I live near his garage and see him out driving all the time. Once he had a steam powered monstrosity and another he had a beautiful vintage Aston Martin. It’s a real treat.

Eh, scratch is all well and good until it goes wrong. The whole reason for the slate is redundancy.

If everything goes right, you have scene and take embedded in the metadata. If not, the slate is there to mark it.

If everything goes right, you can jam sync with timecode. If not, the slate is there to provide the necessary sync point.

Many programs can sync scratch audio and production audio. But sometimes that doesn’t work, so you go to the slate.

The clicker idea works until scratch audio goes wrong for some reason. It’s almost always better to just slate.

I grew up on a farm and my whole family agrees that Clarkson’s Farm is the most accurate portrayal of farm life in television. The montage scene where he describes his daily life, and how it’s just problems on problems on problems all day long, but at the end of the day you get to eat a dinner made from things you grew and made.

And that makes it all worth it.

For podcasts and other audio only mediums, yes, but you 100% need the visual of the sticks coming together to properly sync audio and video.