They call it the Metadata conveyer belt. It’s the title of the article on easySCOTT’s cooperation with Ambient Recording we found in the renowned German trade magazine for movie makers called Professional Production. Fair enough – after all, we are really conveying the precious metadata from the set into the[…]
Can you believe it? After all these years Microsoft finally has an understanding for us. After all these messed up progress reports, butchered editor’s logs and unreadable camera reports it’s finally here: Microsoft Excel for iPad. LockitNetwork users should be very happy – finally they can look up automated reports[…]
Wow, what an amazing show it was. The very first joint appearance of easySCOTT and Ambient Recording on the NAB Show 2014 was a raving success. The metadata network we developed in our tiny cooperation (including the metadata box and apps for Script Supervisors and Sound Mixers) was well received[…]
The easySCOTT Team will be heading for the NABShow in Las Vegas yet another year. This time, we won’t have our own booth but share one with our new partner in technology: Ambient Recording. In the future, Ambient will take care of the international distribution of our software solutions for[…]
Professional metadata management in film and TV production is increasingly important for the convenient and efficient information exchange between film set and post production. But every production has its own specifics, e.g. different camera systems and workflows. That is why it’s hard to implement a standard solution suitable for anybody.[…]
Today we give some attention to a prejudice firmly established in film industry: Final Cut X is a complete disaster and Apple’s backsliding from the professionals’ market. Well, we don’t want to judge on usability – we as digital film set natives are more interested in the metadata workflow. In[…]
That takes us back: easySCOTT is back on the set of “Um Himmels Willen” (For Heaven’s Sake), a famous German TV series in public broadcasting. This is where it all started out more than two years ago. In those days our system bore the interesting name “Uschi” and still suffered[…]
Cameras are getting smaller, better and more affordable. The developers from Blackmagicdesign lately launched the very latest big thing: the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema (http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/de/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera). For just 929 Euro, you get a super compact camera that however can compete with professional cameras in terms of quality. That must be the reason[…]
We are overjoyed! From now on, you can find an easySCOTT App in the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/easyscott-die-software-fur/id830594963?mt=8 Till now, the Script Supervisor was only to benefit from our App when the production company had booked our easySCOTT services. The app has always been a vital part of our metadata management[…]
Back in 2008 the possibilities of metadata in film production were pretty much unknown and idle. To push things forward, American director of photography and VFX supervisor Dave Stump gave a great lecture at the NABShow 2008. First he explained, what metadata actually are – by a stunning example: he[…]