Projection Admin 4/24

To do this evening/ was completed: Had a super fun time in theater 3 today...take a look at Alec's notes. We've both notified Chris/Gregg to get someone in here tomorrow morning to fix the issue. 

Friendly reminder that there is a school screening for the Superhuman Body tomorrow morning, right at 10am (film starts around 10:30). Playlist is scheduled but the letters (in 3/7) will need to go up. This will be our last show with those folks! - Lillian 

Carefully cleared a lot of content from servers 1, 2, 3 and 4 to prep for our incoming shows and to make transfers a little easier as it was a bit of a struggle before. - Lillian

Presentation Issues: We had to move the first round of Sinners from T3 to T1 (and cancel Sacramento) because the lighting and masking cues in T3 completely stopped working. The masking is easy to get around, you just use the motor under the curtain, but the lighting dimmer requires automation cues to activate the different settings, so we were stuck on cleaning lights and couldn't get the lights to come down to the preshow level or turn off. I tried reseating the GPO cable and power cycling both relay boards behind the rack but this did nothing. I took the cover off the dimmer panel to try and activate the settings manually that way, but we quickly realized by looking through the manual there was no way to do this.

I got hold of Chris at DMS and he eventually told me we'd have to activate the cues by hand on the relay board on the back of the rack by shorting the circuit for the dimmer setting we want with a paper clip (yeah, you read that right). I will show you this in person before you're actually responsible for doing it, but here's a visual reference anyway:

Pictured is the relay board for theater 3, you'll see some wires circled on the bottom. These wires are responsible for activating the dimmer settings, with those uncircled wires to their left responsible for masking presets. For whatever reason, the cues are not reaching this board so, when we fire a lighting or masking cue from the IMS, nothing happens even though it says the cue was successfully executed.

You'll notice there are four wires coming down from the board in the circle part of the picture, with three "looped" wires as well. In order to activate a dimmer setting until this gets properly fixed, you'll need to touch the paper clip to the hanging wire corresponding to the dimmer setting you want (more on that in a sec) AND one of those "looped" wires. You can't touch the paper clip to the colored plastic insulation, it has to touch the wire itself. There are little openings where these wires connect to the board, stick the paper clip gently in next to the wire. You won't get shocked, promise. Watch the dimmer panel on the wall to confirm the dimmer setting has been activated: both green LEDs lit up for cleaning lights, only the bottom green LED lit for lights up/preshow, and both green LEDs off for lights down/feature.

The colors are tough to see in that picture, but:

Yellow wire = cleaning lights

Orange wire = lights up/preshow

Blue OR Green wire = lights down/trailers & feature

Don't forget to hit the button on the masking motor when the feature starts if necessary! Scope is button 1, 1.85 is button 2. Shouldn't need anything else for the time being.

I'm working with DMS to get someone in tomorrow to work on this so we're not dealing with it through the weekend.

Just in case you were thinking these kind of wonders might cease... -A

Preshow Clips/Playlist: All A1 playlists have had their preshow/trailers and feature content techd : Shrouds, Ochi, Accountant, Until Dawn - L

Trailer Updates:

Special Events/ AV set up: Ingested and transferred the DCP of Alice Jr to T4 for tomorrow (notified Desmond it was ready so that he could watch it tomorrow if he wants, which he will!). - Lillian

Downloading Home Alone 2 via Cyberduck, should be done this evening. - Lillian 

Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers):

Ordering/Receiving (content): DCP'd and ingested Desmond's slides for May. - Lillian

Outgoing/Shipping (content): I printed the return label for Ninja III which is attached to the box. Please pack this up tonight so it can go out tomorrow. I've scheduled a pickup (FYI--this is intentionally a Ground shipment)

Printed out and attached the pickup info for Babe and Waterworld this morning - Lillian 

Print/video Inspection: 

Asset tracking doc updated/checked?:

Maintenance/cleaning: Located the breaker panel info once the T3 lights issues hit to see if we could control the lights with a quick shut off, but shutting the sconces off triggered the emergency lights. We tried a few others and quickly realized not everything is labeled accurately, or corresponds with the info in our system (unclear as to why this is), so I'll update that soon. - Lillian

Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes

Marquee updated?: Put up The Shrouds and Legend of Ochi on the front side of the marquee. Organized the letters for The Accountant 2 and Until Dawn in the 3/7 booth for tomorrow. Added the second date for Devil is a Woman and put up Rules of the Game on the 35mm side. - Lillian 

Posters updated?: Put up Accountant 2 and Until Dawn with coming soon tags and added now showing tags to Ochi and Shrouds.

Cleaning lights on for the night?:

Projection cart by entrance?:

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