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Jack Ondracek
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From: Port Orchard, WA, USA
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posted 10-14-2015 02:25 AM
Saw one of those new cases at another theatre tonight. Didn't recognize it then. Interesting.
Overall, our experience with the system has been pretty good. Even with the strangely insecure foam padding, we haven't received a failed drive. The drives generally show up on time and the keys have always worked.
Just the volume of trailers we get every week and the ability to show (and change) what we want without having to pull the center of the film load out and splice things around is almost worth the cost of the upgrade. Well... that's a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the point. It was hard enough for a non-chain theatre to get the trailers they needed, even before the labs started backing off.
The system does take a bit of babysitting, as did film, but not all of that is Deluxe's fault. Most often, it's a booking or holdover problem, which one might chalk up to "failure to communicate". In the few cases where a drive hasn't made it here in time to show, we've been able to borrow them from a competitor we get along with pretty well. Paying attention to what you've got and what you need, and getting on any issues mid-week takes care of nearly all problems without really much effort.
As Bobby Bare sings... 'there ain't no ten'... but I'd say the system is up to somewhere around a 'B'.
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Monte L Fullmer
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posted 10-14-2015 03:52 PM
quote: Mike Blakesley Also they have apparently done away with paperwork included with the drive (at least, there was none with this drive). It's pretty much unneeded anyway, but the credit-offset is not printed on the drive label either. C'mon guys, put it somewhere willya?
Once in a while, I'll get these without paper info in them, and as with you, I have no idea on credit offset.
Thus, I create my own (and since we both have GDC) where I figure that average credit time is over 6 minutes, I'll make the credit offset 4 minutes before the end time that is listed in the edit cue window. Not the best way, but I'll get my lights up in the mean time.
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