MovieSlate

MovieSlate is a digital slate, clapper board, shot log, and shot notepad— designed for use with film, television, documentaries, interviews, and home movies. MovieSlate provides an easy way to log footage and take notes as you shoot— saving you time later when you capture and edit the footage on your computer.

- Entire app works in landscape or portrait orientations
- Manual Timecode jamming or time-of-day (TOD) display
- Sync Timecode between multiple iPhones/iPod touches
- Shot Log History with multiple text, voice, image notes per shot
- Export Shot Log History in text, CSV, HTML, and Final Cut XML formats
- Manages multiple productions
- Saves location addresses with shots— using GPS (iPhone 3G & 3G S) or WiFi (iPhone 2G & iPod Touch)
- Customizable Slate background, fonts, LED color, and clapper stick designs
- Choose clapper behavior: shake to clap, sound effects, delays, leader & end roll, auto-increment take number
- Save and recall settings by Production
- Can choose Director and D.P. names from iPhone/iPod Contacts

Product Version: 3.0.1

Release Date: 20 Sep 2011

New in this Version:

- Optimized to run faster and use less memory.
- Sound Department plugin - log sound meta data; quickly generate Sound Reports.
- Slate - detect external claps from the Pomfort MamboFrame iPad case.
- Slate - swipe up/down on slate fields to increment/decrement numbers.
- Slate - keypad now displays A,B,C,D buttons when editing CAM (Camera) field.
- Slate - keypad now supports double-letters for 123ABC and 123abc input formats.
- Slate - zoom timecode fullscreen with a new zoom button.
- Slate - timecode display now supports cut/copy/paste.
- Slate - added new User Bits (UBITS) display.
- Slate - added new production logo graphic.
- Slate - added new ADC “CDL” (Look ID) field for use with color correction workflows.
- Slate - edit field labels by tapping them (new for iPhone/iPod touch).
- Slate - text field fonts now get much smaller when needed.
- Slate - added new Refresh Location button (visible when a shot is in progress).
- Dates - as old as 1902 can now be entered.
- Snippets - are now organized in Snippet Groups that can be customized.
- Snippets can now be used in fields on the slate, history, and optics screens.
- Snippets - can now be auto expanded by typing their abbreviation and a space.
- Snippets have moved to the Settings tab/screen (on iPhone).
- Camera Optics - added new plus/minus keypad buttons to increment/decrement Aperture in 1/3 and 1/2 F-stops.
- Camera Optics - added new foot and inch keypad buttons for editing Camera Height.
- History List - added new search and sort options.
- History List - added new Un/Circle All Takes button.
- History - added new “ADC CDL” color grading fields.
- History - added new User Bits field in the DATA1-6 section.
- History Reports - can now be emailed as a single zip file with optional password protection.
- History Reports - added new Sound Dept, MovieSlate XML, Avid ALE, and Adobe Premiere reports.
- History Reports - added new Shots on Date reporting scope option.
- History Reports - Notes can appear as columns or rows.
- History Reports - fix for certain characters in Final Cut XML export.
- Settings - a field’s Input Style can now be set to a Snippet Group.
- Settings - added new Slate Behavior -> Clapper Triggers for finer grain control.
- Settings - added new Clapper Behavior -> Show User Bits on Clap option.
- Settings - added new “My Info” screen to Shot Log History section.
- Settings - added new “MovieSlate Store”.
- Help - added new Version Checker button.
- Help - added new “How-To Videos”.
- Help - added new “White Papers”.
- Help - moved “Our Apps” to the Help screen.
- Many, many other changes and improvements.
- Now really runs with iOS 4.2.