From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Technical Knowledge
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Syncing the cameras
From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Technical Knowledge
Syncing the cameras
Male 1: In a multi-camera shoot to have a fighting chance later on in post production, you need to make sure that you sync up your cameras, and this can be very easy to do, and the way I usually do it is with a slate, like this guy. This particular slate has a clapper at the top, and you'll notice if I lift it up, I actually have timecode there, in this case this is time, daytime code, and when I clap the slate. There I have a sync point. I don't use a traditional slate. I can also a digital slate like this guy. Here this is a product called DSLR slate, and I can put information like scene, take number, who the camera operator was and so on and so forth. And on a traditional slate, I can do that, but I actually have to use something a litlte old-fashioned. A dry erase marker. So, these go missing often, so that's kind of why I like the digital slate as well. And in a situation where you don't have either a slate, a traditional slate, or a digital slate, these two things right here…
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