From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Gadgets & Gear
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Why should I use a slate?
From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Gadgets & Gear
Why should I use a slate?
Rich: Hi, my name is Rich Harrington. Robbie: And I am Robbie Carman. Rich: And today we are talking about slates. Now we've brought slates up before in purposes of sync sound, but there is this whole world, it's a big word, a lot of people get scared by it, metadata. Robbie: Yeah, metadata or data about data is essentially just information about what's going on with your shoot, and the cool thing about having all this metadata or information on a slate, Rich, is that hopefully later on you can use it to your advantage in post-production to easily find shots, the scene, the take number, who is running the camera and so on. Rich: A lot of times we are going to get notes back from the field, I like this particular take or maybe the time of day, we decide to combine two shots together and you are looking at me and you go, those shots just don't match. Well, sometimes you are going to have information about when was it shot or where was it shot, if you have to go back and do it again…
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