Slate (broadcasting) explained

In broadcasting, a slate is a title card listing important metadata of a television program, included before the first frame of the program. The broadcasting equivalent of a film leader, the slate is usually accompanied with color bars and tone, a countdown, and a 2-pop. In videotape workflows, slates help ensure that the tape received is the right one to broadcast (or to project, in the case of digital cinema) or to ingest into a digital playout system. It also provides helpful context for consideration in the re-editing of the material into a larger package. A convention from the videotape era of television broadcasting, the need for slates in a tapeless workflow has largely been usurped by the Material Exchange Format. However, the slate is still a regular and often-required fixture of television stations and other media companies .[1]

Common information

Common information to include in a slate includes, but is not limited to:

See also

Notes and References

  1. 2020 . Technical Operating Specification: Part 1: Program Submission . PBS Technology & Operations . Public Broadcasting System . https://web.archive.org/web/20220528010342/https://d1qbemlbhjecig.cloudfront.net/prod/filer_public/pbsproducerhandbook-bento-live-pbs/Production%20Guidelines%20(Red%20Book)/5c3352a824_2020%20TOS%20Pt%201%20Submission%20Update_(7.1.2020)%20(1).pdf . May 28, 2022.