Before wrap, the cells worth looking at

Seven cells. Two minutes. Before the card leaves your hands.

• Card / roll (Tape, Camroll, Soundroll). Transcribed, not generated: blank means nobody typed it. Ask once at wrap, while the magazine is still on the table.
• In-point timecode (Start). What the camera showed when it rolled. Blank means it was never recorded — and there is no later step that recovers it.
• Out-point timecode (End, TC Out). Whatever was read at the moment you call stop: the recording chain captures the screen value as it stops, and you can copy it off the camera into the out-point box on the take. Missed on both paths, the cell stays empty and the reconcile sheet names it TC_OUT_MISSING; the software will not advance the in-point by a duration to fill it in.
• Sync sound pair (Soundroll + Sound TC). A sync take wants both. One without the other is the shape that breaks matching in the suite.
• Source file (Source File Name, Source File). The link to the actual media. Not transcribed, not invented by us.
• Drop-frame declaration (TC Mode). DF appears only where the camera’s menu was read. Blank is no declaration — not non-drop-frame.
• Ownership (Shoot Day, Shoot date, Unit). A take belonging to no shooting day leaves these blank, and that day’s paperwork cannot be rebuilt from anything else.

Two rulers, and they are meant to differ. Duration in the machine-readable files is the frame-accurate span between the in-point and the out-point, excluding the tail frame — on the take’s screen that span is the read-only “TC duration”. The “Scene duration” you type is your own stopwatch reading — how long the action actually ran, with preroll, the slate and a director who rolls early inside it — and it travels beside Duration as SlateX Set Time. Nothing prefills that field for you. When the two disagree, the reconcile sheet marks the row so somebody looks; it changes nothing, and the gap is not automatically an error.

The sheet that lists them for you. A single-day export can carry a reconcile sheet: fourteen codes naming what is missing or self-contradictory in our own record. It reads neither the camera report nor the sound report, so “consistent” on that sheet means our checks found nothing — it is not two departments agreeing.

One page, in the binder. Full detail: What to Check Before Using an ALE for Matching.