• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Broadcast Slate

  Posted by The Bill on December 7, 2006 at 2:27 am

  Is there a standard for the info included on a slate for broadcast?

  thnx in advance
  -b

  Walter Biscardi replied 19 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  David Battistella

  December 7, 2006 at 2:35 am

  Nice to include:

  PROGRAM NAME
  VERSION: Anamorphic/ Letterbox, Color Corrected, etc

  DATE of output

  PROGRAM TIMECODE START TIME
  PROGRAM RUNNING TIME
  TEXTLESS ELEMENTS START TIME

  AUDIO TONE DB REFERENCE LEVEL
  Stereo/Mono/SPLIT TRACK
  DOLBY ON OR OFF

  STUDIO CONTACT INFO

  Peace and Love 🙂
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  The Bill

  December 7, 2006 at 2:42 am

  cool. thnx…
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  Bob Flood

  December 7, 2006 at 3:29 pm

  funny

  i always did them like this, as usually the clients saw the slate during screenings etc.

  client
  ageny
  production company
  title
  code number/episode
  length
  date
  format
  contact info/your name

  of course you would edit the info per your needs. ie if its a show there is no agency etc.

  almost all networks and some ad agencys have “deliverable requirements” which dictate slate info ie segemnt starts etc, (i remember doing spots for one soap maker, who required all this specific data on the slate AS WELL AS spoken info. it had to be a certain duration, at a certain location on the tape etc etc)

  one thing for sure: the money man or woman gets top billing

  hth

  bee eph
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  Walter Biscardi

  December 7, 2006 at 4:22 pm

  [Bob Flood] “almost all networks and some ad agencys have “deliverable requirements” which dictate slate info ie segemnt starts etc, (i remember doing spots for one soap maker, who required all this specific data on the slate AS WELL AS spoken info. it had to be a certain duration, at a certain location on the tape etc etc)”

  My favorite requirement that I have received so far is this, and I am NOT kidding.

  “A 20 second countdown shall precede the start of program and cut to black at 3”

  “Master Tapes shall be configured as such:
  09:58:00:00 – Black
  09:59:00:00 – Bars and tone set to -18dB
  09:59:30:00 – Black
  09:59:50:00 – Slate and Countdown.”

  So I’ve been scratching my head for weeks trying to figure out how to squeeze that 20 second countdown into 10 seconds……..

  Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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