Features
A tool that earns its place on the cart.
Slate Tracker is one job done well. Read the slate, file the image, push the reference to the desk. Here is how each part of that actually works.
How our vision engine reads slates
Every image that lands in the watched folder is handed to our vision engine with a single instruction: parse the slate card.
We extract scene, shot, take, day, roll, and lens information. Each field comes with a confidence score so you can quickly review any uncertain reads in the dashboard.
Handwritten slates, printed slates, dirty slates, low light slates. If a human can read it, the recognition engine usually can too.
Automatic file and folder organisation
Filenames follow a simple, scannable pattern. S04_Sh02_T01.jpg. You can read it from across the truck.
Folder trees go Project, Day, Scene, Shot. No more dragging files between half made folders at lunch.
Naming conventions are configurable per project, so if your DIT has a house style you can match it exactly.
grandMA3 desk integration
Slate Tracker connects to your grandMA3 desk over the local network using the desk telnet API.
When a reference is filed under a given cue, the file path is written into that cue Note. Open the cue on the desk, see the reference path immediately.
Works with grandMA3 onPC as well as full size consoles.
Offline first design
Stage venues have flaky internet. Backlots have no internet at all.
The desktop app runs entirely on a workstation on your LAN. The local web dashboard at http://localhost:8765 is served from the same machine.
Cloud sync is for licensing and team coordination only. If the WAN drops mid show, the set keeps running.
Privacy first. Images never leave your network.
The full image file is sent to our vision engine for parsing, processed, and not retained. The underlying provider does not train on this data.
Once parsed, only the slate text and metadata are stored in your local SQLite database. The original image stays on your network share.
Production stills are sensitive material. We treat them that way by default.