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Standards for Slates
In the process of going from amature to pro, my company is finding the importance of slates after having done a small shoot without using one. I need to be able to do the following with the unslated footage we have:
1) Burn dvd’s to send to our partners for screening who are out of state
2) Create markers with slate info that will be carried over as numberous dvd chapters to Studio Pro 3
3) Write standard industry slate information in the descriptions for each markerMy Questions:
1) How many markers/chapters can I create in Studio Pro 3 and how is, say 75-100 markers/chapters, managed within the program?
2) What exactly is standard industry slate information and could an example please be provided?
3) I have never created chapters from markers before, what do I need to do in FCP to make this seamless into Studio Pro?Any help is greatly appreciated,
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As far as “standards for slates”, there aren’t any.
The slate just needs to have meaning to YOU and anyone associated with the project.You can create lots chapters and markers for your DVD and it will take a lot of time to do that, OR…
I’m going to guess that you want others to be able to view some rough footage so that THEY can list what shots they LIKE and/or DISLIKE.
This is generally done with a client copy (tape or DVD) that has a “Burned-in Timecode Window”.
The raw tape’s Timecode numbers are “effected” into a box that can be viewed on a standard TV over the moving video as it plays.
That way, anyone viewing can make notes about anything and mark down the approximate TC where it takes place.You can then go back to the master tape(s) and find the exact clip(s) in question.
To add the TC window BASED on the RAW FOOTAGE TC:
First, make a DUPLICATE of your timeline and do these adjustments only on the dupe.
Open the Effects tab > Video Filters > Video > Timecode Print
(Double-click that filter into the Viewer Window and select the Mode: “Reader”On the dupe Timeline:
Select (highlight) ALL of the video clips on the timeline and drop the Timecode Print (Reader) filter onto any highlighted clip (it will pop to ALL of them at once).Render and output to tape, and/or burn your DVD from this “burned-in TC” version of the timeline.
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Hi,
As mentioned before, there is no standard for slates.
Within DVD SP 99 chapters are supported.
Creating chapters is quite easy – just go to the beginning of a clip hit “M” an “M” again, name the marker and press “Chapter Marker”. When you’re done export the sequence as “Quicktime Movie” and select “Chapter Markers” for the markers option.To make this easier you can also use my XML2Title shareware to create either “slates” or subtitles based and markers on the clips metadata.
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/XML2Title.Regards
AndreasAndreas Kiel
Spherico
Nelkenstr. 25
D-76135 Karlsruhe
Tel.: +49 (0)721 183 9753
eFax: +1 650 897 8094eMail: kiel@spherico.com
https://spherico.com/filmtools — some workflow tools for FCP
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