From the course: Shooting with Blackmagic Cinema Cameras

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Using the built-in slate

Using the built-in slate

From the course: Shooting with Blackmagic Cinema Cameras

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Using the built-in slate

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- Earlier when talking about the remote app, we discussed the ability to automatically add some key information using your smartphone. but the slate information is actually built into the camera, and there's even more choices. To access it is a little tricky. What you want to do is bring up your display and then just swipe. And this will bring this up, and you can see the option for Clips and Projects. Let's go into the Project settings here, and this is where we can add information. So I can give this a name and click Update. I can add information about the director. And we can assign a single letter for the particular camera. I can also assign a name for the operator. And now all that information is logged for the project. If we go to the individual clip, we could see information for the next clip. Now this is pretty cool, it automatically reads in information about the lens. Because the Micro Four Thirds lens had this information in there, I could see the manufacturer. I could see…

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