Clapboard on the iPad in the Final Cut Pro X Demo

[Jeremy Garchow]

I haven’t seen the demo, but Movieslate on iPad is slick. Even sends/receives LTC.

[Chris Kenny]

We’ve occasionally done iPad slating. It works very well in some lighting conditions, poorly in others. In very dark shots with a fast lens that’s wide open, for instance, you can sometimes entirely blow out the screen, to the point where you can’t make out text. And outside there can be reflection problems.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Chris Kenny] ” In very dark shots with a fast lens that’s wide open, for instance, you can sometimes entirely blow out the screen, to the point where you can’t make out text. And outside there can be reflection problems.”

That’s true of any slate, digital or analog.

[Chris Kenny]

[Jeremy Garchow] “That’s true of any slate, digital or analog.”

Sure, but it’s worse with a slate that’s a backlit glossy screen.

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[Joseph Owens]

[Chris Kenny] “Sure, but it’s worse with a slate that’s a backlit glossy screen.”

Have to admit it caught my eye, too, and wondered about its on-set performance. True, all slates have issues and I’ve had to swing around correction settings in order to read anything during over – or under-exposed takes.

Speaking of swinging things around though, I expect you have to turn the “orientation” off, so that a tail-slate is actually upside down… I’ll have to look into this. I always had trouble reading the upside-down time code quickly, or more quickly than it took to flip the scans on the URSA, which was discouraged because of CRT burn in.

Too bad there’s nothing to physically “clap”.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?