“Paradigms of the market are changing on all levels: Business models applied for decades are changing and so is user behavior.” This was the guideline for last weeks technology conference “Changing the Picture” at Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam. New technologies concerning film productions were introduced and broadly discussed: http://www.changingthepicture.de/index.php?id=2 Something[…]
Lockit BLOG
The universal tool: CSV import
It’s about time to introduce You to our latest innovation in the Import-section on easyscott.com and lockitscript.com: the CSV-Import. Now, even if You don’t have a FinalDraft at hand, you can compile Your new project really quickly. It works like this: Use Your normal Excel scene list with single columns[…]
Top secret & in the land of sheep
We proudly announce two new projects drawing on our system for time-saving on set metadata management. New Irish soap “Red Rock” (working title) will apply our tool from this week on. Script supervisors Eva Kelly and Katie Burke will operate our comprehensive app for Script Supervisors by turns and post-production[…]
Update 1.0.3 for easySCOTT and LockitSCRIPT App
The next update (version 1.0.3) for THE app for script supervisors is now available online in iTunes store. That’s new about it: scenes and slates can now be manually set to “shooting started” in the settings new display of the elements not yet synced to the cloud iOS 8.1 compatibility[…]
Metadata Monday #23
We all know the problem: Despite the large number of possibilities, authors tend to deliver their scripts in PDF-format. Many tools have a tough time reading and processing PDF-files properly to make them handy for other tools in the follow up production steps. This is where the new tool “DramaQueen”[…]
TonMeister app available on the iTunes Store
Waiting time is the hardest part, but it’s finally over!! Location Sound Mixers around the world erupt with joy as our Tonmeister App is available in iTunes Store now. https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/tonmeister/id931110535?l=de&ls=1&mt=8 In addition to the handy input-tool for the sound report, the app stands out as remote control for the 788T[…]
New Explanatory Video Online
You’ve always been wondering, why people use easySCOTT and even pay for it? You don’t really understand what all this metadata-fuss is about? But still you never dared to give us call and put an end to this misery? Help is on the way! We produced a new explanatory video[…]
Creative Workflow Technologies
Is this it? Integrated digital workflow appears to be on its way into German production community. The establishment of recently founded research group D-Werft backs this interpretation (http://www.transfermedia.de/forschung/d-werft0.html). Its first step is researching end-to-end lossless interconnection of work processes using gathered information mutually via open, interoperating standards. Based on this[…]
easySCOTT & Ambient @IBC2014 @CINEC2014
Databases running hot again! Having two important fairs ahead of us we are heating up the machines once more. Right now we are busy with final preparations for Amsterdam-based IBC 2014 and CINEC 2014 in Munich. Again we team up with our technology partner Ambient Recording. We’ll show you the[…]
New projects: “Himmelsleiter” + “Ein starkes Team”
Metadata don’t go on holiday. Two more productions will start these days using our comfortable on-set metadata service. The two-part TV movie “Die Himmelsleiter” is shot by the Bavaria Film while the TV series “Ein starkes Team – Bergers Vermächtnis” is being produced by the UFA Fiction. Both Script Supervisors[…]