Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1661)

178 Part II Project Interchange
Exporting Film, Change, and Audio Lists
Once you finish editing a sequence in Final Cut Pro, you can export a film cut list or
audio edit list. Final Cut Pro sends the video timecode and clip information to
Cinema Tools, which then opens the appropriate database and maps the timecode
back to corresponding edge code numbers.
About Film Lists
A film list contains one or more lists describing your Final Cut Pro sequence in terms
relevant to a negative cutter or film optical house. The most basic list is a cut list, which
describes edge code start and end numbers for each clip and any simple effects such
as dissolves or fades. Cinema Tools can export a customized film list as a PDF file or an
XML file that you can further process however you want.
About Change Lists
Inevitably, there are changes to a movie after the picture is “locked.” When you make
last-minute changes in Final Cut Pro, you can export a change list that describes the
changes between a previous film list and your current sequence. A negative cutter can
then modify the film as necessary.
About Audio EDLs
Film lists describe only the video portion of your sequence. An audio EDL exports audio
clip start and end timecode values from your sequence. You can bring the audio EDL to
an audio post-production facility for audio cleanup and final mixing.
How Cinema Tools Relates Final Cut Pro Sequence Clips
to Database Records
When you are creating a film list from Final Cut Pro, Cinema Tools has two methods
to relate each clip to records in a database.
 Clip name matching: The first thing Cinema Tools tries to do is match the clip name
used in a Final Cut Pro sequence to a clip name in the corresponding Cinema Tools
database. If a match is found, the clip in the database is used to supply information
to the film list. If a matching database record cannot be found based on clip name,
Cinema Tools switches to the timecode-based matching method.
 Timecode matching: If clip name matching fails, Cinema Tools tries to match a
sequence clip’s video reel number and timecode with a record in the Cinema Tools
database. If this method fails, a missing element note is made in the cut list.
This means you can get accurate film lists whether or not you connect the clips to the
Cinema Tools database. If you don’t connect clips to the database, however, you must
use care to not alter the clip’s timecode and make sure the video reel number is
exactly the same as is in the database.