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Topic: Tarantino Gets 50 70mm Projectors For The Hateful Eight
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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
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posted 08-17-2015 02:43 PM
Mark will get no argument out of me regarding using SSDs in a laptop. It's the best possible upgrade for one because primarily of battery life, but they do run faster.
That being said, I'm on my 5th SSD in my laptop, which is only used when I'm installing. It's not a daily machine I use. I've tried various brands all based upon careful googling and reading of articles and have always bought the best one and they simply DO fail unexpectedly. I've also found there is a major difference in SSDs, as I've played with a few of the "lesser recommended" ones and I found them to not even be up to par with a mechanical drive.
Still for a server, I'm not ready for them...yet. A few years down the road hopefully, but not in 2015.
For XD10s or XD20s, all of my XD20s are setup with a raid, so not much concern there. On my XD10s, I did go the route of having a spare drive on-the-shelf pre-configured and ready to go.
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Brad Miller
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posted 08-18-2015 01:17 PM
Bill the most amazing transformation I ever had was with a kid who had just turned 16 years old. This guy was a football jock and right off of the bat one would think even trying to train that type of person to be a projectionist would be a waste of time, but that kid was amazing. This was in one of those platter array booths too, which was much more difficult to run than a traditional multiplex. The kid walked right in there and got it all perfect, all the time and to my knowledge in the several years he worked for me, never laid a mark on a single print.
In a direct contrast at the same location (even on the same training sessions) was a gal who had lots of experience at an AMC. She could never tackle the platter array and had continual issues just trying to thread the projector heads correctly and consistently, as she was stuck in her previous ways (the way she was taught). Normally my rule is someone gets 3 shifts practicing basic threading and if they don't get the basics by that point, they're out, but as this theater opening was very short on applicants, I gave this gal the 7 full days of "threading training" and at the end of it she still couldn't do it right.
To give you an idea of the way I trained, I would assemble virgin prints of 2 trailers. Each trainee had to "own" that print, and they were the only ones to touch it. This "movie" ran about 5 minutes and it was comprised of one trailer to simulate the trailer pack and another trailer to simulate the feature, with a full set of cues so the automation would do a normal and complete "show". I then made them thread it over and over and over for hours on end over multiple days. I would constantly keep an eye on their threading and techniques, and if there was a mark on the print after being ran repeatedly like that it was considered a failure. Dirt on the print was not tolerated either, as I consider that a mark. This taught them the importance of keeping the projector clean, and most importantly the film cleaner.
In this day and age though, I just don't see that level of training ever happening again. I know I certainly don't have the spare time to do it anymore. There are other people out there who are plenty capable as well to train, but like me the ones I know who are worth a flip don't have the spare time to be setting up and conducting training sessions and such. (Unfortunately for every person who is truly good at training, there are easily 100 that are awful at it.) The one thing I can absolutely guarantee though is that there will NEVER exist a scenario where someone can be trained in a day. Even once the guys passed my tests of running a 5 minute movie over and over for several days, that was just operation and proper film handling in terms of threading. That did not get into splicing, building, inspection, troubleshooting and everything else that a projectionist really needed to have in their knowledge base...but if they couldn't reliably re-thread the system without putting a mark on the print, I certainly wasn't going to waste my time proceeding to teach them anything further as they were sent downstairs to do box office or something else.
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