Another electronic slate for the iPhone
By S Simmons. Filed in filmmaking, from the net |
Hot on the heels of LlamaSlate comes another film slate-style application for the iPhone called … Slate! Where LlameSlate was more of a rethinking of the traditional camera slate Slate actually tries to look and feel like a real timecode slate. They’ve done well in that you can just tap the Scene and Take numbers to increment and you can also type in custom production and director names. Tape the clapper bar and it will beep or clap. It could be used to actually sync audio and video. What seems to be the best feature are the actual running timecode numbers though they only seem to run on time. It’s too bad there isn’t a way to actually set a custom timecode or take an external timecode in feed via wifi or a hardware adapter. That’s when things like this move from novelty to an actual useful product for production and post. Plus it would be great if the slate would switch to a landscape view with bigger timecode numbers when you tilt the phone on its side. Hopefully it will get better with updates in the future. Here’s the iTunes link to Slate. It’s $1.99.
Now I ask again, where’s that timecode calculator for the iPhone!?!? That would be useful.
Tags: iphone software, slate, timecode
Tuesday, October 7th 2008 at 9:58 am
Now i need an iPhone or iPod Touch. This is awesome!
Would this work on the iPhone? http://chxo.com/scripts/pTCcalc.php
Tuesday, October 7th 2008 at 10:01 am
The features list of MyConvert in the app store says it does timecode…
Tuesday, October 7th 2008 at 10:07 am
I’ll check out MyConvert! Didn’t know about it, thanks!
Tuesday, October 7th 2008 at 10:32 am
What we really need, as you noted, is a logger app that will read TC wireless over Wifi (possibly as MidiTC, midi over Wifi already works) or Bluetooth (there are TC to Bluetooth transmitters, but Bluetooth implementation in iPhone is still locked off from developers). K
Tuesday, October 7th 2008 at 10:34 am
I’d also like a shot sheet. Something to log timecode and notes about each shot.
Monday, October 13th 2008 at 6:51 am
Hey Scott, have you seen/tried this iPhone TC Calculator?
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=289189609&mt=8
The hideous typography and gradients definitely have to go, but this looks promising. I’m not gonna shell out $4.99 to find out if it blows, though
Monday, October 13th 2008 at 8:49 am
I’ve been using time:calc for a little while as well – it does a variety of timecode rates. I think it might be free; i don’t remember.
Sunday, October 19th 2008 at 2:14 am
This would be awesome for Windows Mobile 6.1. Does anybody know if there is one?
Thanks!
Friday, June 26th 2009 at 9:01 am
Hi,
Have you checked out the shot logger for the iphone?
http://www.andris.co.uk/actionLog.html