The Editblog

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.