NPP Projection Report 6/19 Open (and kind of an admin)


To do this evening/ was completed: The last short for the student film series tomorrow morning is converting onto the DCPIV drive. Please ingest all 4 (there are two 3rd grade shorts) to Theater 1 and check them for volume levels tonight after the last round lets out. Please also build the playlist from the run of show in the event memo here.

Bikeriders keys open tomorrow.

Light control automations are working again in T4. I'm not sure exactly why this happened, but the IP address was reset to the factory default after the LMS was power cycled following the fire alarm on Saturday night. My hunch is that I did a factory reset when we were having all those fluorescent flickering and dimmer issues in here (though I surely would've rebooted it after doing so), and the IP reset only took this weekend when the LMS was hard rebooted. Whatever may have happened, it's fine now. 

Important info for resetting theaters after a fire alarm though:
The general protocol for resetting theaters after a fire alarm is to run the "z FIRE ALARM CLEAR" automation macro in the theater and then just press the "Override" button to be able to change the settings again. The fire alarm activates this "Override" switch and turns on all the fixtures, and you can't de-activate the override until you fire the cue. You shouldn't have to unplug anything if a fire alarm goes off for most theaters (you need to manually reset the circuit board on the back of the rack in 3/7 to be able to turn off the override in those theaters, since the cue no longer works in there). But you shouldn't have to unplug any of the A-LMS with buttons which we have in 1, 2, 4, and 6 if the fire alarm goes off.
-Will told me this weekend that there was no mention of the cue in there which is strange since this has been the procedure for some time (since the dawn of NPP in fact). But it does indeed appear that info was never put in there. I've updated it. The special note about 3/7 is in there already, although there was a note to reset one of the breakers in 3/7 which you don't need to do. Just unplug/plug back in the circuit board.

Did some clearing off of the "Preshow & Trailers" hard drive. My intention with this was to keep a back up of Generic preshows and certain SE preshows somewhere other than the TMS in case we need them in the future, but if it works to download new preshow/trailers to it every Friday thats fine let's just keep it organized. In general I think it's a good idea to keep the DCPIV and DCPIII drives for feature downloads and in-house DCP making of features, shorts, and slides. Since these are portable they can be brought to a different booth to ingest directly to an IMS if needed. It also will just keep things cleaner and simpler to always put features & in-house DCPs on these drives. I transferred every current transitional onto DCPIV and all current preshows and trailers onto the Preshow & Trailers drive. Made folders to sort content by type on both drives as well, please use them.

Presentation Issues:

Preshow Clips/Playlist: Downloaded/ingested the Action How to Order PSA and added it to all PG-13 & R playlists. This is supposed to replace the Godzilla one for Pg-13 and up this Friday. You can usually find these policies we've used before in the PSAs folder on the Projection & Content shared Google drive.

Made and scheduled the Thelma playlist.

Built/scheduled Dangerous Game, Before Sunset, and Basic Instinct playlists, These all need to have volume cues added after content gets teched.

Trailer Updates:

Special Events/ AV set up: Set the chairs and mics for the Q&A in 3 tonight.

Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers):

Ordering/Receiving (content): 

Outgoing/Shipping (content):

Print/video Inspection: QC'd Thelma, we only received the Atmos mix and it's loud. Sounds good at 4.5.

Asset tracking doc updated/checked?:

Maintenance/cleaning:

Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Finished filling in next week's cue sheets, except we still need:
-Credit offset for Conan the Destroyer, Little Rascals, & Before Sunset
-Playlists/timing for AQP:Day1, Janet Planet, Kinds of Kindness (these are blank for next Thursday)

Marquee updated?:

Posters updated?:

Cleaning lights on for the night?:

Projection cart by entrance?:

Additional Notes:

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