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Topic: DSS-200 Degraded Array Question
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Jim Cassedy
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1661
From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Dec 2006
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posted 07-25-2019 09:15 AM
quote: Scott Norwood
Can you just play the movie off of a CRU drive if it comes that way?
(Do advance screenings get regular DCPs on CRU drives or special
ones on USB drives?
What I'm mostly involved with are press & industry screenings which
are not open to the general public, and in fact from which the public
is sometimes specifically excluded. (So if a journalist or sound-tech,
or someone brings a guest who is not a card carrying member of the
press or SAG/AFTRA/DGA or IATSE, they don't get in)
But to answer your question, Scott, 95% of the material arrives on
standard CRU drives, although the drives & KDMS are sometimes
not booked or shipped through standard distribution channels but
come from some publicity arm or the studio instead.
Sometimes the drives I get were produced before the ones that
are mass produced for theatrical distribution, so they arrive with
hand-written labels, or labels different than the ones that will go
to the theaters. The drives may also contain a pre-show slide or
even a short intro from the film-maker that the studio or publicity
company wants us to put on screen before the show.
I get most of these drives in plenty of time to ingest before a
screening, but sometimes because they are still 'tweaking' things
in post production or for some other reason the film-maker or
publicity agent will hand-carry it to the event, and I will have to
do a 'live-play' if I don't have time to ingest. I make sure the
client is aware of the risks of doing that, but I've never had any
glitches while doing a live play, usually from a DSS-200.
(Perhaps it's partly because most of these drives I get are
usually brand new & not "recycled" ones?)
Some exceptions to the 'standard ingest & playback' have been:
> One of the larger places work has direct hi-speed fiber connections
to some of the studios down in LA, and I've done one or two screenings
where they were literally still working post on post production the night
before the press event, and so we got the flick by high-speed transfer.
> Also, and again because we were doing a screening where the movie
was still undergoing post production, we did the screenings direct from
the DCDM 'work print'. The DCDM is on a standard CRU drive, and the
server it plays on looks exactly like a DSS-200, except the face plate
is a totally different color. (And of course there are internal technical
differences, since you can't play a DCDM DCP on a standard server)
> For one screening that was booked at the last minute, the film-maker
realized he had brought the wrong version of the DCP with him and did
not want to screen that one. But he did have the correct version on
an HDCAM tape with Dolby E sound with him and I wound up running
the show off of that.
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 07-25-2019 05:47 PM
Replace all four drives, do a clean install of the software with the current version (4.9.1.22, assuming that, if you're using the cat862, the projector accepts TLS link encryption), and if you're using a cat862, a "reinstall all components" reinstallation of the media block firmware, too. Take the opportunity to give the case a good cleanout, replace the CMOS battery, and check the fans for any worn bearings, while you're at it. You will then effectively have a new server.
Of course it's important to make a careful note of any configuration settings (ctrl+alt+F1, then login as config) and Show Manager settings, including automation cues, before you proceed, so you can reconstruct them on the fresh installation. You'll also want to "outgest" any content that you do not have available for reingestion on external drives.
RAID drives are a bit like car tires - I would always suggest replacing the complete set at once if you can, so that wear is even (unlike car tires, though, you don't need to rotate them!). Otherwise, you're worrying about some of the drives having done fewer hours than others, which can be a pain to keep track of.
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