Blackmagicdesign Cinema Camera 6K - Entering Metadata; Slate

Entering Metadata
Metadata is information saved inside your clip, such as take numbers, camera settings and
other identifying details. This is extremely useful when sorting and processing footage in
postproduction. For example, take, shot and scene numbers are essential organisational
tools, while lens information can be used to automatically remove distortion or better match
VFXassets to plates.
Your Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K automatically saves some metadata to each clip, such
as camera settings, timecode, date and time. You can use your camera’s slate to add many
additional details.
Slate
Swipe left or right on your camera’s touchscreen from the main view to bring up the slate.
The slate is divided into ‘clip’ and ‘project’ tabs. The ‘clip’ tab contains information that may
vary clip by clip, while ‘project’ is where you enter details common between clips, such as the
project name, director, and camera and operator ID.
TIP Metadata entered into the slate is viewable on the HDMI output when ‘display
status text for’ is set to ‘director’ on the ‘monitor’ tab. See the ‘monitor settings’ section
in this manualfor more information.
‘Clip’ metadata
Making changes to clip metadata works differently in standby mode to playback mode. In
standby mode, when your camera is ready to record, clip metadata gets saved to the next clip
recorded, except the ‘good take last clip’ button applies a ‘good take’ tag to the most recently
recorded clip. In playback mode, when you are reviewing footage already shot, the ‘good take’
button is shown and clip metadata is always attached to the current clip being viewed.
When the camera is in playback mode, ‘slate for’ identifies the clip the slate
applies to and shows the ‘good take’ button. In standby mode, the slate is for
‘next clip’ and shows the ‘good take last clip’ button.
Slate for
This setting shows the clip which the metadata currently displayed in the ‘clip’ applies to.
Inplayback mode it applies to the current clip, and in standby mode it refers to the next clip
you record.
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