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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: Enable and view a clapperboard with extracted metadata |
| 3 | +description: Learn about how to enable and view a clapperboard with extracted metadata. |
| 4 | +author: Juliako |
| 5 | +manager: femila |
| 6 | +ms.topic: article |
| 7 | +ms.date: 09/20/2022 |
| 8 | +ms.author: juliako |
| 9 | +--- |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +# Enable and view a clapperboard with extracted metadata (preview) |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +The clapperboard insight is used to detect clapper board instances and information written on each. For example, *head* or *tail* (the board is upside-down), *production*, *roll*, *scene*, *take*, etc. A [clapperboard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapperboard)'s extracted metadata is most useful to customers involved in the movie post-production process. |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +When the movie is being edited, the slate is removed from the scene but a metadata with what's on the clapper board is important. Azure Video Indexer extracts the data from clapperboards, preserves and presents the metadata as described in this article. |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +This insight is most useful to customers involved in the movie post-production process. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +## View the insight |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +### View post-production insights |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +In order to set the indexing process to include the slate metadata, select the **Video + audio indexing** -> **Advanced** presets. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +> [!div class="mx-imgBorder"] |
| 26 | +> :::image type="content" source="./media/slate-detection-process/advanced-setting.png" alt-text="This image shows the advanced setting in order to view post-production clapperboards insights."::: |
| 27 | +
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| 28 | +After the file has been uploaded and indexed, if you want to view the timeline of the insight, select the **Post-production** checkmark from the list of insights. |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +> [!div class="mx-imgBorder"] |
| 31 | +> :::image type="content" source="./media/slate-detection-process/post-production-checkmark.png" alt-text="This image shows the post-production checkmark needed to view clapperboards."::: |
| 32 | +
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| 33 | +### Clapperboards |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +Clapperboards contain titles, like: *production*, *roll*, *scene*, *take* and values associated with each title. |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +The titles and their values' quality may not always be recognizable. For more information, see [limitations](#clapperboard-limitations). |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +For example, take this clapperboard: |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +> [!div class="mx-imgBorder"] |
| 42 | +> :::image type="content" source="./media/slate-detection-process/clapperboard.png" alt-text="This image shows a clapperboard."::: |
| 43 | +
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| 44 | +In the following example the board contains the following fields: |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +|title|content| |
| 47 | +|---|---| |
| 48 | +|camera|COD| |
| 49 | +|date|FILTER (in this case the board contains no date)| |
| 50 | +|director|John| |
| 51 | +|production|Prod name| |
| 52 | +|scene|FPS| |
| 53 | +|take|99| |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +#### View the insight |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +To see the instances on the website, select **Insights** and scroll to **Clapperboards**. You can hover over each clapperboard, or unfold **Show/Hide clapperboard info** and see the metadata: |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +> [!div class="mx-imgBorder"] |
| 60 | +> :::image type="content" source="./media/slate-detection-process/clapperboard-metadata.png" alt-text="This image shows the clapperboard metadata."::: |
| 61 | +
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| 62 | +#### View the timeline |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +If you checked the **Post-production** insight, You can also find the clapperboard instance and its timeline (includes time, fields' values) on the **Timeline** tab. |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +#### Vew JSON |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +To display the JSON file: |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +1. Select Download and then Insights (JSON). |
| 71 | +1. Copy the `clapperboard` element, under `insights`, and paste it into your Online JSON Viewer. |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +> [!div class="mx-imgBorder"] |
| 74 | +> :::image type="content" source="./media/slate-detection-process/clapperboard-json.png" alt-text="This image shows the clapperboard metadata in json."::: |
| 75 | +
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| 76 | +The following table describes fields found in json: |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +|Name|Description| |
| 79 | +|---|---| |
| 80 | +|`id`|The clapperboard ID.| |
| 81 | +|`thumbnailId`|The ID of the thumbnail.| |
| 82 | +|`isHeadSlate`|The value stands for head or tail (the board is upside-down) of the clapper board: `true` or `false`.| |
| 83 | +|`fields`|The fields found in the clapper board; also each field's name and value.| |
| 84 | +|`instances`|A list of time ranges where this element appeared.| |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +## Clapperboard limitations |
| 87 | + |
| 88 | +- The titles of the fields appearing on the clapper board are optimized to identify the most popular fields appearing on top of clapper boards. |
| 89 | +- Handwritten text or digital digits may not be correctly identified by the fields detection algorithm. |
| 90 | +- The algorithm is optimized to identify fields categories that appear horizontally. |
| 91 | +- The clapper board may not be detected if the frame is blurred or that the text written on it can't be identified by the human eye. |
| 92 | +- Empty fields’ values may lead to to wrong fields categories. |
| 93 | +<!-- If a part of a clapper board is hidden a value with the highest confidence is shown. --> |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +## Next steps |
| 96 | + |
| 97 | +* [Slate detection overview](slate-detection-insight.md) |
| 98 | +* [How to enable and view digital patterns with color bars](digital-patterns-color-bars.md). |
| 99 | +* [How to enable and view textless slate with matched scene](textless-slate-scene-matching.md). |
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