NPP Projection Blog

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built and scheduled Running on Empty , also ingested the keys for the feature. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Had a good show of A Little Princess , though SRD on P1 is not working (I think this went out on us not long ago but I'll check back though notes). I'll look into this during the week but for tomorrow select SR as the sound format and bypass the penthouse reader. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Downloaded and ingested the remaining OCAP DCPs for the Trans + Realism NewFest shorts program, "Dismantle Me" and "Digital Curanderas." The drive with the Hayseed DCP on it (for a private tech on Tuesday) is ExFAT formatted, so not readable by the TMS and IMSes. I copied it to DCPIII and ingested it to T4. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Death Wish 3 got picked up. Print/video Inspection: Repaired the torn perf in reel 1 of Chi...

To do this evening/ was completed: Downloaded and ingested all new preshow content, including the Don't Go In There PS content. All 10/6 first run playlists and trailer packs built, as well as playlists for Stand By Me, Psycho and A Thing Called Love ( might have to replace the slide with a feature-specific one). Checked in on T2 booth throughout the night--no new leakage to report, seems the duct tape is holding well. Cue sheets checked and cross-checked with sales page. Received the Hayseed drive from Chenelle. Tried to ingest via T4 and TMS, neither found the content, though the DCP files look right.  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...

To do this evening/ was completed: The rain is leaking into booth 2 again, though not as much as it has in the past. I detailed all of this in an email to Matthew with the projectionists copied. There is also the ventilation duct which was leaking which we really need to keep an eye on. I taped it up with heavy duty waterproof duct tape so it should be fine but please check on it regularly, it was dripping on the floor right next to the Christie. Again, see the email for all the details. Please keep your eye on this room as it's going to rain all night. I alerted Matthew and the construction team should be looking into it. I added 2 and a half minutes of black to the Rear Window playlist, after the feature and before the DCP show end pack, with a cue to bring the house lights to the "UP"/preshow setting since there are no credits on this feature. We should always do this with features that don't have credits or have a minute or less. Having the cleaning lights come ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Double checked Stop Making Sense  to see about its volume and 5.8 is a nice and moderate level (it could probably be played at 6 or 6.3 but for now this is loud enough) Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Death Wish 3 screening in theater 1 this evening went smoothly Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): One sheets for The Royal Hotel and Radical  were delivered and stored behind 3/7; additional  Wish one sheets and  The Nightmare Before Christmas  and   Hocus Pocus 30th anniversary posters were delivered and stored away this evening Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Death Wish 3 was re-inspected and packaged for return shipment Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Swept booth 1 and cleaned both projectors following the 35mm screening Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Double checked cu...

To do this evening/ was completed: Tech'd all new first runs and changed the feature volumes slightly: Dumb Money and The Creator at 5.5, Stop Making Sense at 5.8. I listened to the latter at various sections and I think 5.8 is where it should be. It sounds full but not too loud--given that it's a concert film I think it should play at slightly higher volume than regular features. I'll let Will know to keep an ear on it tonight. Tech'd the Wake and Bake shorts program and some T3 features (This Place, Almamula and Cora Bora) with Desmond and Dustin. All volumes and aspect ratios have been logged, as well as lights up for the features. It looks like we might have to slightly adjust our 1.33 masking in T1 as there was just a little bit of pillarboxing with all of the shorts in that aspect ratio. Dustin often wanted to know if the content was CCAP compatible, and I could only confirm yes for those with CCAP written in the DCP file name. If there's more info I can obser...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist:  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Set up for karaoke at Trees Lounge; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button screening in theater 1 this evening went very smoothly + print was re-inspected and packaged for return shipment (return labels were included and taped to the canisters) Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Downloaded and ingested keys for Dumb Money , Paw Patrol 2 , and  Stop Making Sense + created and ingested a DCP slide for The Witches to the TMS Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Inspected the first two reels of House  and added some stills to the shared drive Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Double checked against the TMS schedule and times are accurate Marquee updated?: Added letters for The Creator , Dumb Money ,  Paw Patrol 2 , and Stop Making...

To do this evening/ was completed: Jack, NewFest will be here for their first tech tomorrow. They are teching the following features: This Place , Cora Bora , and Almamuda . These are all in Theater 3 and are ready to go. They are also teching all of the Wake & Bake shorts program. This is in Theater 1 and all shorts are also ready on the server. Also please check all the new first run features for volume tomorrow. The new titles can get added to the marquee tonight. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Scheduled staff screenings for tomorrow and Friday and sent the email out. Trailer Updates: Added Anatomy of a Fall to next week's R trailer pack in place of Exorcist . Checked volume on all current trailers and updated the cues in all packs. Special Events/ AV set up: Ran loops for Benjamin Button tonight. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): The House print arrived, it is in booth 1 and can be inspected tonight. Downloaded the re...

To do this evening/ was completed: New Jack City went well tonight, apart from the DJ from the event afterwards accidentally absconding with our HDMI dongle.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: At long, long last I finally had a terrific show in Theater 1. Even with deadly combo of the grease changeover cue at the end of reel 3 and the blind spot, New Jack City went perfectly. Framing and changeovers were on point throughout. It feels good.  The music video showcase down in Trees also went smoothly. I set up as much as I could in advance, but then also talked to Eliel to help set up because the DJ was slated to arrive while I was running the print. I checked on it once the movie was over and it looked like everything was going good.  When I checked back in to break everything down, everything had been put in its place except for the HDMI Macbook Dongle, which was missing. I told Eliel and he concluded that the DJ must...

To do this evening/ was completed: TMS scheduled, cue sheets built for the upcoming week, letters up for Rear Window.  Exorcist: Believer ingested to TMS, Running on Empty ingested to T3. NoBudge went very smoothly last night. Cleaned 35s in T1, ran loops afterward, framing and focus set. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: I tested the wireless mics through the PA speakers and it worked well, we will just have to lower the volumes of the mics on the mixer in the booth and remember to reset their levels when we reconnect the mixer to the CP750. This should work well for KGO next week! Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Got extra Dumb Money and Exorcist posters. Ordering/Receiving (content): I finished downloading Cora Bora . This wouldn't ingest because all the files hadn't been downloaded. I saw a note in a blog about the DCP having "too many files" but this was not the case, all the files in the Google...

To do this evening/ was completed: Teched show playlists for The Sentinel (volume levels were adjusted accordingly for this feature) and NoBudge shorts program Scheduled show playlists for Stop Making Sense on 9/28 Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Updated Stop Making Sense show playlists with generic pre-show content Built, scheduled, and teched a pre-show playlist for Death Wish 3 on 9/28 with all of the necessary trailer elements per Cristina's request Trailer Updates:  Special Events/ AV set up: Double checked spotlight and wash functionality in addition to testing all microphones required for the NoBudge event this evening Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Additional Anatomy of a Fall one sheets were delivered and stored behind 3/7 Ordering/Receiving (content): Received and uploaded new keys for Barbie , Bottoms , The Nun II , and TMNT: Mutant Mayhem Downloaded and ingested file elements for the Final Destination 2 trailer to be played before Cristina...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Double checked show playlists for both special events tomorrow but will quickly tech each one in their respective auditoriums in the morning to make sure they run without error Updated the show playlists for  The Creator and scheduled it in theater 1 on Thursday Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Transferred feature content for Chestnut  for NewFest from the TMS to theater 1 Began downloading feature DCP elements for Cora Bora to the DCPIII drive but there appears to be various "FTR" folders of differing file sizes so this is complicating the ingest process Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Swept up in 4/6 Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Double checked cues for tomorrow against the TMS schedule and updated credit offset informat...

To do this evening/ was completed: Built all trailer packs, A1 playlists and most SE playlists for the coming week.  Downloaded and ingested the last two NewFest shorts I Can See The Sun and Only For The Night  (aside from Compton's '22-- waiting on file). Do Digital Curanderas ingest failed twice, it's the only file we have so we'll have to reach out to NewFest tomorrow. Chestnut feature transferred to DCPII and ingested to TMS. Removed a lot of NewFest content from DCPII drive as Alec has placed most of it on the Preshow drive. Sentinel keys uploaded. Rain prevented brunch letters from coming down but Rear Window has been readied. 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?: Pos...

To do this evening/ was completed: Transferred the following content to the TMS: Generic SciFi preshow 5min, 15min, 25min.  PS_SE_KGO_FF, River Phoenix preshow 5 min & 15min, Don't Go In There trailer, Book PSA for Dall,  PS_SE_KGO_FF, forecasts for 9/29.  I have Cora Bora (NewFest feature) downloading again to the T1 desktop. That came in a rather confusing series of folders in Google Drive. I've singled out the files I think are correct, though it's a little hard to tell and there might be another file (for subs) that needs to go in the folder.  Another NewFest feature, Chestnut , is extracting on the 4/6 desktop. This has been taking awhile, making the comp here stagger loads. It's almost finished, so once this is done please move it to the DCPII drive for ingest.  Presentation Issues: No presentation issues. One manual start.  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Stop Making Sense has 3 min of credits. Wrote this up on the board. I haven't made the playlist ye...

To do this evening/ was completed: Made more progress downloading/ingesting NewFest content: Ingested the Anhell69 DCP to Theater 3. Downloaded the rest of the shorts we have links for and ingested those to Theater 1 (this leaves two shorts which we're waiting on). There is also one more feature with a link we still need to download. It's This Place . The notes on the spreadsheet says we need to make an account to download it and we'll only have one shot so best to do this when little is going on in the building and we can monitor it. Let's start this first thing during the Tuesday admin, when Jack and I will be here at 10am. I'm also copying all the NewFest DCPs to the Preshow & Trailers hard drive since it has so much space and it will be helpful to keep all these files in one place. I believe I got everything, but if you see something that wasn't copied over please copy it and remove it from any other drive/computer. One note about one of the shorts, ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Continued downloading NewFest content: The Device that Turned Me Into A Cyborg (DPCII), The Year Long Boulder (DCPII), Manoa Valley (DCPII). All have been ingested to TMS along with Where Do We Go From Here. Do Digital Curanderas...  downloaded as well but the ingest failed. Downloaded the new Nick Cave documentary Mutiny In Heaven: Nick Cave's Birthday Party-- currently located on the 4/6 desktop. Highlighted all downloaded content in green ("Nitehawk Download Complete") to indicate it's been ingested as well (Newfest 35 print traffic sheet). Inspected the last two reels of New Jack City. It's in nice condition. Uploaded stills to Drive, Conrad notified. Put The Little Princess on house reels. Wasn't able to build 9/29 playlists as none of the new preshow content is currently available. Should be ready by tomorrow/Tuesday. 4/6 swept and mopped, trash taken out. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Sp...

To do this evening/ was completed: Hello all! Please continue NewFest downloads and be sure to check/mark the spreadsheet for each one! Thanks a million.  Downloaded and ingested a lot of NewFest shorts today! We're looking good.  Monster Cookie , Rumplestiltskin , Pritty , The Prince's Dilemma , Skin , Somewhere all Boys ..., Ticks , Throckadasia , Vapor Trails - those last five are still ingesting! I am downloading Where Do We Go From Here to the desktop in 4/6. Please extract and then put on DCPII drive. Thank you! - L I restarted the download of the video portion of the Anhell69 DCP. This did not download last night for some reason, downloading onto the DCPIII drive on the booth 1 iMac. -AL Uploaded all the Industrial Musicals DCPs to the drive for Steve Young. - L Tech'd Pan's Labyrinth and sound for It Lives Inside . - L Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): We go...

To do this evening/ was completed: Please continue to download and ingest DCPs from the NewFest template! Flag any that look off to you, or that you cannot download/ingest. - L 32 Sounds went just fine this evening! We started a wee bit late at the beginning since not everyone had arrived yet, but then once we did, Philip had some issues with sound. We paused the opening for about 2-3 minutes since he accidentally added the wrong file in for the show. They tech'd sound for about 30 minutes before preshow and everything was set, he just added the wrong file into the software when he went to reset in the software before the show. Before the show, John requested I set up the camera to record the Q&A, so we've got that file ready.  Just as a heads up - The 1min NPP Slide is for preshow and not an actual slide for intros. For intros, if the event memo ever says it's the NH logo, use the file that reads Slide_NPP_Logo_Update.  Got the labels on the bins with Philip and gave t...

To do this evening/ was completed: Tech'd Burn After Reading-- brought the feature volume up to 6.0. Noticed the CallForSubs trailer sounded a bit harsh at 4.0 so I brought it down to 3.8 and updated all playlists. Tech'd It Lives Inside-- all good. Uploaded keys for Pan's and Pee Wee. These don't become active until midnight. Tech'd Krull playlist--all good to go. Built the playlist for 32 Sounds-- should be fine but we'll review before the event. The Creator feature CCAP and OCAP ingested to TMS. Inspected the last reel of Benjamin Button and re-inspected Prince of Darkness and packaged it up for outgoing--reached out to Evelyn to try to coordinate DHL pickup. Continued downloading NewFest content: Cora Bora feature to the T1 desktop, Ship: A Visual Poem and Blind  to the DCPII drive. New Jack City arrived--brought up to T1. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): It ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: The second to last round in theater 7 ( The Equalizer 3 @ 7:45PM) did not begin as scheduled and its pre-show was delayed by approximately 7 minutes before the MODs radioed up and it was started manually Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Death Becomes Her drag performance and screening went very smoothly despite an initial 10 minute delay to the pre-show for the performers' rehearsals/light & music cue tech Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): One sheets for Aquaman: The Lost Kingdom  and Stop Making Sense were delivered and stored behind 3/7 Ordering/Receiving (content): Lillian began downloading Something You Said Last Night  to the DCPII drive but this ran out of space before it could finish and needed to be transferred to the DCPIII drive; keys for It Lives Inside and Theater Camp  were delivered and uploaded Rear Window was ingested to the TMS Outgoing/Shipping (con...

To do this evening/ was completed: Hey everyone, the holidays are already coming up around the corner, so I've sent out a form to get everyone's preferences for holidays off. The form asks you to rank Thanksgiving day, Christmas Eve, Christmas day, New Years Eve, and New Years day from 1-5 in the order in which you would prefer to have off (1 is what you'd most like off, 5 the least). Please fill it out as soon as you can, thanks! -AL When she was teching Benjamin Button Lillian told me the picture was extremely jittery, which confused me because I'd just worked on P1 and ran a loop and it looked fine. She was using P2, though, and I must not have retightened the turret on this one perfectly yesterday when I was working on these projectors. I resat it properly and the picture looked good after that. -AL A heads up that Lillian reminded me of today: LSC is coming up at the beginning of next month! Lillian and I will pull out the mixer and flesh out this section of the m...

To do this evening/ was completed: Double events didn't slow me down tonight, but Death Becomes Her needs to be built and scheduled first thing Presentation Issues: During The Nun II in Theater 3 during the last round, the masking didn't adjust to scope through automation. I was in the midst of ending the Industrial Musicals event so I couldn't get down there immediately. I tried to walk Jared through it, but ultimately went down there myself. When I first went ot the manual controls, they didn't work and noticed that the power strip had been turned off.  Once I turned that back on, I was able to adjust the masking.  Automation in Theater 7 didn't start so I had to do manual starts for the last two rounds Preshow Clips/Playlist: I was looking at the automation for tomorrow and noticed that not only has Death Becomes Her hasn't been scheduled, the playlist hasn't been built. We were missing the Queer Camp preshow clips to match the trailer list so I started...

To do this evening/ was completed: Built Dumb Money and It Lives Inside playlists, TMS scheduled for the upcoming week. Built the 9/25 NoBudge playlist as well, with all masking/lens/volume cues included. Rear Window ingested to T2.  Wired mic set up in T1. Reviewed reseating the IMB with Alec--very easy. Philip from 32 Sounds came by to tech the feature and equipment. The movie will run off a file connected to our HDMI/DVI input in T1. Got a complaint last night that the volume for Haunting in Venice was too low. Bumped it to 6.3 and it sounded right--updated all playlists. Brought The Dark Knight down to the side entrance and Matthew picked it up a short while later. Inspected reels eight and nine of Benjamin Button-- just #10 left. Downloaded the zip file for Dismantle Me-- it's still going as I write this, almost finished. It's on the desktop. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: I checked through the Industrial Musicals playlist and added a few automation cues, wen...

To do this evening/ was completed: Prince of Darkness went well enough if the audience applause at the end of it is a decent indication. But for me it was a bit frustrating--I started the film on P1 and there was a prominent side-to-side jitter on screen, so I increased the gate tension which then required me to refocus the image, but the jitter remained so I tightened the gate some more which seemed to resolve the bounce but the right side of the screen became very blurry with the left and center portions very much in focus. It was toward the end of the first reel so I didn't adjust further until after the changeover. Then on P2 the image was somewhat out of focus, so I had to adjust for that, and then basically ride focus for both reels on that projector. Reels three and five on P1 definitely featured some bounce but it seemed a little less prominent than before. Print has been rewound ready for re-inspection tomorrow. Also it seems Prince was never tech'd as I couldn't f...

To do this evening/ was completed: Hi team. Another friendly reminder to keep downloading NewFest shorts/features! I know there's still quite a few we haven't received yet, but keep an eye out for new links in the template and don't forget to say "download complete" in the last tab. We should be getting the film schedule today. Please check for any preshow content we don't have downloaded yet or that we're waiting on. TMS will need to be scheduled, too.  Note: today we received 6 bins of headphones for the 32 Sounds event on Thursday. Will and I brought these up. They're in 4/6 by the T6 projectors.  Today I downloaded and ingested the following NewFest shorts:  Crary Lake Boats and Floats AC Unit How To Carry Water I Identify As Me Gold and Mud Presentation Issues: Noticed the picture in T1 flickering again during the first round of Bottoms . Ran a full white test pattern between rounds and confirmed it was there. Jack took a look and confirmed too. -...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Tested four different assisted listening devices in theater 7 this afternoon, none of which seemed to work, despite being set to the correct auditorium and tested on both channels (a guest asked for one during the second round of Oppenheimer  -- which has an HI component -- and opted for a closed captioning device instead which was receiving a signal) update: reset the Fidelio device in booth 7 and this resolved the connectivity issue; tested another device and got normal audio playback  During the fourth round in theater 6 ( The Equalizer 3 @ 6:45PM) the screen went dark despite the lamp/dowser being struck/open; MODs radioed to alert me to this and reopening the dowser from the touchpad fixed the issue (double checked the show playlist to see that nothing triggered the dowser to close but there was no cues attached to the CPL that could have caused this error) Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV...

To do this evening/ was completed: Came in to find T3 IMB connection lost. Restarted the power on the projector and the IMB went down thirty minutes later. First two rounds in T3 canceled. Lillian was around and she ended up re-seating the IMB which resolved the issue for now. We ran content for a few hours with no issue. But DMS will have to come back to investigate further. Alec, if we can review reseating the IMB on Tuesday that would be very helpful. The Dark Knight went very smoothly. I rewound the film back onto shipping reels--reels 1-4 heads out and once I realized it would be faster to leave them tails out I did that for reels 5-7. Projectors cleaned after the screening. 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 s...

To do this evening/ was completed: Hey everyone. NewFest is emerging, so please remember to keep downloading as much as you can, and be sure to check and mark the "download complete"section of the spreadsheet. We don't want to download anything twice!  Some manual starts. No issues. Closed captioning/listening devices taken out and safely put back.  Dj is back in the box in Trees!  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Downloaded and/or and ingested the following from the NewFest master template:  The Script Crush Icebergs Sam and the Universe Mikey's Army I Love Nancy Meyers Pipes  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Started downloading the 25min, 15min, and 5min Queer Camp preshow to the preshows & trailers drive (for Death Becomes Her). All will be ready for ingest tomorrow morning!  Transferred Death Becomes Her to T2 so we can tech this soon. Transferred Burn...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: The Dark Knight went well! Rewound the print and cleaned the projectors for tomorrow. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): The Almamuda DCP download failed because there was not enough space on the Mac mini’s internal hard drive. I restarted the download onto the DCPIII drive. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Brought Benjamin Button up to booth 1 and started inspecting, made it through the first two reels. It’s in great shape! Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Timing for Dark Knight was off, cue sheets had the feature runtime as 2hr 12min as opposed to 2hr 32min. I adjusted it and radioed MOD before the show started. Then noticed the trailers at the front of the first reel and adjusted tomorrow’s sheet to account for those. Marquee updat...

To do this evening/ was completed: Ingested the River Phoenix trailer, as well as Pee Wee feature to T1. Built all upcoming trailer packs, 9/22 first run and special events playlists, with the exception of Death Wish and New Jack City as we are waiting on some content to complete those. Continued downloading NewFest content: I Love Nancy Meyers and Pipes. Both of those are on the DCPII drive, as well as the zip file for Mikey's Army, which I couldn't extract with Keka/Unarchiver. Tidied 4/6 and gave it a sweep and mop. Cue sheets checked and cross-checked. 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?: Additi...

To do this evening/ was completed: Last night I went through the sound setup for Spotify with Will, so if anyone needs a refresher for how to hook this up, I added a Spotify section to the projectionist manual here . Please continue downloading NewFest shorts. I downloaded Lucky Fish and Last Call to the DCPII, they're ingesting right now. AlmaMula is downloading via Cyberduck in T1. Successfully downloaded Chestnut to the desktop in 4/6, but have yet to extract. Please extract this evening if the comp is feeling up to the task.  You might've noticed that our PC is currently down in T4. We're 98 percent certain it's the drive. I ran diagnostics today, but it won't get back up. This isn't a huge issue since we can tap into T4 elsewhere, but we'll talk to DMS about it. I emailed them today for other, more pressing matters.  I set up a USB extender in Theater 5 for the CaptiView transmitter. I tested a closed caption device around the room and it's work...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: There seems to be some white noise and/or static coming out of the right rear surround speaker in theater 4 (not enough to distract or that can be heard during the feature but it sounds like air filtering through a vent) Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: A Sigh of Origin screening in theater 2 went smoothly after some minor troubleshooting with the audio for their Spotify playlist; ended up having to manually pan one of the spotlight fixtures between the guests on stage since the chairs stretched across the length of it were too widely spaced to be covered by the centered spotlights Step Brothers screening in theater 3 this evening; removed the content from the TMS after the show Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): The Bikeriders posters were delivered and stored in the cubby behind 3/7 Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Checked Step Brothers for tonight, it's good to go. -AL We're remaking the DCP of Like Water for Chocolate, the one we had didn't have subtitles. This is transcoding onto the DCPII drive on the 4/6 iMac. It should be ready to ingest tomorrow morning. -AL Started transcoding Krull to DCP for the private event on the 21st. -AL Reinspected and packed up Fear of a Black Hat. -AL Set up the chairs and mics for the Pavement event in T1. Made sure Alex and his crew felt happy and comfortable, both in the booth and in the theatre. Briefly tech'd the DCP and wash with Cristina and Alex. Whole thing went super well! Everyone was very pleased. Thanks, all, for helping to make this as smooth as possible.  Set up the mics and chairs in T2 for this evening. I patched in 2 wired mics (they initially told me 2 despite it saying 1 on the event memo. An extra--should they need it--certainly won't hurt.  I took down the letters on the marquee for Pa...

To do this evening/ was completed:  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Alec ran the archival print of Fear of a Black Hat in theater 4; set up the mics/mixer for karaoke at Trees Lounge this evening Fear of a Black Hat  went well! I removed the failsafe (for the automation console) from P1 and replaced it with a single roller, I think this is what was causing occasional breaks to the countdown leader. Worked well during tonight's show. -AL Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Alec started running the blu-ray rip of  Krull through HandBrake this evening; new KDMs for  Passages were ingested for tomorrow Outgoing/Shipping (content): Godzilla (1998) print is on the cart and will be picked up tomorrow afternoon Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Organized the poster cubby in the 3/7 booth and added some first run film posters to the ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Hey team, Kim from NewFest sent over the master template we'll be using to keep track of content. I requested editing access for all of us since we'll all have a hand in downloading and converting. As per her note for the feature Chestnut , I downloaded this to the desktop today since the link expires tomorrow. It is still downloading, but please mark it on the spreadsheet once it's finished. Flagged Kim about a faulty link for one of the features Anhell69 . Apparently the server they're using is currently down. She'll look into it.  Had our cinema meeting. All content is in.  We're looking good for tomorrow morning (Range Life). We'll have enough time to check out the slides/washes/spots with Alex tomorrow and liase with his crew to make sure they feel comfortable in the theatre.  Friendly reminder - please be sure to jot down in the blog where you're transcoding files to. This saves time. One more note: when it comes ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Would have been a great day apart from the mishap during Secret Ceremony tonight. But otherwise it was a good night.  Presentation Issues: During the second to last reel of Secret Ceremony , Reel 5 snapped just as the countdown went through the projector. Somehow, I didn't hear it snap, but then noticed when the film was gathering on the ground. When I noticed I stopped the screening and walkied MOD what was happening. Alec was also in the audience and came up to help get it back up and running quickly. We were able to fix it and got it up and running after about 5 minutes or so.  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Secret Ceremony went really well otherwise. It was shaping to be the best show I had run here. Framing was on point, threading easy, and cues a breeze. But then the incident with the changeover to reel 5 threw off that momentum. Alec thankfully helped me get it back up and running quickly, but I'm ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Started a new DCP for Pavement: Range Life last night in 4/6, it should finish transcoding tonight. Please ingest to Theater 1 once it finishes, we're teching this tomorrow for an event on Thursday at noon. Swapped out the Marie Antoinette posters, put the old stuff back in. The MA posters are rolled up inside tubes residing in 3/7. Reset all the dimmer panels after being notified the fire alarm went off last night, checked all theaters to make sure everything was back to normal. Set up a mic and mixer in T4 for the intro tonight--the gear was still down in T5 with all the power on when I found it. Ran loops for Secret Ceremony-- framing and focus set.  T6 round three Opp wasn't scheduled as OCAP--fixed that. Tech'd all NoBudge shorts with Desmond--volumes and aspect ratios logged--they all look and sound great. Removed the CallForSubs trailer as we wait to receive and ingest V3. Started building next week's cue sheets, without listing...

To do this evening/ was completed: Downloaded and ingested the Call For Subs trailer, added to listed trailer packs. Built most of the remaining SE playlists and scheduled the upcoming week in the TMS. Put up Marie Antoinette posters with Chenelle--we decided to add pieces of tape to the backs of the posters and tape them against the frame to avoid damaging them, host was fine with it. Had to bump the volume to 7.5, but the private event went smoothly. Printed out a shipping label for Bullet to the Head and put the print by the side entrance door. The Pavement preshow DCP finished transcoding in 4/6 so I started testing audio of the feature in 4/6 DCPoMatic. Took a long time to transfer the content onto the DCPII drive. Put Prince of Darkness on house reels. We received posters for Passages. I tried to put one up outside but there were bikes in the way preventing me from erecting the ladder. Will put it up tomorrow. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Okay! hello. Lots going on today. As y'all know, we have two private events on 9/14: Pavement and A Sigh of Origin .  Today we had a tech scheduled with the filmmakers/hosts of A Sigh of Origin and when I went to throw their film up on screen just to set everything up beforehand, I unfortuntely did not get sound nor image. We had a conversation and I worked with Taylor (DP/tech person) and we tried ingesting another DCP on his drive that was apparently the same but looked like a more proper file. It didn't work (Taylor informed me that he stacked the jpeg files for the intro and q&a in the same DCP as the film, which is what I think contributed to the problem among a few other things I can explain later), but to make a long story short, I remade their DCP in house and managed to ingest and get eyes on it three minutes before Barbie opened up in T2 today. It looks and sounds gorgeous. I had Taylor give me the slides for the intro and Q...

To do this evening/ was completed: Converted the last NoBudge short, Friyay, to DCP and ingested it along with the four other shorts that had yet to be ingested to TMS. After ingesting everything, I transferred all content to T2. Took down Blue Beetle letters. Organized, swept and mopped T2 booth. There was a good amount of detritus hanging around so it feels a bit more pleasant now. Took and uploaded 35mm stills of Black Hat.  T7 Christie lost image at the very end of round three. Restarted the IMS and tech'd content quickly between rounds--picture and sound were fine, issue was resolved for the night. Kung Fu Panda and SoF preshow content removed from servers. Marie Antoinette posters received--residing in 3/7. 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/cleanin...

To do this evening/ was completed: Forgot to mention this in my blog yesterday but the T7 lamp has reached the warranty hour threshold. It will be fine for a few more days. We have replacements, I can change it when I'm back on Tuesday. Put The Dark Knight on house reels. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Sundays on Fire went very nicely! Bullet in the Head looked really good overall. Just a note: the spotlight board and wireless mic mixer were not reconnected in the booth after Spoons on Thursday. Please put everything back to normal when you breakdown. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Reinspected the first two reels of Bullet in the Head . They're back on shipping reels. The rest is tails out under the bench. Lillian, can you continue this tomorrow? Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/...

To do this evening/ was completed: Pretty much all quiet on the western front this evening. I wound up hearing that the level for Bottoms was too low (which it was), so as with the old playlists, I brought the volume up to around 6.0. Adjusted both CCAP and OCAP for 9/8 and 9/15.  Presentation Issues: Round 4 of the Equalizer  in T6 was scheduled with a regular playlist as opposed to the T6 specific one, but I caught and changed it before the show.  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Made the playlist for Marie Antoinette . Got the credits info. We'll have to get volume Monday morning, but I updated the cue sheets.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Worked on the NoBudge shorts tonight. Finished transcoding Sweet Green to the DCPII drive. Transcoded  Up and Coming  and  Flail, the latter of which is still finishing up transcoding to the DCPIII drive. Was trying to figure out which others had been made the other night and found Singles Retreat on the d...