Love ggwave! I used it on a short film set a few years ago to automatically embed slate information into each take and it worked insanely well.
If anyone wants details: I had a smartphone taped to the back of the slate with a UI to enter shot/scene/take and when I clicked the button it would transmit that information along with a timestamp as sound. This sound was loud enough to be picked up by all microphones on set, including scratch audio on the cameras, phones filiming BTS, etc.
In post-production, I ran a script to extract this from all the ingested files and generate a spreadsheet. I then had a script to put the files into folders and a Premiere Pro script to put all the files into a main and a BTS timeline by timestamp.
Yes, timecode exists and some implementations also let you add metadata, but we had a wide mix of mostly consumer-grade gear so that simply wasn't an option.
If anyone wants details: I had a smartphone taped to the back of the slate with a UI to enter shot/scene/take and when I clicked the button it would transmit that information along with a timestamp as sound. This sound was loud enough to be picked up by all microphones on set, including scratch audio on the cameras, phones filiming BTS, etc.
In post-production, I ran a script to extract this from all the ingested files and generate a spreadsheet. I then had a script to put the files into folders and a Premiere Pro script to put all the files into a main and a BTS timeline by timestamp.
Yes, timecode exists and some implementations also let you add metadata, but we had a wide mix of mostly consumer-grade gear so that simply wasn't an option.
I posted a short demo video on Reddit at the time, but it got basically no traction: https://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/nsv3eo/i_made_a...