NPP Projection Blog

To do this evening/ was completed: New Iron Claw keys uploaded. Continued downloading the last of the NSF shorts. All set for content until 2/10. Presentation Issues: Bit of a rocky evening with 32 Sounds. Jonah, the sound tech, couldn't seem to get audio into the wireless headphones and through our processor at the same time when he tried playing the feature from his laptop--he would only get it from one output. He was able to get audio into both outputs (headphones and processor) with other test clips, but not the feature. It seemed like each clip had to go through some sort of configuration individually. I could tell early on he was getting pretty flustered and he attempted many input reconfigurations within the software he was using. Nothing seemed to work, and we ended up teching audio in front of the crowd (on and off) while the preshow visuals played. I don't think it was that prominent to them though. I rewound some preshow bits once or twice to give us more time. We en...

To do this evening/ was completed: Just so everyone knows,  Blazing Saddles has about a minute of credits so I've added on 2 min of black at the end for servers. TMS reflects this. Cue sheets updated. Please remember to double check first run formulas- Origin/Argylle were off. Make note if you're unsure about the credits info for first run features that haven't been tech'd yet or don't have that info readily available.  Made a list of everything Jack and I need to tech starting tomorrow, which is on the desk in 4/6, but writing it here for posterity: Bunch of keys opening up tomorrow! NewFestxHBO, Don't Tell Her It's Me, Yi Yi, Paddington 2, Airplane, Boy n Heron, Oppenheimer, Argylle.  No one came to the T5 round 1 screening of Wonka, so we turned it off.  Argylle staff screenings out.  Still downloading/converting NH shorts.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Scheduled the Airplane playlist for T7 and transferred the cpl since it was in T6....

To do this evening/ was completed: The night was dominated by the longest 35mm show I've run so far and after prepping for it all month, it went off without a hitch.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: The Deer Hunter went great! Despite me trying to chase the framing a bit in the first reel, once we were running, it went smooth. Framing, transitions, focus were all on point. My longest show so far was a success. Everything's shut down and set.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Updated Iron Claw keys are uploaded  Outgoing/Shipping (content): Walter came by to pick up the Heat and Goodfellas trailers Print/video Inspection: Did a post-inspection of The Deer Hunter . It's on its shipping reels and packed except for the second can where part of the can is now missing. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?:  Maintenance/cleaning: I cleaned the 35mm projectors in Theate...

To do this evening/ was completed: Ran loops in T1, frame and focus set. Projectors cleaned afterward. Built T4 and T6-specific playlists and scheduled the coming week in the TMS. Built new columns for new titles in the first run formulas tab, cue sheets themselves have yet to be built. Ran through 32 Sounds setup with Jonah and John. We took the DVI adapter from T2 and brought it to T1 for the show. Tech went smoothly. DCP'd Cristina's slide for Don't Tell Her It's Me. The image looks a bit stretched but not so bad. Continued downloading and ingesting NSF shorts, tech spreadsheet updated. HBO content was downloaded and ingested to TMS. Was not able to download PS_FR_Argylle_5min. Please do so if you have time and add it to Argylle playlists. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai is here, in booth 1. Noticed a Paddi...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: The final round in theater 2 paused playback and was delayed by three minutes Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ran loops for scope in theater 1 and cleaned both projectors prior to the screening of  The Fan screening this evening (this went very smoothly; picture and sound were sharp throughout) Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Additional  Dune 2 posters were delivered and stored behind 3/7 Ordering/Receiving (content): Continued converting NSF24 shorts content to DCP and copied all available files to the DCPII drive from the NSF one; these were ingested to the TMS this evening Car Wash was delivered this afternoon and brought up to 4/6 Downloaded and ingested new keys for The Boy and the Heron Yi Yi feature content became available this evening through EclairPlay and was ingested to the TMS Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Re-inspected The Fan following t...

To do this evening/ was completed: Gonna be a quick day! Please keep downloading, organizing, and ingesting all the Nitehawk shorts you're responsible for, and please remember to update the asset sheet as soon as you complete each task. Thanks!  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Added another minute to the playlist for The Fan to make the timing more spot on. Checked the Deer Hunter playlist.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: The event memo for 32 Sounds has been filled out. The host will run the event using their laptop. I built the playlist for this. I added the spotlight info to the memo.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Received more/new Dune II posters. Stored in 3/7.  Ordering/Receiving (content): At some point tomorrow, we're to receive the exhibition files for the HBOxNewFest screening. My Aspera account is up and open (in my google profile the login info is saved in case you get locked out, but the pw is also available ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues:  Preshow Clips/Playlist:  Mean Girls  sounded very loud at 6.5 (with a smaller crowd + during the musical sequences) so I brought the volume in the SPLs down to 5.5 Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Kept the NFL playoffs programming on at Trees through the evening until both games concluded  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Airplane!  was ingested to the TMS and transferred to theater 6 for the private event on Saturday (deleted this from the TMS once the transfer to 6 was complete) Continued downloading and converting NSF24 shorts content to DCP and saved all files to the NSF-NPP hard drive Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: No leaks in booth 2 this evening despite the inclement weather Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Double checked the cue sheets for tomorrow against t...

To do this evening/ was completed: Set up mic and mixer in T6 for Matthew's private event, things went smoothly. Broke down the equipment afterward, but didn't return the mixer to T4, where I got it. Downloaded and ingested Late Round and Generic_Romance preshow content, built playlists for Blazing Saddles, Sense and Sensibility, Streets of Fire and Don't Tell Her It's Me.  Bumped Raging Bull volume slightly. Removed that and Magnificent Obsession from servers after screenings concluded. We don't have content for 32 Sounds and Sense and Sensibility yet. We ran a DCP for 32 Sounds last time right? Reached out to John. NFL playing in Trees. 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 upd...

To do this evening/ was completed: A quiet night. No issues this evening. Made the rounds to check on each room/booth.  Notice on the cue sheets that for tomorrow, Magnificent Obsession ends at 1:29, but on the TMS it's 1:31. 1:29 end time was listed for today's screening as well, so my assumption is that it was fine?  Note: when you go to log into the TMS, use admin as the username and 1234 for the password. For whatever reason, Alec and I have no idea why the username root and its Google saved password isn't working, but the aforementioned is.  Assisted listening device put back in the storage room.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Double checked to make sure everything's good to go for Hudson's Birthday bash in T6 tomorrow. Playlist is all set and scheduled on the TMS. Please remember that Hudson will need a mic. I set both the feature and the short at resectable volumes, but of course you can adjust as need be. Spotlight remote for T6 is on the ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Chris from DMS worked on the TMS remotely last night and fixed the scheduling database on the TMS. Screens 2, 3, and 7 are displaying their schedules on the TMS page again, and content will automatically get ingested based on the scheduled showtime. Assisted listening device in Th3 for the 5pm Zone of Interest . Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Raging Bull and Magnificent Obsession went well, I raised the volume to 7.0 for Raging Bull since there was a fairly large crowd today. Not looking as big for tomorrow so I left the playlist as is, but check it when the feature starts. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Ingested Blazing Saddles . Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Inspected the rest of Space Jam and all of Shaft . All reels are tails out in their shipping cans. Space Jam looks good, Shaft is slightly beat up but should still ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Removed remaining 1/19 content.  Downloaded and ingested all of the preshow content listed in Kat's trailer list email, as well as preshow content for Oscar nominated features returning next week. A1 2/2 playlists built, with the exception of Barbie, Oppenheimer and Boy and the Heron, as those have yet to be uploaded to Eclair. **I removed the PSA_NPP_BOGO piece from a few of the R-rated feature playlists, as they exceeded 41:00 minutes with that piece included. Can reach out to Kat later, but curious what the preference would be here: playlist exceeding 40 minutes of preshow or nixing something to keep things tight. Restarted the 4/6 desktop per Alec's instruction so DMS can remote in later. Took a look at Raging Bull after T1 let out. Picture and sound (6.0) are good to go. Inspected the first three reels of Space Jam. Decent condition overall, some prominent base-scratching. Double-checked the cue sheets for tomorrow. They're all set b...

To do this evening/ was completed: Reminder that we need to manually ingest playlists to servers 2, 3, and 7 while their schedules aren't showing up on the TMS. Due to whatever issue is causing that, content doesn't get automatically sent over 3 days before the scheduled showtime like usual. Magnificent Obsession and the Classic Pictures preshow wasn't on the Theater 3 server this morning. The easiest way to make sure all content is ingested for the scheduled shows is to use the "Ingest SPL" function which you get to from the Playlist Builder page on the TMS, circled below. You can then send a playlist to a particular screen and all missing content will be ingested right away. I did this for everything in 2, 3, and 7 for tonight and this weekend. In the screenshot below I've just sent the Babies Poor Thing s playlist to Theater 2. Ordered new walkie earpieces which should definitely fit the walkie, should be here sometime over the weekend pending the order...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Desmond was here to see Taxi Driver  and dropped off the NSF - NPP external hard drive for us us to use Taxi Driver screening in theater 1 this evening went smoothly Airplane! finished converting to DCP and is currently transferring to the DCPIII in booth 1 Continued converting NSF24 shorts content to DCP and saved the files to the NSF - NPP external drive Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Oscar Nominated Shorts posters were delivered in addition to extra  Drive Away Dolls and Lisa Frankenstein one sheets Ordering/Receiving (content): Received and ingested feature content for Streets of Fire ; ingested the DCP file for  Foot Trouble Jack started converting earlier this afternoon Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Re-inspected Taxi Driver  and wound it back onto its shipping reels Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: ...

To do this evening/ was completed:  Checked T2, 3 and 7 servers independently to make sure the schedule/sheets are sound for today. There's two manual starts in T3, so just keep an eye out for those.  Desmond will be bringing over a fresh drive for Nitehawk Shorts tomorrow. We'll have loads of space to put content!  Paddington 2 re-ingested to T6. Ran loops for Taxi Driver, framing and focus set, projectors cleaned afterward. Live Wire letters down, Deer Hunter up. Downloaded and ingested NSF 24 content: Haircare and Palm Sunday ingested to TMS. DCP for Foot Trouble in the works in 4/6. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Quite a few keys opening up tomorrow/teching with Cristina. Checked to make sure both features we're teching tomorrow have been transferred to their respective theatres. Raging Bull keys don't go live until midnight 1/27 morning so the feature will have to be looked at Friday night or Saturday morning. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set u...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: One of the ceiling/cleaning lights began flickering between rounds in theater 2 this evening. I experimented with bringing the lights to their pre-show level, then all the way down, to try and stop this, but the flickering persisted. After a few minutes it stopped flickering altogether so I went through the process of seeing how it responded to other light levels again, though, it seemed to have remedied itself. I will be keeping an eye on this through the next two rounds. Alec is aware of it and reached out to Matthew after we spoke on the phone. One of the other lights in this auditorium will not turn on and needs to be replaced. The photo below indicates which of these is experiencing issues: Update: the light began flickering again during the feature. I searched the theater with a few MODs to try to find the ladder big enough to reach the ceiling but could not. I called Juan to ask about the ladder and he said it would take mo...

To do this evening/ was completed:  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist:  * Noticed we had a regular screening of Poor Things scheduled for the matinee on 1/30 in T2, which is supposed to be a Babies screening. Made a playlist for this and rescheduled it.  *Adjusted the playlist for tonight's screening of  Live Wire  to update the preshow content with V2. I deleted the old preshow content from the TMS so there's no confusion.  *Ingested the V1.2  Comics preshow for Hudson's birthday. Tech'd all content. Built out the playlist. This is ready for Sunday!  LH Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ripped Airplane in MakeMK, then threw it into Handbrake. Feel free to DCP this tonight once it's done! LH Put one of the spotlights from Theater 4 in the Theater 6 ceiling, and changed the batteries in the other, so both are working for Sunday. Remote is in 4/6. I played one of the NoBudge shorts in Theater 2 to see if the pops/crackles from ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Scheduled the coming week in TMS and built the cue sheets. Please double-check if you have time. Double-checked Analyze This playlist, all good. Uploaded new keys for Wonka, Poor Things and  Mean Girls. Wasn't able to upload T7-specific keys, so if someone could do that soon much appreciated. **We don't have new Iron Claw keys yet. Current ones expiring after Thursday night screenings, the 5.1 keys I mean. 7.1 expire after Friday night. Tech'd all 2/5 NoBudge shorts with Desmond and built a playlist with all cues included (SE_NoBudge_020524). Reset our 1.78 masking in T1 afterward as it was a bit too tight. Just a few notes about the NoBudge shorts: The DCP for Normal Guys is listed at 1.78 but it's actually about a 1.60 ratio, so there will be some pillarboxing. The first Telling George short is letterboxed in 1.78. Also our 1.37/1.33 masking leaves a small amount of pillarboxing on each side of the frame. I did not have time to inves...

To do this evening/ was completed: A quiet night, but it gave me some time to prep for the next couple 35mm shows I have coming up.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Trivia was a breeze as usual. Everything was broken down and put back. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Updated Iron Claw keys uploaded Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: I did a photo/cue pass at both the rest of The Deer Hunter and Super Fly . Everything's on the reels I found them on.   Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Cross referenced with automation and set Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projection cart by entrance?: Additional Notes:

To do this evening/ was completed: Bumped Midnight Run volume slightly, show went smoothly. Tidied up booth five a bit, picking up detritus and dusting accessible surfaces. Built T6-specific 1/26 playlists and started scheduling the coming week in the TMS.  A week out from The Fan screening. Sony rep says the print should arrive two days before our screening. Not sure if this is the usual timeframe but that means we'll get it Saturday, if it doesn't come earlier. Whiteboards updated. Presentation Issues: No more issues in T3 tonight but a note about the missing content. I actually scheduled the Origin OCAP playlist from the TMS then went to T3 IMS to check that it had populated on the schedule, which it had. This is always how content gets transferred in advance, so I figured that's what would happen. I imagine T3 appearing somewhat offline in TMS is related to this failed content transfer. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receivi...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: None to report in theaters 4 and 6 as these are (thankfully) working just fine and all trailers have played before each feature A guest here for the opening round complained that the volume was too loud during the pre-show in theater 3. Paul radioed me to double check it but said everything sounded fine to him. I went down and stood in the back of the room while the policy was playing (everything did, in fact, sound fine, this guest was just a little older and seemed to be more sensitive to the levels) when all of a sudden the clip ended and the house lights came back up. I ran to check on the issue from 3/7 as quickly as I could and saw the feature ( Origin  OCAP) had been ejected. At first I thought it was a keys issue but it did not take long for me to realize that the OCAP file itself was not present on the theater server (which was odd considering it had been scheduled via the IMS but never transferred over). I went up to...

To do this evening/ was completed: Kept an eye on theaters 4 and 6 given the technical issues we have been experiencing in these auditoriums the past few days...neither of these had any problems throughout the night Presentation Issues: The cable box went into sleep mode up in 4/6 so the game went down at Trees; MODs radioed and a simple press of the power button on the box brought it back up Preshow Clips/Playlist: A couple of manual starts this evening in theaters 3 and 4 Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: NFL games were kept running throughout the evening down at Trees Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): A poster for  Lisa Frankenstein was delivered and stored in the cubby behind 3/7 Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Double checked the SPLs scheduled on the TMS and checked theaters 2, 3, and 7 individually; shutdo...

To do this evening/ was completed: No trailer/playlist issues in T4 and 6, shows have gone smoothly so far. A few MODs reached out to me to ask about this today, told them we were good to go and then asked if they were receiving the projection blogs, as there was extensive description of the issue and resolution in the last few entries. Was told they aren't receiving these blog posts, so could be useful to add them. Taxi Driver went very smoothly, print is rewound, ready for Thursday night. Projectors cleaned after the screening. Runner mentioned that 7.0 seemed slightly too high for Mean Girls in T2. Was a fine volume in T1 but I decided to split the difference and bring things to 6.5 after listening in. Playlists updated. Uploaded keys for Midnight Run. Ingested Thomasine and Bushrod to T2. Transferred OCAP Origin to T3 . Removed 1/22 T3 round three as it was scheduled to overlap with the second round. All set on content for the coming seven days. Football back on the screen in T...

To do this evening/ was completed: Quiet night. Kept an eye on rooms 4 & 6 to make sure the playlists didn't give us any grief. The only thing that seemed strange is one playlist (Origin) started credits later than expected (2 minutes) in T4, which Wyatt radioed me about. It wasn't a big deal, but I was aware of it for the rest of the night. The playlists are all accurate. Last round was just fine.  Did a TMS sweep and cleared more content we don't need. Sent the NoBudge shorts to T1.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Double checked everything once again. Checked every playlist scheduled for T4/T6 when they were queued up.  2, 3 and 7 stayed fine all night.  Went through the playlists for 1/26 and checked the SE playlists to see that they match the event memos for the coming days.  Started on the DCP of  Thomasine and Bushrod for Shouting at the Screen in 4/6. This is finishing to the DCPII drive. This should be done and ready to ingest by t...

To do this evening/ was completed: T7 server is holding up, since it's remaining on (the issue we were having with it was that it would often simply power itself down 30 minutes after turning on, but luckily this didn't happen after the updates yesterday) we should not have any more issues until we get an IMS3 to replace the current server in there. No more appearing offline every few seconds on the TMS. Schedules are still not showing up on the TMS, but if you drag and drop the playlist you want to schedule in the TMS schedule as normal for Th7, the playlist will get scheduled despite not appearing on the TMS schedule. You can confirm on the IMS webpage. Same goes for Th2 and Th3. FYI -- I ordered us some new earpieces for the walkie, 6 total so we can each have our own plus a spare. The one with my name on isn't working well, and Jack's has something loose in the earpiece which rattles around so it'll probably stop working soon, too. The ones I ordered should als...

To do this evening/ was completed: No issues in T7 this evening. Built all 1/26 playlists, including Raging Bull, Magnificent Obsession, The Fan and The Deer Hunter.  Cleared all 1/12 content from servers. Went through the upload logs in T7 IMS to check for Poor Things, as Lillian had mentioned re-uploading a lot of keys today. They were already on the server, having been uploaded previously , but I uploaded them once more just in case. Loaded the show playlist via TMS, no issues. Downloaded the new file of Thomasine and Bushrod that Cristina sent over. It's pretty low resolution so I haven't put it in DCPoMatic yet, waiting on her response. Double-checked tomorrow's SE playlists, those are good to go. **Last round tomorrow night in T3, Zone of Interest, is scheduled in the IMS even though the previous playlist overlaps with it by a minute. The screening is labeled as a manual start on the cue sheet but I just wanted to give a heads up that it is technically scheduled on t...

To do this evening/ was completed: Lots going on today. Unfortunately, we ran into issues with T7. Checked in on the KDMs, realized they were all inactive (when they shouldn't have been) and then checked the date on the IMS, which was in the year 2008. This has happened before, ages ago. We had to cancel the first round. I performed the necessary updates that DMS sent and requested a permanent solution immediately since they've been slow to respond to just about everything lately. Ran content in T7 for awhile and no issues. We'll be fine for now but we're actively working on getting that new IMS ASAP. For posterity, in case anything happens and we need to perform the updates again in T7 (it's super likely we won't and I'd be surprised if we had to since you only need to do this once, really, but you never know), I've saved the files to a folder on the desktop (4/6 comp) labeled T7 IMS Update Files including   back up file (in the third step- on the off c...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: No change(s) to the visibility of theaters 2, 3, and 7 on the TMS schedule tab this evening (the final round in theater 7 was started manually from its IMS portal) Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Another  Cemetery Man screening in theater 3 this evening came and went without any issues Continued downloading and converting NoBudge #37 short content to DCP ( Normal Guys and Scotty's Vag ) Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Removed Inheritance  private event content from theater 2 Print/video Inspection: Teched the All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt show playlist in theater 4 and it looks and sounds fantastic Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Removed Migration and added letters for Origin Posters updated?: Replaced Migration with Origin  u...

To do this evening/ was completed: Tech'd Origin, volume and lights up noted, playlists updated.  Transferred Midnight Run to T1, waiting on keys, which won't be delivered until 1/21, the day before the screening. **At the moment, theaters two and three's playlists schedules are not showing up in the scheduler tab in the TMS. When you go to T2/3's IMS pages, the schedules appear as they should, so there's no need to worry about content missing/not having been scheduled. I tried restarting the TMS, which did not resolve the issue. You are still able to use quick controls and load content in these theaters through TMS, but just a heads up about this. Desmond has sent over the latest round of NoBudge files, I've started downloading to 4/6. So far five DCPs have been made and placed in the NoBudge folder on the desktop: Ola, Ola, Angels Wings and Open Wounds, Telling George, A Men,   Rumplestiltskin and Wise Words. The Google Drive folder Desmond created has a sub f...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Avoided a playback issue this evening as the final round of American Fiction  in theater 6 was improperly scheduled as an OCAP screening (and no "T6" CCAP show playlist for this feature had been built) but I caught the error and corrected it Preshow Clips/Playlist: Received a video intro from the director of  All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt  (Raven Jackson) and converted it to DCP + built and scheduled the show playlist for this film's screenings this weekend (update: tested this video intro and updated its volume; looks and sounds great) Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Cemetery Man screening in theater 3 and the private event for  Inheritance  in theater 2 went smoothly and the drive was returned to the host following the show (the Q&A set up was broken down and the moving spots have been turned off for the time being)  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (cont...

To do this evening/ was completed: Inheritance private event in Th2 tonight. Very straightforward, just a short film screening on DCP with an intro before and a Q&A after. For spots, hit button #3 on the board. Same cue for the intro and the Q&A. Ran through the playlist today and it's all good. Added the first run formulas to the cue sheet template, please use it for next week. The roof hatch in booth 2 is secure. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: I ingested and scheduled everything needed for Th7 for the coming week. Since the connection to the TMS goes in and out, we have to use the IMS webpage to schedule. There is some sort of connection between the Th7 server and the TMS being maintained, though, as ingests automatically triggered from the TMS complete without a problem despite the server going on and offline on the TMS page. You can also use the ingest scan function on the IMS page to ingest SPLs and CPLs from the TMS, Eclair, or other servers. When sched...

To do this evening/ was completed: Easily one of the busier nights I've had in a while with the print and some technical issues, but thankfully nothing too catastrophic. All in all productive. Presentation Issues: For the middle round of American Fiction in Theater 5, I went to load the playlist for a manual start and didn't see the playlist in there. I was trying to troubleshoot the issue and after calling Jack he was able to walk me through what to do. I scheduled a show for tomorrow morning so whatever element we were missing (which turned out to be only one preshow clip) quickly ingested into Theater 5. I was able to get it up and running, but after about 22 minutes into the preshow.  The additional Welcome 5 mins slide at the top of Beautician and the Beast threw off the timing a bit based off the cue sheets. Cristina was confused when it first came on, but I told her it was part of the trailer list. Still, it did make the turnaround into the next round a little too tig...

To do this evening/ was completed: Spent almost the whole shift running the private conference event in T2. Overall it went pretty smoothly, however there was a bit of AV difficulty before things got underway, mainly that it was told to me shortly before the presentations began that the clients needed sound for videos embedded in their presentations, as well as live wireless mics to present with at the same time. Obviously not possible to do both those things at once using the CP750, so I quickly set about trying to set up wired mics connected to the Shure speakers. Ultimately, we started on time, and all of the presenters chose not to use a microphone, but I was having a little difficulty with this request as I was running around the building looking for mic stands, teching the powerpoints with the clients with lights down and going down to Trees repeatedly to restart the Brooklyn Nets logo slide video, as Apple TV kept reverting to a screensaver 5-10 minutes after the video was put o...

To do this evening/ was completed:  Presentation Issues: None to report tonight (theater 4 has not exhibited any dowser issues and theater 7 continues to intermittently appear disconnected/connected to the TMS) Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Angel Heart screening in theater 2 this evening needed a slight volume boost but otherwise went smoothly  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Transferred the DCP copy of  Don't Tell Her It's Me  to the DCPII drive and began ingesting it to the projector in theater 1 Outgoing/Shipping (content): Printed a return label for tomorrow for the Angel Heart DCP and brought it down to the cart with the rest of the outgoing materials Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Added a garbage bag to the bin inside booth 1 + swept and mopped throughout Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Posters updated?...

To do this evening/ was completed: Projection please note that, earlier today, Matthew sent out an email detailing new initiatives for the cue sheets/film bot in order to avoid overlap, tight turnarounds, and to generally just make things more accurate. Take your time reading through it as there's a lot of information. We should be getting the schedule this evening, so please read before scheduling anything. If you're feeling lost, please do not hesitate to email Matthew and I. Thank you so much! Tomorrow we have an important event with Barclays, hosted in both Trees and Theatre 2. I've emailed Jack and Alec some of the details, but will recap here in the SE/AV setup section. Jack, should you need anything before it starts, please feel free to text.  There's an audio device in T2 at seat 2321 for the current Wonka screening. There was some confusion about this since I was first told it was a captiview, then headphones, then the guest asked if I could transfer to VI-N, ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: A "T4" SPL of Poor Things  was scheduled in theater 1 for the final round of the night by mistake which prevented the dowser from opening at the start of the pre-show; Carly took notice of this and radioed me approximately ten minutes into it at which point I opened the dowser via the VNC viewer 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: Forgot to note the other night that I completed an overhaul of several first run one sheets and trivia posters in the cubby behind 3/7 + reorganized the remaining inventory and started a new archival poster tube Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Double checked the showtimes against the TMS and website Marquee updated?: Added letters for  Taxi Driver  to the brunch sid...

To do this evening/ was completed: Screening of The Mission went well today in T1 despite really keeping me on my feet the whole time. Crowd had a lot of fun. I'm going to make some adjustments to P2 on Monday to check in with the alignments. I think we need to adjust the turret again. Also - did anyone make any adjustments to the spots board? The sequence for centre spots did not work this morning, much to my surprise. I'll run through these and reset anything come Monday morning.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: The DCP for Don't Tell Her It's Me didn't properly finish because of space. I cleared the comp and started a new DCP. Should be done by tomorrow evening.  Touched base with Chenelle about the private on Tuesday. I'll be testing the setup Monday morning so that it's ready to go for Tuesday morn. She's not sure what adapter they'll need, but we'll have both out. Also, I'll se...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: The penultimate round of American Fiction in theater 6 had its pre-show cut into by some 10 minutes because the prior screening of Wonka had not been properly forwarded to compensate for the negative flip (MODs were alerted to this error and arriving guests waited patiently outside until they could be seated) 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): Marquee updated?: Removed letters for Mean Streets and The Color Purple  (we do not have enough spare letter I's or number 1's to add any more titles to the 35mm side so it is blank for the time being) Posters updated?: Added Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire  to the lobby and moved Dune Part 2 outside; took down The Col...

To do this evening/ was completed: Mean Streets print went super well this morning. Big, enthusiastic crow.  Presentation Issues: Not a presentation issue, but T7 Christie touch panel (what we access on the comp w/VNC) logged out on its own, which then asks you to enter an Administrator password. (No one knows what the password is, which I've emailed DMS about. Alec kindly responded but wasn't sure either.) This has happened in the past. The thing is that it doesn't tamper with playback, and you can absolutely still access the individual server (IMS), but what's strange is that, on the TMS, the playlists in that theatre will occasionally go red. This doesn't do anything bad, but Alec and I suspect it's a linger issue from the server swap. I wound up restarting the panel (not the projector), which sorted the login issue. Back to normal with the panel. I did, however, scrape my back (despite wearing a coat) while up in the crawl space, so shoutout Jen for putting ...