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Author Topic: Odd Messages in Film Cans Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-04-2009 10:06 PM                     Hmm..we could start something for the next generation of "digital cinema server operators" - leave our epitaphs in those orange, yellow and 'mini fox boxes' that contains the HD's.. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-05-2009 03:06 AM                     quote: Matthew Rick You know, it just makes me sad that D-Cinema doesn't have any of this. Yes it does. Disney just sent out an email explaining to delete enough old movies from your server's hard drive to make extra room to be able to load the Toy Story 1 & 2 double feature. Ummmmmm, DUH!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-05-2009 11:24 AM                        You mean, the D-systems don't do that automatically? (Delete the oldest content) You'd think there would be a way you could "mark" something so it wouldn't get deleted, but other than that the system should just kick out the old material on its own. If that's not happening, why not?  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 10-05-2009 11:38 AM                        quote: this one was in one of the cans for Ice Age 3: Yup, again that is mine. I'm waiting for someone to find one of my nasty notes I've written about the state of the print I recieved. I think I've only wrote a few of them over the years. Robot is always included in those. Maybe someone could lift up the foam in the HD cans and write something. hmmmm  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 10-05-2009 12:33 PM                    Just like deleting old programs, something always gets left behind. I did a disk clean up before installing the toy stories on our Doremi we have been using since march 2007. This is the first time this has been done since no one advised us of needing to do this. I found over 40 gigs of unassociated files that I deleted off.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-05-2009 01:41 PM                     quote: Mike Blakesley If that's not happening, why not? Since the server is still a computer with HD's - not to show any intelligence, just depends on the I/O from the user. Yet, can you think what mess there can be if the server decides to think and accidently deletes a file that is still in use between playdates?  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-05-2009 06:32 PM                        quote: Monte L Fullmer Hmm..we could start something for the next generation of "digital cinema server operators" - leave our epitaphs in those orange, yellow and 'mini fox boxes' that contains the HD's.. I suggest that Film-Techers who run digital should start putting notes in the HD cans saying "This print is scratched! Please take out of service!" and see how long before it gets mentioned in Boxoffice.  |  IP: Logged Wayne Keyser Master Film Handler Posts: 272 From: Arlington, Virginia, USA Registered: May 2004 posted 10-05-2009 08:04 PM                     "Hmm..we could start something for the next generation of "digital cinema server operators" - leave our epitaphs in those orange, yellow and 'mini fox boxes' that contains the HD's..-Monte" You could try a big note, with pictures/symbols: "Please re-attach loose pixels to the head and tail of every HD."  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-05-2009 08:16 PM                     Let's get worse now: "please don't rewind after last showing/injesting - ship print tails out!"  |  IP: Logged Ed Alvarado Film Handler Posts: 60 From: Fort Worth, TX,usa Registered: Oct 2004 posted 06-30-2010 05:45 AM                        Okay, I'll ask. How do you get "MOK" from Ed Alvarado? lol sorry for the long wait! ok well MoK is an old very old name i used in the graffiti community. and then it went from gaming and when i was building movies and tearing down i just started to tag film cans for giggles and i never thought anybody would ever post it online and it just boggles my mind dude. but yeah MoK is not from my actual name.  |  IP: Logged Andy Frodsham Expert Film Handler Posts: 238 From: Stoke on Trent, Staffs, UK Registered: Nov 2006 posted 07-03-2010 01:01 PM                     I'm sure it won't be too long before the Distributors work out some way of attaching 'Read Me' files onto those hard discs! Imagine what gems and nuggets of information one may discover there???!!  |  IP: Logged Don Sneed Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Texas City, TX, USA Registered: Aug 2001 posted 07-07-2010 02:40 PM                        When I was a projectionist in the early 70's I once wrote in 1973 in a film can (I was the first for that can) Don Sneed Sr. "73" Galveston Texas, 10-years later I got the same can again that must had 50 names, their high school names, & the yr they grad....with all the thousands of cans out there, what are the chances of recieving the same can again with your name in i, I thought how cool is that!!!  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Smith Expert Film Handler Posts: 201 From: Youngstown, OH Registered: Jan 2010 posted 07-07-2010 05:35 PM                     Congratulations on starting a trend, Don, of can vandalism! I actually want to get some sort of stamp made with name, union logo, and maybe hand-write what the print was in the can and year.  |  IP: Logged

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