For gaffers, lighting programmers, DITs
Stop renaming
reference images.
Slate Tracker watches your reference folder, reads the slate card in every 360 image automatically, and files it under the right scene, shot, and take. It then pushes a link back to your grandMA3 desk so the next time you call up that cue, the reference is there.
14 day free trial. No card required.
The problem
Reference images pile up. The set keeps moving.
On a working set, someone is always shooting a 360. By the wrap of day one you have eight hundred images sitting in a single folder with names like IMG_4738.JPG. The shoot moves on. The references never get sorted.
By the relight on day fourteen, finding the right reference for Scene 47 Take 3 means scrolling through a thousand thumbnails on a DIT cart while the director waits. So you skip it, and you light from memory.
Slate Tracker is the quiet utility that does the sorting so you do not have to.
How it works
Three steps. Zero typing.
Drop a 360 in the watch folder
Any shooter on set can save a 360 reference into the watched directory. No app to open, no metadata to fill in. Just save the file.
Our vision engine reads the slate card
The image is handed to our vision engine with one job: parse the slate. Scene, shot, take, day, roll, lens. The result is checked against your project sheet for sanity.
Filed, renamed, and pushed to the desk
The file is renamed S04_Sh02_T01.jpg, moved into Project/Day_01/Scene_04/Shot_02/, and the path is written into the matching cue Note on your grandMA3 desk.
What you get
Built for the lighting truck, not the boardroom.
Automated slate reading
Reads handwritten and printed slate cards. Returns confidence per field so you can flag uncertain reads.
Auto folder structure
Project, day, scene, shot, take. Filenames you can read in a glance from any DIT cart.
grandMA3 integration
Writes reference paths into cue Notes via the desk telnet API. Open the cue, see the reference.
Offline first
Runs entirely on a workstation on your LAN. Set survives if the venue Wi Fi dies mid show.
Privacy by design
Images stay on your network. Only the slate text leaves the box during recognition. Nothing is retained.
Searchable local database
SQLite under the hood. Find every reference for a given scene in milliseconds.
Pricing
Straightforward tiers.
Solo
For a single gaffer or lighting programmer on a single workstation.
- 1 user
- 500 images per month
- Single workstation
- grandMA3 integration
- Community support
Team
RecommendedFor a small lighting department running multiple carts.
- 5 users
- 2,500 images per month
- Multi workstation
- grandMA3 integration
- Email support
Production
For a full production with multiple units and a shared library.
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited images
- Multi workstation
- grandMA3 integration
- Priority support, SLA
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