[Steve Carprineoa]

Hi,

I have to say I disagree with Bret on this one, this is not is useless in fact I have found it very useful indeed.

I used it on a promo shoot on friday, true we did have to use time of day TC – but thats fine and something that I have done in the past on multi-cam shoots & you also avoid all the frame slipping nonsense that goes on with sony digibetas.

I did always made sure that the cameras were running for a little longer than usual before starting the action, but I found that once I has synced the camera to the phone in the morning it stayed in sync all day! (give or take a second)

On saturday I batched all of the clips from the XML which came out of my phone and had no problems at all with a 3 sec pre roll, as a bonus all the clips had lovely labels and to be honest I would normally have spent the good part of the day labeling it all so for that alone it was great.

I also printed out a log sheet just to see what it looked like and is handy if you’re like me and like scribbling on the notes.

I spent the day today logging films for the clips that I want (I don’t get much time of – the glamour of teley!!) -what I did (I was quiet chuffed coming up with this!!) was that I started the DVD and then synced the phone to the timecode in screen, I then watched and any bits that I wanted I started logging and then stopped logging later. It’s a shame you can’t change the in TC if you’re a bit late but according to the website thats coming soon.

It also says on the website that a bluetooth version is in the pipes and comes out with V3 of iphone.

https://actionlog.freeforums.org/current-developments-in-progress-t6.html

newton shot logger is about 10 years old, and I don’t think they even make it anymore – it was also mega pricey at about $500 if I remember right.

So I’ve got to say that it so far has saved me so much time and it’s just gonna get better – fingers crossed.