July 2014
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MovieSlate allows users to simultaneously log data and shot notes for up to 26 cameras
By selecting a camera, aspect ratio and a group of lenses, it allows you to compose shots with the same field of view as the lenses you will shoot with. These images can be saved, with focal length, GPS, tilt angle, bearing and shot information, and then used in storyboards. The developer also offers Toland ($39.99/£27.99/€35.99), essentially the Manual of the American Society of Cinematographers in an app (created with the ASC), with exposure, depth of field, field of view, shutter and speed information and shot logging. It also offers the Helios Sun Position Calculator ($29.99/£20.99/€26.99), which shows where the sun will be when you shoot, including a map view. A less expensive alternative is Sun Seeker: 3D Augmented Reality Viewer ($6.99/£4.99/€5.99 — also on Android), with a useful on-screen overlay, so you can see where the sun will be in relation to your scene, as well as map view.
€26.99) Digital Viewfinder for Cinematography is another alternative to Panascout or Artemis, with information on more than 45 professional digital and film cameras, and lenses from Zeiss, Canon, Cooke, Hawk, Panavision and others.
The less expensive Cadrage Director’s Viewfinder ($10.99/ £7.49/€9.99 — also on Android) includes an extensive format database for film and still cameras (including medium and large-format — useful for the new Pentax 645Z, which does HD video). It also has a built-in calibration tool that allows the use of any wide-angle or telephoto adapters on your phone (or just to get an accurate calibration on an Android phone — where there are too many sensor/lens combinations for all models to be included). It supports spherical, anamorphic 1.3x and anamorphic 2x lenses, and users can create their own custom formats.
The developer also offers a free Focus Chart (iOS and Android), with a Siemens Star, that stops the phone from going to stand-by while you adjust back focus or test a lens. Cine Meter ($4.99/£2.99/
€4.49), by Adam Wilt includes: a reflected light meter, using the camera in your iDevice; an RGB waveform monitor; and a false-colour picture — making it a useful tool to have
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There is a Desktop Importer ($49.99) for the Mac that will automatically import and embed the metadata into the clips, for use with Avid, Final Cut Pro or Premiere. It can also find the slate clap and lay down markers. The metadata can be revised after a take, and markers can be added during the shoot itself to go with Script Supervisor notes — particularly useful for reality TV or documentary shoots. MovieSlate ($24.99/£17.49/
In design: Hollywood Camera Work’s Shot Designer makes it easy to create camera plans
with you when you happen upon a possible location and want to check how you’ll shoot it.
On shot
Hollywood Camera Work’s Shot Designer (free or $19.99/£13.99/€17.99) allows you to quickly design and block camera coverage of a scene (as well as set and lighting design), with precise control for plotting (and animating) a classic top-down diagram, with shot lists and storyboards. Also on Android, Mac and PC, it can preview the focal length of
lenses using your device’s camera, and includes pre- loaded camera plots. Rotolight Magic Eye ($6.99/£4.99/€5.99) gives wireless lighting control over the Rotolight Anova LED Floodlight, allowing users to match lighting between location and studio, remotely control brightness, colour temperature and systems settings over multiple lights, including multiple point fades over custom time and brightness ranges. It also has a ‘DMX style’ controller view (faders), and total project recall.
‘iPads
are perfect for location prompters
because they are so light and the batteries will last all day’
Slated for production QRSlate (free) uses QR Barcodes to link metadata on the slate (scene, take, camera rolls, scene description, etc) to the video clip.
€21.99) is an all-in-one digital slate, clapperboard and shot log (which can include voice notes and photos). Timecode can be synced with compatible cameras, sound recorders and LTC generators via the headphone jack (optional in-app purchase), or over Wi-Fi with Timecode Buddy or between multiple MovieSlates. Another option allows users to simultaneously log data and shot notes for up to 26 cameras, while another is especially designed for the audio department. There is also a free Timecode Buddy slate app, which allows Timecode Buddy hardware to stream realtime SMPTE timecode to ten iOS devices at once, via Wi-Fi. 3D Slate ($14.99/£10.49/ €13.99) is optimised for Stereoscopic 3D productions, to keep track of specific 3D
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