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To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ran house checks in all auditoriums Tested the Candyman  show playlist in theater 1 and added a house lights down cue at the start of the trailers (thought about changing the volume since most of the dialogue sounds hushed at 5.0 but too much of the screaming and sound effects throughout the film peak too loudly at anything higher than that) Tested the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie  show playlist in theater 2 for tomorrow evening and added a house lights down cue at the start of the trailers and a house lights up cue at the top of the crawl (the feature volume is also set at 5.0 which is fine for this) Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Updated keys for Novocaine were delivered and uploaded to the LMS Damsels in Distress intro slide was delivered and converted to DCP + ingested to the LMS and theater 1 Outg...

To do this evening/ was completed: No issues this evening - only one manual start needed in T6.  Checked in on T7 throughout the evening and still no issues present.  T2 lamp will need to be changed soon. Nearing the end of its life with a little under a week left.  Air cans have been ordered. Waiting approval.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Deleted old playlists.  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: Put a note up by Projector 2 as a reminder to turn off the power sources after the show.  Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes. Cross referenced times for tomorrow with the LMS. All set for tomorrow.  Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: Additional Notes:

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Lowered the feature volume for all Snow White show playlists from 5.8 to 5.5 to compensate for some smaller crowds and how loud the mix sounds generally Double checked Candyman and Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie playlists for their upcoming shows tomorrow and the next day and everything is in order Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Westward the Women screening went smoothly + cleaned the projectors and finished re-inspecting the print after the show Hanna concluded its brunch run in theater 2 this afternoon without any issues Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Candyman  KDMs were delivered and uploaded to the LMS Outgoing/Shipping (content): Removed Hanna feature content from theater 2 following its brunch show Scheduled a pickup/printed return labels for Westward the Women  (tracking ID: 880174253919) and brought the canisters downstairs P...

To do this evening/ was completed: Still no issues in T7, but kept my eye on the touch panel and popped into the screening room throughout the night.  Lil reminder that the KDM for Candyman should come in tomorrow. If it doesn't come in by the evening, please reach out to Deluxe.   The KDM for Discreet Charm opens up tomorrow, so if there's time to get eyes on it, go for it!   Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Double checked the new playlists for 4/04.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Private added to the calendar for 4/10 Party Girl.  Checked the BluRay inventory and it's not in there so I reckon we'll get a BluRay of it in the next week. I'm assuming it's the 1995 version. I'll check in with Chenelle.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content):  Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Swept and mopped 4/6.  Got ba...

To do this evening/ was completed: Ordered more air cans Presentation Issues: No issues with 7 today. Thanks to Will for taking the precaution and rebooting the projector after the last round last night. Preshow Clips/Playlist: I decided to bring Hanna up to 5.0. Not a huge crowd but it was sounding a little hushed. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Westward the Women  went real nicely. Print is rewound, projectors cleaned. 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: Presentation Issues: The bulb in theater 7 shut off twice during the trailers for the last round due to a ballast communication failure. I turned the lamp back on via the touch panel each time and everything remained functional for the duration of the show after my final attempt at striking the bulb. I also checked on the crawl space and nothing looked out of the ordinary up there (rear projector lights were glowing green, as were all the status icons on the touch panel) but to be safe I unplugged and rebooted the projector once the lamp cooled down following the show [update: another ballast communication failure alarm showed up again as the lamp was cooling...did not have any effect on the reboot...all lights are green but please check on the system status tomorrow morning to see if any failures occurred overnight] Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Recei...

To do this evening/ was completed: Alec sent out an email with a virtual tour/info on how we're now organizing under the curtain in T1 so please give it a watch when you can! Thanks!  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Tech'd Hanna and it's a pretty dark loud mix - that Chemical Brothers soundtrack is bumping. Brought volume to 4.5. Playlist has been built and is set for the weekend. - Lillian  Built all A1 playlists for the week of 4/4, including a few SE playlists: 12 Monkeys and Return of the Living Dead. Shorts festival playlists updated. - Lillian  Trailer Updates: Built new trailer packs for PG and R rated films. Ingested the Lilo & Stitch trailer 3rd version.  Downloaded and ingested the Barbershop trailer and Dance Girl Dance trailer - Lillian  Special Events/ AV set up: Still need the slides for Damsels in Distress and Kings of Comedy , then we can make the playlists. - Lillian Touched base with the reps for Superhuman Body as our 4...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Plex went offline this evening and needed to be rebooted to get playback at Trees working normally again Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Smooth sailing this evening for the Kevin Geeks Out show in theater 1 (stored all gear beneath the curtain after everyone cleared out and brought the mics up to the booth to charge) Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): The film canisters left on the projection cart were picked up this evening Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift):  Y es Marquee updated?: Took down The Monkey  and Conquest  and added letters for Death of a Unicorn ,   Eephus , and Superbad on the brunch side Posters updated?: Added a "now showing" snipe above  Death of a Unicorn and replaced The Monkey  with a p...

To do this evening/ was completed:  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Downloaded the updated A forecast for 3/28 and updated all playlists. Removed the Happy Hour PSA from all playlists per Kat's request. Filled the timing out with the 1min welcome slide. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Snow White school screening went well this morning. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Downloaded the Hyenas DCP. Ingested via the share folder (smb). Received and ingested The Friend . Outgoing/Shipping (content): It didn't look like a pickup had been scheduled for Conquest , so I scheduled one for tomorrow. Print/video Inspection: Teched Westward the Women with Cristina. Looks and sounds great. Can't wait to run (and watch) this one. Cristina, Kevin, Emily, and I went through the slideshow and clips for Kevin Geeks Out tonight. Everything is looking and sounding pretty good. Make sure you set the masking to 1.78 and choose t...

To do this evening/ was completed: The fire alarm went off this morning. Juan and some folks were working on a few things which I believe set it off, or something in the kitchen, but either way, all theatres have been reset! Every corner of this establishment has had quite the bacon-y smell today. - L Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Staff screenings for DOAU and Eephus have been emailed out, scheduled on the LMS and blocked on the calendar. - Lillian Built the playlists for Eephus, Discreet Charm, Minecraft  (Hanna playlist can get built once it's done ingesting to the LMS. Thanks! - Lillian  Trailer Updates: Ingested the trailer for How to Train Your Dragon, The Shrouds  - Lil Special Events/ AV set up: Made the 1.90 lens file in T1 -A The private event for Superhuman Body on 4/4 (next week) has been. moved to 4/28, but the 4/03 screening stays! So, we'll need new keys for later in the month, but we'll have the current set all day on 4/3. Chenelle is aware....

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Very minor delay to the start of the second round in theater 5 this evening ( Novocaine @ 7:25PM) due to an overlap in show playlists -- started the round manually and skipped ahead Plex connection was temporarily lost this evening and had to be rebooted via the desktop in 4/6 to get playback up and running again down in Trees Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Conquest  screening went smoothly save for a brief moment during the (very short) third reel when a pair of false cues I did not see during inspection duped me into thinking the changeover was happening about a minute earlier than normal -- I switched back quickly and got the following one going again when the actual cues popped up Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): A poster for the 4K restoration of  Killer of Sheep  was delivered and stored behind 3/7 Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/...

To do this evening/ was completed: Re-confirmed all of Tuesday's OCAP screenings are good to go. Scheduled the upcoming week in LMS with a few exceptions. Started the ingest for Minecraft Movie and Eephus. Those playlists yet to be built. REC played well last night. NSF Playlist tech went well. We caught some kinks and those have mostly been corrected. Kat sent a recap email highlighting what we caught but I'll reiterate here: The NSF24_THANKYOU slide needs to appear before the program holding slide and after the MAKETHEROAD slide that comes at the end of the program. I've updated the playlists to include this. We found that the durations of THANKYOU slide and the MAKETHEROAD slide need to be changed. Thank You at 10 seconds and Road at 30, so I've made new DCPs of each. The Thank You slide I made by downloading the previous version's mxf file and trimming the content by 20 seconds in DCPoMatic. The MAKETHEROAD slide we made by screenshotting the slide in VLC and ma...

To do this evening/ was completed: Babies OCAP screening confirmed for tomorrow's matinee in T2. I already had this scheduled on the LMS and cue sheets, but just to be clear, it's still happening. No changes.  Presentation Issues: Adjusted brightness in T1.  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built all the playlists for NSF25, going off of the info I have for Opening Nite . Each program has its special slide but some of the others are in there, too. We still have time and y'all will be going over it tomorrow morning, so double check with everyone then. We will, however, need the 190 preset done in T1 for two of the programs. I think we just have that in 3 & 4.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Went over REC and adjusted the playlist. Everything looks good for tonight.  Checked and tech'd the preshow for KGO this week just to make sure everything looks good. The sound mix, as per usual, is a little funky, but 4.0 should be just fine.  Sent the NSF preshow and...

To do this evening/ was completed: Westward the Women on house reels. New brunch letters up. Cue sheets checked. Noticed that the OCAP screening of Black Bag scheduled for tomorrow is not the same one listed on the Nitehawk website, though it is what was highlighted in the film schedule sent out last week. Reached out to Matthew and co. for clarification.  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: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Tech'd the updated REC  feature file for tomorrow night and turned the volume up (it looks and sounds great otherwise but was a bit too hushed at 5.5) Looked at Paper Moon  for my own amusement and to see if that guest from yesterday's argument was founded in literally anything at all -- it was not, the DCP is fine, as is the pre-show content -- and also got eyes on Zola  before the first round in 3 Double checked the pre-show for Conquest  on 3/25 and all necessary elements are present Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Transferred the updated  REC file to theater 1 from the LMS and added it to the show playlist Outgoing/Shipping (content): Removed Paper Moon and Zola content from theaters 1 and 3 following their shows this afternoon Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Mainte...

To do this evening/ was completed: Relatively quiet night on my end.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Double checked the playlists that are currently in use and 3/28.  Still waiting on 5 min Class preshow  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Put the collection of ADA seats back in place after the third round screening of Snow White in T2 Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers):  Ordering/Receiving (content): New DCP of REC finished transcoding and is ingesting to the LMS.  Hanna DCP drive will (or should) arrive this Wednesday.  Outgoing/Shipping (content): Went through out current content inventory.  Print/video Inspection:  Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Trash and recycling out in 4/6. New bags in.  Cleaned the floors in 1 and 2.  Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes Marquee updated?: Yes Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: ...

To do this evening/ was completed: 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: Sent an email to the projection groups about the Conquest soundtrack, I think it's mono but we should confirm during the tech. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Double (triple?) checked the cue sheet and schedule for tomorrow, ready to roll. Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: Additional Notes: No actual issue happened, but when I went in T1 to check Paper Moon after the feature started a guy came up to me and swore up and down we were playing this in the "wrong framerate." Not just the feature, actually, he claimed the entire playlist was in the wrong framerate. He was incorrect, this isn...

To do this evening/ was completed:  Presentation Issues: Final round in theater 2 was paused for roughly ten minutes before MODs radioed up about the delay (was preoccupied inspecting a print but got things running normally again) Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Began converting the third version of  REC to DCP in booth 1 which should finish sometime tomorrow evening (saved to the NWR drive) Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Inspected all of Conquest and uploaded stills to the shared drive (the print was labeled "Dolby A" despite all the waveforms looking unmistakably like a "Mono" optical soundtrack -- a second set of eyes on this would help confirm but I am certain it is the latter format) Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Double checked all cues for tomorrow and Sunday ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Solo day with Alec at Williamsburg and Jack out sick. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Went through Zola and Paper Moon . Playlists are ready for the weekend. Cue sheets are updated. Paper Moon is, in fact, 1.78. Added on a two minutes of black since there's only a minute of credits.  Candyman playlist built.  Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise still needs the PS_SE_Class which has yet to be added to the drive.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: New REC file still going in Handbrake. Please keep checking on this. Thanks!  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Downloaded and ingested the bumper for NSF25.  Outgoing/Shipping (content): Full Metal Jacket got shipped out this morning.  Deleted first run preshow content we no longer need.  No one showed up to the Gremlins 2 staff screening. Re-inspected the print and got it onto shipping reels. Printed out and ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Double checked show playlists for Paper Moon and Zola for this weekend and adjusted the feature volume for  Paper Moon  and pre-show clip volume (Happy Hour_V1) for Zola ... Paper Moon will need to be looked at for credits timing/have a house lights up cue added Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Double checked the show playlist for They Cloned Tyrone and got eyes on it prior to the final round with Desmond...screening went smoothly as did the discussion Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Received additional posters for Elio , The Amateur , and one sheets for Freakier Friday and Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith for its 20th anniversary re-release Ordering/Receiving (content): Deluxe emailed about open captions feature content for  Hanna  to which I replied and confirmed we only needed the CCAP version Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Finished re-i...

To do this evening/ was completed: Adding in this request here, though it has been mentioned before and in the weekly updates; please remember to double check the playlist for the event you're running before the event starts. You are the last line of defense before the screening. Thank you! We will do our best to make sure everything 100 percent gets checked during admin, but all evening shifts with SE shows require this procedure. Everyone is responsible 💮 L Couple of important changes to the playlists as we move into the Spring season - you will, of course, see this in the email for the 3/28 playlists, but we're swapping out the current welcome/feature and howtoorder/policy clips with the spring ones we've used before. You'll see them in the new playlists I've made, bu you should also immediately recognize them from past use!  ALSO: This might be overkill, but the HappyHour_Steve_V1 sounds a lot (and I mean a lot) better at 4.0 than 3.5. It's just a lot lowe...

To do this evening/ was completed: Full Metal Jacket itself went smoothly. There was a show end pack built into the preshow playlist, at the end, which I noticed in advance and tried to preempt, but the house lights cleaning cue overrode my repeated pressing of the house lights down cue, so the cleaning lights came up for just a second after the preshow concluded, before the feature was put on screen. Updated the REC playlist with the new feature DCP. Saved and synced, feature transferring to 1 so check it out in the next day or two. Looked at We Cloned Tyrone between rounds in T2. Volume and lights up cues are good to go but I did notice that the 2:1 lens file does not fully fit the top of the screen, bit of accidental letterboxing, so that will need to be augmented tomorrow. Also the only way for the masking to change to 2:1 is for that masking/lens pack to fire. The quick controls don't work currently. Charm of the Bourgeoisie ingested to LMS. Downloaded and ingested the Q&A...

To do this evening/ was completed: Weekly Update is available and staff screenings have been emailed out, scheduled on the LMS and blocked on the calendar.  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built the staff screenings playlists and scheduled them on the TMS.  The keys for Alto Knights open up tomorrow, so I'll get my eyes on it then.  QC'd Snow White , which sounds good at 5.0, perhaps we can raise it to 5.5 in the larger auditoriums, depending on how many patrons show, but for now I think it's perfectly well at 5.0.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ran loops for Full Metal Jacket tonight. Should be a great show!  REC finished transcoding in T1. Ingested this to the LMS and IMS so we can double check it tomorrow morning. Deleted the old version.  Ingested the CCAP/OCAP of Death of a Unicorn to the LMS.  The keys for They Cloned Tyrone open this evening, after 5:30pm. Please take a peek at it between the first and second round i...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Set up for trivia at Trees and broke down everything once the screening in theater 1 concluded Uptown Girls screening in theater 1 went smoothly and the print was left tails out for re-inspection (the projectors were cleaned following the show as well -- lots of pink dust was shed from the print during it) Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Uploaded a handful of keys for held over titles and upcoming first runs Began converting REC  to DCP in booth 1 after it finished running through HandBrake (this file is being saved to the Headquarters hard drive in the folder "RECFINAL") Zola  feature content was made available via Deluxe this evening but has not yet appeared in the FilmVault menu on Screenwriter  Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning:...

To do this evening/ was completed: Gremlins 2 went very smoothly last night. LMS scheduled for the upcoming week.  Loops ran for tonight. Projectors cleaned. Gremlins remaining on house reels for now, potential staff screening. Letters up for Superhuman Body screening on brunch side. Those should come down tonight. New external hard drive is coming tonight, please format it to Microsoft NTFS when it arrives and name it! Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: The Superhuman Body event went smoothly. Even though the marquee hadn't been done on the side so Jack and I quickly got that up. They held house for a hot minute, but then it was a smooth transition into the feature and then the Q+A.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): So Jack showed me the subs on [REC] and it was essentially an OCAP situation with subs for the audio effects. What I think happened with the subtitles was that when you...

To do this evening/ was completed:  Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: KGO playlist built, Watership Down playlist built/tech'd and REC playlist updated with credits/volume info. Subs look great. - L Adjusted and scheduled the Full Metal Jacket pre-show playlist in theater 1 -WB Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: REMINDER for tomorrow:   Superhuman Body screening (tomorrow, in T1, @10am again!) built the playlist and scheduled it on the TMS, so it's all good to go.  Checked to see if the babies playlist for OCAP Mickey 17 had been scheduled and it had not, so made that one and scheduled it. Please remember the babies screenings!  Also, playlist for the school screening on the 27th is built and scheduled. Snow White .- L Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Received and stored posters for Bring Her Home -WB Ordering/Receiving (content): Reached out to Deluxe for the keys to Tyrone, which will be coming in later tonight.  The DCP o...

To do this evening/ was completed:  Black Bag patron reported the volume being a bit low. I bumped the playlists to 5.5. Opus also sounded low at 5.0, so those playlists updated as well. Watership ingested to LMS. New brunch letters up. I think it was mentioned last week that Paper Moon was taking a bit to show up in the Deluxe portal. We're actually receiving the content via CRU drive, so should be here in a few days. 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): JC Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Projection cart by entrance?: Additional Notes:

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Brought the feature volume down for  Swept Away since the auditorium had so few people inside Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: The Iron Giant  and Swept Away screenings concluded this afternoon and the feature content was removed from each server following the shows Set up a mic/stand at Trees for the hosts of the St. Patrick's Day brunch and broke everything down once the event concluded (an extension cord was borrowed and brought back up to 4/6) Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content):  Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection:  Watership Down  is still transcoding in booth 1 and should finish tonight 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: Updat...

To do this evening/ was completed: All Quiet on the Western Front projection wise... Made the rounds a few times to make sure all new A1's are sounding good in just about every theatre.  Note: Alec started on the DCP of Watership Down , which is transcoding to the Fugazi drive in 1. If it finishes tomorrow, please pop the drive into the 4/6 comp and copy the file over to the smb (share folder).  Presentation Issues:  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Double checked the new A1 playlists/content.  Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Uptown Girls print pics have been uploaded to the drive!  Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Swept and mopped the floors for a while, shuffling a few things around. Cleaned the surfaces/computer and kelmar areas.  Checked in on the APCs in T3/7 (beeping) and T1.  Cue sheets up...

To do this evening/ was completed: Ordered us a new external hard drive since DCPIII has officially kicked the bucket. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Transferred the complete They Cloned Tyrone playlist from T2 to the LMS, along with the feature. Reminder to please ingest all content to the LMS (unless time simply doesn't permit) and build playlists on there , just simplifies things. Scheduled Snow White and Alto Knights for Thursday. Swapped most playlists on Thurs 3/20 for the 0321 versions, since just about every 0314 version has the Alto Knights or Snow White trailer. Built REC and Conquest playlists. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Ripped the Watership Down blu-ray and started converting it to DCP. This is going onto the Fugazi hard drive (not ours, though we've had it for over a year now). Since we are currently without a portable external which is NTFS formatted, ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Temporarily lost connection to theater 3 at the start of the final round and was forced to reboot the projector to get the connection back online...the delay took up some 25 minutes of pre-show so I skipped ahead and stayed in the back of the room until the trailers finished and the feature started  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built and scheduled a special event show playlist for They Cloned Tyrone and saved it to theater 2 (keys for this are still needed to unlock the feature content) Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Cristina sent a slide for Conquest  this afternoon and this was converted to DCP and ingested to the LMS and theater 1 Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Full Metal Jacket was placed on house reels Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Double check...

To do this evening/ was completed: Ran through all of the NSF NoBudge shorts with programming. Tech specs logged in the spreadsheet. Ran reels of Gremlins, FMJ and Uptown Girls. Volumes logged. Reels 2 - 6 of FMJ can be put on house reels. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: A1 3/21 playlists built. We still need some content for the SEs. -A Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Copying the Rec DCP to the share folder. -A Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Continued organizing cables etc. in 1, 2, and 3. Still some work to be done in 1 & 2. Will note for now that the cables for the PA speakers in T1 are now on hooks which are attached to the screen frame. -A 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: Presentation Issues:  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Double checked the Monty Python   & The Holy Grail special event show playlist before the final round in theater 7 + corresponded with Raekwon prior to the guests' arrival and got the show underway as soon as the previous round let out... (but wait there's more...see below) ✨ Another night, another seemingly botched event handled by yours truly. We held off having the guests enter the theater at the start of the pre-show since the room was still being cleaned from the last round and Raekwon was rushing to cut menus from an item change, so by the time they arrived and got settled nearly ten minutes of the pre-show had passed. I set up the mic on the mic stand and raised the master volume on the mixer before they entered and everything seemed fine up until the moment we got to the birthday slide, which appeared on screen a few minutes too early, but I ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Vlad is coming tomorrow morning to fix the table lights.  *Received the file for Wire and Cloth (the problem short from NoBudge). DCP'd and ingested this today. It looks/sounds good. We'll have our NoBudge tech tomorrow morning, a Gremlins 2 tech beforehand and Uptown Girls/Full Metal Jacket after.  *Tech'd Novocaine , Black Bag and Opus - PLEASE READ: FYI - I was confused whilst teching this today as I thought it might be 2:1 in Scope since it's letterboxed, but I can confirm it is 1.85 lens/masking and intentionally letterboxed until the last five minutes of the feature when it open to the full height of the frame. Can't get any more A24 or any more annoying than that. We confirmed this with an ingest letter from the distro. I have also alerted house managers in case patrons are curious.  *T3 server went offline this morning, but power-cycing did the trick. We alerted DMS once again. You should be fine this evening. - Lillian ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Pariah intro and screening went smoothly. Re-inspected the print afterward. The sixth shipping reel is kind of broken so I left that reel on a house reel for now. Alec dropped off some blu-rays. I put [REC] through HandBrake at the end of the night. We can check to see if the subtitles look right tomorrow and then DCP it from there. Looked at Monty Python after the last round in T7. Looks and sounds good at 5.0. I forgot to get credit offset so that can be established tomorrow. Maybe give it another look too just to be sure. 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 ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Staff screenings have been emailed out, scheduled on the TMS and blocked on the calendar. Had our cinema meeting this morning and we've got everything we need for this upcoming week, sans the slide for They Cloned Tyrone , but other than that, content is all set.  Got my eyes and ears on the shorts Wait to Tell My Mother , that we were having difficulties with. It looks good. We'll take a further look with everyone on Friday when we tech NoBudge. As for the other short, Wire and Cloth , I reached out to the filmmaker and we'll be receiving a prores from them tonight, which can DCP for Friday.  There's a closed captioning device currently in use in T1. Seat 1718.  Got in a little earlier than usual for the private event this morning, Superhuman Body screening and Q&A, which went very well. FYI - I've made a note about this in the Weekly Update, but please keep this DCP on the server as we'll be showing it again this upcomin...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues:  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Tech'd the show playlist for Terminator 2 between rounds this evening and added dowser close and open cues 29 and 40 seconds into the feature to hide a title card that says "this 3D version was produced by..." to avoid any confusion about the version being show (it is, in fact, 2D and the restored picture looks fantastic) Double checked the Pariah pre-show playlist on the LMS and everything looks to be in order for tomorrow evening Moved the canisters containing Westward the Women to booth 4 as this screening has been moved upstairs from theater 1 Built pre-show playlists for Gremlins 2  and  Uptown Girls and saved each to the LMS (these will need volume cues added once the prints can be tech'd for sound) Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Finished ingesting/transferring feature content for They Cloned Ty...

To do this evening/ was completed: Tech'd NSF Closing Nite shorts with programming. Aspect/volume noted in the tech spreadsheet. Downloaded and ingested new DCPs of the two problem shorts Lillian mentioned yesterday:  Wire and Cloth and Wait to Tell Mother. The DCP for Wire and Cloth was already on the SMB drive, so I'm assuming it's the same set of files? There was also an orange icon next to Wire and Cloth on the content page which I believe symbolizes "incomplete" but can look at them tomorrow. Monty Python DCP is still transcoding in T1. Should finish after the end of tonight. So ingest tomorrow and throw on screen. Removed a bunch of feature content from T7 to make room for new features. Downloaded and ingested NSF_THANKYOU_V3 slide. Other two versions removed from LMS. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Keys for The Iron Giant , An...

To do this evening/ was completed: Scheduled the upcoming week in LMS with a few SE exceptions. Those playlists will be built soon. Started transcoding the Monty Python rip in T1. Inspected Westward the Women. It's in good condition. Back on shipping reels for now. Presentation Issues: Captiview in T1 couldn't connect during round two. A guest had requested a unit but ultimately it failed to show captions. I disconnected and reconnected the CCAP port two ethernet cable in the booth and beneath the screen after the show and the unit started working again. Investigating this was a bit too much stumbling around in the dark during the show, so the patron went without captions. I believe they were given passes. 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/ch...

To do this evening/ was completed: For tonight - I ripped the BluRay of Monty Python and put it through Handbrake. It's still finishing up in Handbrake, so please keep an eye on it and DCP once it's done. FYI, it's 1.66. - L I went to check our shorts inventory for Closing Nite and NoBudge since we're teching Closing Nite tomorrow morning and these all should have finished ingesting over the weekend. Three shorts needed to be re-downloaded and ingested -  Strangers and  Wait to Tell Mother from Closing Nite, then  Wire and Cloth from NoBudge. Update: I did a double take and noticed each file in the Strangers DCP was a copy (had the word in each file), so I cleared each of them and it ingested. I've alerted the cinema team about the others. Really thought I could get Wait to Tell Mother to work...The good news is that we still have two thirds of the month, so we're still ahead. - L Presentation Issues: None to report. House checks were completed in all audito...

To do this evening/ was completed: Downloaded and ingested the holding slide for the Superhuman Body private event. Outgoing letters down, upcoming letters up. Monty Python blu-ray dropped up, resting in 4/6. Gremlins 2 on house reels. 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: Daylight savings had no effect on the schedule! Everything was still scheduled for the correct time when I got in. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Sundays on Fire went nicely. The print ran well.  Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Printed label for Into the Fire . It's packed up and on the cart with Gladiator . Pickup for both is scheduled for tomorrow. Print/video Inspection:  Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): There were a few mistakes for today, the latter three rounds in T1 had wrong showtimes. They were copied over from yesterday but the first round in here today (SoF) ended much earlier than yesterday's ( Gladiator ) so the following showtimes were earlier. Also I'm Still here in T6 was supposed to be 9:30, we had it as 9:15. All this has bee...

To do this evening/ was completed: Inspected the print of Uptown Girls tonight, which, to my surprise, comes with topped with a trailer for the space dog movie, Good Boy . Reel 5 also suffers from a few long patches of severe edge damage on the soundtrack side. I've seen some pretty gnarly prints make it through a projector, but I'll be running this on Monday to check that it can safely pass through and to check how damaged the sound track will be during those problem areas.  Presentation Issues: The table lights in T4 went out. I waited until the third round was over and fiddled with the breakers, switch and dimmer to see if that would help and nothing happened, so we're assuming a faulty transformer (same thing happened in T1 last year). Juan told me that Vlad is going to try to get here Monday morning, after a trip to the Williamsburg location, but we're not entirely sure if he'll make it. Anyhow, we'll keep you all updated.  Preshow Clips/Playlist: Double ...

To do this evening/ was completed: Daylight savings tonight... not sure how Screenwriter is going to account for this, if at all. I'm leaving the schedule as is for today and will adjust tomorrow if needed. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Noticed something really odd about Cinema Paradiso which we can't really do anything about but is worth mentioning. I noticed there's about an hour gap before the next preshow after this show, then saw the feature we received is just over two hours. I've always known this movie to be about 3 hours, though according to IMDb the South Korean theatrical release (as well as an Italian recut) was 2 hours and change so I guess that's the version we received a DCP of--why on God's green earth that would be the case I do not know. While I don't doubt these cuts make the movie easier to sit through, I don't think it was what we were expecting, website lists the runtime as...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built show playlists for Black Bag  and Novocaine  (still waiting on pre-show content for Opus ) and a special event playlist for The Iron Giant Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Received additional one sheets for Death of a Unicorn  and new posters for Magazine Dreams and Hurry Up Tomorrow Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Tech'd  Cinema Paradiso  after the final round in theater 3 and took note of the picture and sound quality (both good, save for a very brief moment at 1:58:14 when the top of the frame is cropped for seemingly no reason -- this happens as the main character sits down in a theater -- before opening back up to the full height) and the masking cue is operational and hides the pillar boxing nicely Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Tossed som...

To do this evening/ was completed: Almost all preshow content downloaded and ingested with the exception of the Cults_5min preshow element, which should be uploaded to Drive tonight. Most of the 3/14 A1 playlists have been built. Check trailer list for ones that still need manufacture. Inspected the last three reels of Gladiator. They're in excellent condition. New 35mm letters up on the marquee. Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Tech'd the entirety of the Opening Nite program with Desmond, John, Cristina and Kat. All shorts look and sound great. The tech spreadsheet has been updated. - L Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: SuperhumanBody keys ingested - L Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Ingested Novocaine, Iron Giant.  Ingested another program for NSF25 (NoBudge) via the share drive just to keep us on schedule, first three shorts of Closing Nite are also ingesting. More preshow bits ingested - L Outgoing/Shipping (c...

To do this evening/ was completed: Presentation Issues: Syracuse MFA and alumni shorts program screening got off to a really rocky start this evening due to the HDMI connection failing to play audio and later video as the show was scheduled to begin. Lillian had tested everything earlier in the day with Kara, the university rep, and between rounds I checked the functionality of the microphone, which worked just fine, only to find that each of these would malfunction when needed. The mic line went dead, despite the tech, and the HDMI connection was giving us picture but no sound at the start of the program. I rewound the film, tried playing it again, but still had no sound. I did this twice more and by the third time the picture had also dropped out. I contacted Lillian and Alec and did some troubleshooting on the desktop for its sound settings which were, apparently, all wrong and not what she had set in the afternoon, leading us to believe the HDMI had completely severed its connectio...