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easySCOTT features Adobe Story Import

We are happy to announce that we have accomplished the enhancement of the easySCOTT import function that makes the preperations for a project as easy as possible for the Script Supervisor. Our vision: to be able to import data from every preproduction tool via the easySCOTT webaccess. The benefit: no[…]

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We’re going to need another Timmy!

There’s a lot to do and the finish until NABShow in April already started. So it was clear: We’re going to need another Timmy! That’s why we are so happy that our easySCOTT Team has a new member. Tim Bodeit will support us as a trainee and help out in[…]

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Film dictionairy english – german, part 3

Movie terminology translated – this time: crew members   German English Script & Continuity Script Supervisor Regisseur Director Drehbuchautor Screenwriter Produktionsleiter Production Manager Aufnahmeleiter Unit Manager (auch: Location Manager) Kameramann DOP (Director of Photography) auch: cinematographer Oberbeleuchter Gaffer Assistenz Oberbeleuchter Best Boy Maske Make Up Cutter Editor Ausstatter Set Designer[…]

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Cola, lime and… metadata

Our easySCOTT leaves the continent and travels to Cuba for making a TV movie, following the production company Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH. The flick to make is gonna be named “Der Mann ohne Schatten”, meaning “The Man Without a Shadow”, starring the famous German actor Jan-Josef Liefers. The[…]

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Film dictionairy english – german, part 2

Movie terminology translated – this time: shot sizes   German English Totale Wide Shot (WS) (also: Long Shot) Supertotale Very Wide Shot (VWS) (also: Very Long Shot) Panorama Extreme Wide Shot (EWS) (also: Extreme Long Shot) Amerikanische American Shot Halbnahe Medium Shot (MS) (also: Mid Shot) Nahe Medium Close Up[…]

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The new easySCOTT metadata box is coming – a mighty midget

Yippee, the new chassis of our easySCOTT metadata box are there. And, yeah, they feel good. At the moment they get filled with finest easySCOTT technology This generation already has the Ambient technology inside. So now, the easySCOTT metadata box can be used as a fully functional Tiny Lockit. That[…]

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First mockups for our Sound Mixer App

With the appreciated help of your feedback, we created a draft of the digital Sound Report. Next thing to do is to develop the corresponding app able to adequately fill the report. Today we’re giving you the chance to look behind the scenes of our intensive work. Right now, we[…]

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Film dictionairy english – german, part 1

Movie terminology translated – this time: reports   German English Tagesbericht Daily Progress Report Cutterbericht (Daily) Editor‘s Log Szene / Bild scene Einstellung shot (also: “slate”) Vorstopp (VS) estimated running time (ERT.) Drehstopp (DS) actual running time (ART.) Innen interior (INT.) Aussen exterior (EXT.) Objektiv lens Blende aperture Nur Ton[…]

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Ninety minutes full of metadata

You were always wondering how much metadata know-how goes in 90 minutes, weren’t you? Or if anybody can blabber that long on that matter? We feel urged to answer: yes, we can. We did a couple of weeks ago on the the IPS Timecode & Sync Training Day in Beaconsfield.[…]

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