle to the lamphouse to keep it shut.  Also: Animatrix ran smoothly in Dolby Digital but when I switched over to reel one of Dreamcatcher the 500 switched to SR--decided to run the whole film in SR at 7.1 on both processors. I could not see the green light or any light inside of the penthouse readers (the one Alec pointed out to me). Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Dreamcatcher intro and screening went very smoothly. Print is rewound heads out ready for inspection. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receivin...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Same back center ceiling light was flickering in T1. Triggered by the transitions, I assume. Matthew contacted the electricians, so hopefully we'll be able to sort this soon. Jack and I went back and forth with the breakers/light transitions to see what would help and once we were on house lights down a couple minutes into the feature--it stabilized. I have made a playlist for AntMan without cleaning lights--the last round this evening has that playlist scheduled! We can reschedule the TMS for this weekend using that playlist, but we'll see if help can come thru tomorrow first. As for this evening, Jack will avoid the cleaning lights cue for the show that's currently in there.  Preshow Clips/Playlist: I built the OCAP n CCAP playlists for Creed 3.  KDM for Johnny Guitar opens tomorrow.  Adjusted the volume for Cocaine Bear-playlists are all set!  It looks like Infinity Pool is listed on the trailer sheet for P...

To do this evening/ was completed: Added upcoming 35mm and digital titles for March to the dry erase board above the steps to the 4/6 booth; ran  Persepolis  through MKV and Handbrake again and made sure the English subtitle track was in tact but this was absent from the image when it was added to/analyzed by DCP-o-Matic (not sure what is causing this but the DCP converter has been left open and can be looked over tomorrow) Presentation Issues:  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Karaoke went smoothly this evening Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Downloaded and ingested keys for Johnny Guitar  Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection:  Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Received a shipment of (50 pk) microfiber cloths which has been left in 4/6 Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?...

To do this evening/ was completed: Note on ingesting supplement (VF) packages (OCAP & 7.1 versions of DCPs): in order to ingest these properly it has to be done on a server where the original version (OV, usually the 5.1 CCAP version) is present, otherwise the VF supplement DCP will not attach to the OV, and you will have an incomplete DCP which won't play. Once you have the complete VF on a server, it can be transferred anywhere without the OV being present on the server you transfer it to. I did have some trouble ingesting the OCAP EEAAO though, for some reason it kept failing when I tried ingesting it to the TMS. It didn't fail last night, it was just incomplete because the OV wasn't ingested to the TMS. Ended up ingesting it directly to Theater 1 and transferring the complete OCAP VF to Theater 6, where it is playing on Monday. Made the OCAP playlist and scheduled it. Also made new Close playlists for next week and scheduled those. Sharlene's Problem DCP conv...

To do this evening/ was completed: TMS has been scheduled for 2/24 - 3/2. We're only missing a few bits here and there, such as the DCP for Creed 3 . Info for Creed 3 is not yet available in the Deluxe Portal. Cocaine Bear keys just came in, but I got the credits info from the ingest letter. This should, however, get double checked once we're able to tech it. I've written up on the white board that there's 6 min of credits. Keys open on Thursday!  Started filling out the cue sheets for this upcoming week. Some SE titles need credit info, like Johnny Guitar, Private Parts , etc.  Presentation Issues: Closed Captioning device in T3 did not work, apparently. However, MOD told me that the patron did not mention this until after the show and that she mentioned she'd been playing with it a bit. My assumption is that they do work, but that they have trouble staying on before the feature's started. I checked and it was definitely connected to T3, but that was during tr...

To do this evening/ was completed: I managed to download the remaining two film files for the No Budge program using Cyberduck. Give this a try if you're having trouble completing larger downloads through Chrome, I've had lots of luck with it. Started converting  Sinking Sun  to DCP and  Sharlene's Problem   is also open and ready to convert when that finishes on the Booth 1 Mac to the DCPIII drive. Remember we can ingest DCPs directly from this drive. Converted the two slides for the engagement shoot tomorrow to DCP and ingested them to Theater 6. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Set up a mic for tonight's intro in Theater 3 and left a mic stand under the curtain. The spotlight remote is in the box behind the curtain. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Ripped the Persepolis blu-ray and put the file through HandBrake, this is ready to convert to DCP. Files are on the Boot...

To do this evening/ was completed: La La Land finished transferring to the DCPII drive in booth 1 and was locally ingested to theater 6 this evening (this can be checked tomorrow) Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built and scheduled a show playlist for the La La Land private event on Thursday with an all ages pre-show (this is replacing  Magic Mike's Last Dance for the first round in auditorium 6) Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Der Fan screening in theater 3 went smoothly Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Technical difficulty downloading NSF23 content for the NoBudge program continues; not sure how to move forward with or download this content without it failing Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: Addi...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: The KDM for Cocaine Bear will arrive on Wednesday 2/22.  Built the playlist for Fatal Attraction .  Built the playlist for Attack the Block, but we still need the DCP.  All Rep R titles ( Attack the Block, Private Parts, Fatal Attraction) are still in need of the Rabbit Hole trailer, should we still be moving forward with it. It's still listed as TBD on the trailer sheet.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Did some rearranging to get the DCP of La La Land copied over to the DCPII drive. It's still copying over, but should be done very soon. This can and should get ingested to T6 as soon as it's copied.  Took a seat out in T7 for 3:30 screening of Avatar . The screws are on the counter where we keep poster info in 3/7. Please put this chair back once the screening is over (just before 7pm!) Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Reache...

To do this evening/ was completed: Tried downloading those additional NSF23 NoBudge shorts to the desktop in booth 1 but got the same "network error -- failed" alert that appeared on the 4/6 desktop Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Lowered the feature volume cue for Avatar: The Way of Water to 5.2 since it is playing in the smaller auditoriums now and sounds very loud at 5.8  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): Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: Additional Notes:

To do this evening/ was completed: Built playlists for Private Parts and Johnny Guitar, though the 5min preshow for Guitar won't be on Drive till tomorrow. Kubo and Wings of Desire removed from TMS/servers. Attempted to download the last two remaining shorts for NoBudge NSF: Sharlene's Problem and Bowling 4 Eva. Every download failed, some due to lack of storage space, but other hard drives had plenty of space and still they failed. Will investigate further this evening. LaLa Land is still transcoding in DCPoMatic at the time of this writing. Removed two ADA seats today, both during trailers/late preshow. If possible, if the guest has purchased tickets in advance, could projection be notified of the upcoming seat removal before the show, so we're not bumping around and making noise in the dark? I know we do get heads up sometimes already. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ord...

To do this evening/ was completed: Smooth evening on our end, but loads of patrons this evening. No heavy lifting, which is nice considering my back has three icy hot patches on it.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Downloaded and ingested the following preshow elements for next week:  NSF Mubi NSF Bumper Leah Shore Trailer Updates: I think a few notes went missing when the board was redone (where the trailers are) but I've checked and added the volumes for these titles (all of which are now labeled on the white board in 4/6):  Dad & Step Dad Spider Man Creed 3 Shazam Scream 6 John Wick Little Mermaid Super Mario Bros We're still in need of the Rabbit Hole trailer.  Special Events/ AV set up: Put the DJ equipment back in the storage closet bin. Key is in there as well.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): La La Land is quite the file. Took a hot minute for it to finish up in Handbrake, but I ran it through...

To do this evening/ was completed: Cleared some content off the servers, left Aftersun and Tar on the TMS and saving the Woman Talking drive since these might come back. I made a cue on the T3 server for the 1.90 lens file, this is for the private event on Tuesday. Noticed on the cue sheets that all rep DCP titles had HI listed as available accessibility tracks, but none of these DCPs have that available. If "HI" is not included in the name of the DCP, the track won't be included. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built and scheduled Cocaine Bear playlist. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordered Scream VI posters Ordering/Receiving (content): Ingested Poetic Justice to Theater 4. I re-encoded La La Land with HandBrake, it was done with a 2-channel stereo mixdown which is the default on HandBrake (and you can't really change it in the preset since the mixdown we want will depend on the mix of the...

To do this evening/ was completed: Inspected Private Parts print. It's in excellent condition--no splices, no emulsion scratching. Inspection sheet filled out, stills uploaded to Drive, Conrad notified.  Built R-rated trailer pack for next week 2/24--forecasts downloaded and ingested (even though Kat said these wouldn't be on Drive till Tuesday). CocaineBear_ 15min downloaded and ingested, as well as Drugs_15min. PG-13 and PG 2/24 playlists feature the same trailer packs as 2/17. All first run 2/24 playlists built. Put the Lala Land file into HandBrake and started the conversion process--it was at 15% when I last checked and had about seven hours to go--is this usual or did I miss something? 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?: Yes Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Lillian was out today, I've added her to the paid sick leave calendar. We got a new hard drive for the T1 workstation. It's the tiny SanDisk, which somehow has 2TB of space. I re-formatted it as a NTFS drive, so we can ingest directly from it. I purchased a license for the NTFS for Mac software, so we are all set up for making DCPs on this station. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Shrek went well this morning. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Johnny Guitar DCP came in, it's been ingested to Theater 3. Received Private Parts and Fatal Attraction prints, they've been placed in their respective booths. I started ripping LaLa Land blu-ray, it will need to be put through HandBrake and converted to DCP. Desmond handed off the Persepolis blu-ray to me, we'll convert this to DCP for the screenings the first weekend of March. Outgoing/Shipp...

To do this evening/ was completed: Shrek blu-ray was dropped off, ripped via MKV and Handbrake, and later converted to DCP; this was locally ingested to theater 2 Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Shrek playlist built, scheduled, and tested; volume levels and light cues have been adjusted accordingly Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Michael Thorpe private event in theater 3 went smoothly; the hard drive and poster were left behind 3/7 for Chenelle to return to the guests tomorrow morning 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): Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projection cart by entrance?: Yes Additional Notes:

To do this evening/ was completed: Ingested Dreamcatcher slide, updated playlist. Tech'd Der Fan, Oscar Live Action, Wings of Desire and Part Time. Volumes have been logged, credit offsets too. Trailer packs updated with appropriate volume for in-house trailers. Cue sheets reviewed with Paul--we still need the Cocaine Bear preshow elements to make the playlist/adjust the cue sheet, but we have the feature/ingest letter to get credits (again, once preshow elements are complete). Kubo and the Two Strings keys will open  Chenelle asked if we could play Everything Everywhere instead of the Lala Land blu-ray, per the client's request. The keys will still be active come 2/23. TBD. Chenelle also brought a blu-ray of  Shrek, which we'll be playing for a private screening tomorrow. BR can be ripped and converted to DCP tonight. The fire alarm went off this morning, as part of either a test or an issue with the elevator maintenance being performed. We reset all of the lighting panels...

To do this evening/ was completed:  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built and scheduled a show playlist for Poetic Justice and updated the cue sheets accordingly Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: The Best Man screening in theater 4 went smoothly Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cleaned the film projectors in theater 1; not much oil residue/seepage but there was a thin layer of dust/grime throughout that was wiped down Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes Marquee updated?: Removed EO and Tár to make space for upcoming first run titles; added letters for Kubo and the Two Strings and Wings of Desire  Posters updated?: Removed Women Talking from the front and put Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in its place; placed  Creed III  in the lobby Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Pro...

To do this evening/ was completed:  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built the playlist for Part Time and Dreamcatcher , though Dreamcatcher needs to be adjusted once Cristina sends us the special slide.  Downloaded the trailer of TheFly2 for Dreamcatcher playlist.  Transfered  Der Fan to T3.  Tomorrow we'll snag the credits info for the Live Action shorts (unless Will wants to this evening!) Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Got a rental confirmed for 2/23 for a 16th birthday party. They're going to choose a BluRay from our collection and Chenelle will drop it off to us soon! Started a playlist. Memo link is here:  Party Rental 2/23   Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Received and ingested keys for Best Man, Avatar, M3gan, Knock at the Cabin, Close, EEAAO Fatal Attraction should be here by Friday.  Ingesting  Poetic Justice to the TMS.  Cocaine Bear playlist can get b...

To do this evening/ was completed: Yes Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up:  The Cruel Intentions show went great! We only cut about 6 minutes into the preshow because of the tech, but the show itself was terrific. We had to make a little adjustment when the performers wanted to be on mic before the bow music, but it was handled swiftly!  Apart from one really unfortunate thing that happened specifically to me during the tech. More on that below!  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: I was able to download With the Fishes short through my personal computer, Airdropped it to the Projection iMac, converted it to a DCP, and ingested it onto the server.  Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Yes Maintenance/cleaning:  When I first came in today, I had trouble taking my key out of the Theater 4/6 door lock, but I eventually d...

To do this evening/ was completed: Uploaded keys for Kubo. Built playlists for Oscars Shorts (doc, live action and animation) and scheduled the week in the TMS. Fri-Sun on the cue sheets have been built. Playlist built and scheduled for Der Fan. R-rated trailer pack was updated (missing a few volume cues, different trailer for Cocaine Bear).  Tech'd all of the shorts for the opening night program of NSF. Volumes have been logged and all of the content looks and sounds great. We have a switch for the spots in T2 now, its on the wall right by the control board. There's two switches, one for the wash lights and one for the moving spotlights. Keep the wash turned on, and the moving lights off when we're not using them. With all the new outlets in 4/6, I moved things around and got rid of the extension cord/power strip situation on the desk. We have more than enough outlets by the desk that we shouldn't have to use any extension cords or power strips. FYI the seat removal dr...

Hey, team. Thanks for letting me escape the city for a few days. I appreciate it!  To do this evening/ was completed: I downloaded DCP-o-matic to the computer in T1, which we can now use. We're ready to start our techs tomorrow for NSF '23 with Opening Nite. I made a playlist with the shorts in order called OpeningNite_Tech_21423.   Fire of Love will need a sound/masking check tomorrow! Cruel Intentions needs credit offset on the cue sheet for tomorrow.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Checked the Cruel Intentions playlist, which had the musical elements of the show out of order and without one of the files, so it's been adjusted. Volume will need to be checked tomorrow morning for this.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: The Love Witch went extremely well tonight. I'm super happy.  Ingested Michael Thorpe's DCP to the TMS.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Ingested Oscar Shorts for Docs/A...

To do this evening/ was completed: Juan, Vlad and co. installed two switches in T2, inside the booth, one to control the spotlights. They also brought the big ladder into T1 to check on the ceiling light we've been having issues with. We ran through several tests, bringing the lights up and down, from cleaning to "up" to "mid" to completely off and were unable to replicate the issue. They told me that the light had been changed very recently and didn't seem to know about a potential systems issue. We then went to T7 and replaced the dead bulb in the ceiling. They also installed an outlet box in 4/6 next to the desk, so we have a good amount of brand new outlets to plug into. Michael Thorpe stopped by to hand off a drive with his DCP for the private event on Thursday. I tried to locally ingest but the TMS didn't recognize the drive. When I connected it to the desktop I was prompted with a re-format query, which I ignored. Ended up putting the DCP files on...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built and scheduled a show playlist for Fire of Love with its pre-recorded intro and Q&A but the time shown on the TMS does not align with what should be on the cue sheets; the Q&A slide is a 30 minute long file and I placed a "skip ahead to next clip" cue about 10 seconds into it but the system still acknowledges it as the half hour long video it would otherwise be -- please double check this show playlist   for timing and picture/sound quality  -- I am unable to tech it tonight because the keys are not live until midnight tomorrow (note: tried -- and failed -- to run a test in theater 3 and according to the TMS the keys are expired...this is not true) Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Super Bowl screening went very smoothly; turned up the volume for the handful of people in theater 1 and connected the 1/8" cable to the DJ inputs for audio at Trees Lounge Ordering/Receiving...

To do this evening/ was completed: Malkovich round two went smoothly, courtesy of Alec. Print has been re-inspected and is ready for pick up. Made a DCP for PREP, ingested to TMS, transferred to T1. Ingested a bunch of NSF shorts, tech sheet updated.  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:

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: A guest in theater 2 complained a couple times during the second to last round of Magic Mike's Last Dance  that A) the image was too dark and B) there was no surround sound (or that all of the sound was coming from the center channel) so I checked on everything from the back of the room and: A) The picture appeared to me to be at its usual brightness (Alec just took care of this issue a few days ago) to me but I told the MODs we have been having problems with this lamp for a while now and that there was nothing I could do to affect the image on screen during the show B) While the dialogue centric scenes in this film are largely hushed, and I mean hushed (lots of use of the "inside voice" in this one), whenever music was played or the score kicked in I could hear -- and plainly see on the Dolby app I connected to during my quality check -- that every channel but the back left/right surrounds were being used and that ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Tested moving the CaptiView transmitter in the theater with the USB over ethernet extenders, it didn't work with these extenders. The devices would connect to the theater but just display "Dolby CaptiView ready" and not any captions. I think because it was over too long a distance, the extenders can do 150'. When I tried using them just in the booth they worked fine and captions displayed normally. I'll have to order a slightly pricier one for Theater 1, but the ones I got should do for Theater 6. I adjusted the lock on the T7 Christie service door, shouldn't give us any more problems. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Malkovich went well. Rewound the print for round two tomorrow. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sh...

To do this evening/ was completed: Thanks all for covering for me while I was out sick! I was glad to be back with a very quiet Prospect shift.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: I downloaded and then ingested the following preshow clips into all theaters:  - TLR_NPP_FORECAST_0217A - TLR_NPP_FORECAST_0217B - TLR_NSF23 - TLR_NPP_RoxyCarmichael I started building next week's playlists, adding in those clips to the necessary playlists. I made 2/17 playlists for:  - Avatar 2 - M3GAN - Close - Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - Tar - EO - A Knock at the Cabin Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up:  For the Shorts Fest, I downloaded the DCP of Operation Carcajou and ingested it into the server. I also downloaded D as in Do Not and started converting it into a DCP. It was still converting when I left.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated...

To do this evening/ was completed: Got a warning on the Theater 7 Christie which prevented the first round preshow from starting. The warning read "IMB Service Door is not armed." When this happens, you will also see a red warning icon next to "Security manager" in the Server panel in the Overview tab on the IMS web GUI. The warning comes up when the sensor inside the service door is not properly depressed by the lock. The service door is inside the projector, you have to take the lid off to access it. All I had to do was move the lock a little bit to depress the sensor, got the preshow started about 10 minutes after seating. It shouldn't happen again tonight. I had this problem after installing the SSDs last week, I got the lock in the right position and we hadn't got the warning again until now. Tomorrow morning I will reposition the lock so there's no wiggle room with the sensor, but it should be safe for now. I told McKegg to call me if something doe...

To do this evening/ was completed: Removed Skinamarink  and The Whale feature content from the TMS and corresponding servers Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Downloaded and ingested Quantumania  pre-show content; built and scheduled its show playlist (both versions -- trailer content will need to be swapped out for current coming attractions) Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Brazil screening in theater 1 went smoothly; continued downloading and converting NSF23 shorts to DCPs Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): The bin full of 35mm trailers Kat sent over was brought to booth 1 and moved near the make up table Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift):  Marquee updated?: Removed Love Jones and Brazil and added Being John Malkovich Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by e...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Karaoke at Trees went smoothly (note: the box in the closet on the mezzanine is lacking in gear required for karaoke and it seems a bit silly to have to pull mixers and additional mics/XLRs from theaters 1 or 2 each time we set up -- is there any way we could further consolidate or potentially devote more equipment to it for future events at Trees?);  Love Jones intro and screening was a success Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Close one sheets were delivered and stored behind 3/7 Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Finished inspecting The Love Witch and filled out an inspection report on the shared drive; also uploaded stills to the shared drive for Conrad Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Removed Babylon , Skinamarin...

To do this evening/ was completed: Jack beat up his hand pretty badly, so send him some good energy or some memes.  Staff screenings for Tar, Magic Mike and Brazil have been sent out. Had our cinema meeting! We're in good shape for NSF'23. Let's continue to download, ingest, and organize all assets for tech.  We had a bit of smoke in 4/6 today due to maintenance on the roof. It faded relatively fast. All clear now, but just so folks know in case it happens again and you're wondering where the heck it's coming from.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Downloaded the rest of the preshow for Decision to Leave  and built the playlist out.  Downloaded and ingested the Generic Preshow Comics_15min for Ant Man playlist.  Ingested Fire of Love intro. Not sure if we'll be using this.  Trailer Updates: Ingesting the Oscar Shorts Trailer-- this can get added to all trailer packs apart from Special Event playlists!  Special Events/ AV set up: Too...

To do this evening/ was completed: I reset the Deluxe portal password. It had been changed but the one saved on Chrome hadn't been updated. I saved the new password, it's: NPP7projection Uploaded our new TMS license, it will activate the morning of the 22nd, just before our current one is set to expire. The ceiling light in Theater 1 is still misbehaving. Now it just stays on sometimes, no flickering, though I don't think at full brightness (didn't take a long look as it was during a show). Luckily, flipping the ceiling/emergency light breaker on and off does the trick until the electricians come back. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built Close CCAP and OCAP playlists. Built Love Witch and Howl's , too. Scheduled next week's shows, just missing some special events still in need of playlists. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Huesera + intro/Q&A went smoothly, Q&A recording has been uploaded to Google Drive. Trivia went smoothly...

To do this evening/ was completed: Matthew sent the film schedule this evening. The shows for this upcoming week can now be scheduled on the TMS. Cue sheets to follow... Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Made a DCP of Nanos , which has been ingested into T1. I noticed a bunch of files for NSF '23 that were downloaded to the DCPII drive, but not unzipped. Please remember to unzip these files or the server will not recognize them, and similarly, make sure the DCP is not in a million folders (even if it looks well-organized). Ingested loads of NSF '23 today.  Got the KDMs for Puss in Boots, The Whale, Love Jones, Avatar.  Keys for Love Jones will be active tomorrow.  Keys for Brazil will be sent on Wednesday 2/8 per studio rules.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Chenelle has an engagement shoot booked on Wednesday 2/22 @ 10am, that will likely be in TH6. The client will be sending us some photos to run through instead of one single still image. W...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Continued downloading NSF shorts (from the Closing Nite folder) to the DCPII drive Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Finished inspecting Love & Basketball but left the 6th and final reel tails out on a house reel since there is a plastic shipping reel missing from its canister Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Removed Love & Basketball and A Hard Day's Night  and added letters for  Love Jones and Brazil Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: Additional Notes: The desktop in 4/6 was running extremely slowly this afternoon and Plex went down at Trees; a hard reboot seemed to fix this issue and everything was back in working order ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Re-inspected the first three reels of Love and Basketball after the screening. It appears a sixth shipping reel is missing for this print--only five reels in its cans. I see there's a black shipping reel beneath the rewind bench in one but it's labeled as a house reel. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Love and Basketball went very smoothly.  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: