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writing on the back of the picture. Metadata
in practical application holds the promise of
automating many of the manual processes of
lmmaking. We are on the verge of automating
camera reports, lens data on a frame-by-frame
basis, script reports, visual effects data collection,
sound reports, and all of handwritten “metapa-
per” that has in the past so tediously consumed
production time and which has been so prone to
data entry errors.
As an example of the kinds of metadata
about camera images supplied to editing systems
via ALE or XML les, here is a list of the data
columns that the ARRI ALEXA provides auto-
matically: ...