• Cinematography

  alternative to Scriptlinc

  Posted by Bob Cole on March 30, 2007 at 11:07 pm

  I’ve found a couple of interesting devices which display the camera’s timecode on an LCD screen so that an assistant can record the tc for good takes.

  So I wonder:

  Is there a (cheap) hard-wired alternative to the wireless, and expensive, Scriptlinc/ScriptBoy/ScriptView?

  Would it be so hard to make one? I don’t need a wireless device; it would suit me fine to glue an LCD onto my own clipboard, and run a wire from camera BNC timecode out to the CheapLink.

  — Bob C

  Bob Cole replied 19 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steve Wargo

  March 31, 2007 at 8:12 pm

  Horita has several products that do exactly what you want. To make anything wireless, all you have to do is use a small wireless mic system. The time code is an audio signal. You can plug into the tc output of a camera or deck and run the line to the mic input on a transmitter. At the receiver end, go from the receiver output to the Horita input and you’ll have wireless timecode. I think it’s horita.com

  Steve Wargo
  Tempe, Arizona

  It’s a dry heat!
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  Bob Cole

  April 1, 2007 at 3:25 pm

  [Steve Wargo] “Horita has several products that do exactly what you want.”

  Thanks Steve. Horita makes a “PTR” along with a clipboard version called the “Script Kit,” but even more interesting is their “Pocket PA LTC – Bluetooth Transmitter with PDA-LOG

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