Displaying film information in final cut pro – Apple Cinema Tools 4 User Manual

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Displaying Film Information in Final Cut Pro

You can display a variety of film-related information while editing the film’s clips in
Final Cut Pro. There are four areas you can control:

• Item Properties window: The Film tab of the Item Properties window lists the film-related

information for a clip. See

for

details.

• Browser: You can add columns that show film-related information such as key numbers

and telecine film speed (TK Speed). This information also appears in the Item Properties
window. See

for details.

• Viewer and Canvas: You can choose to include the keycode and ink numbers with the

timecode values in the overlay. See

Canvas

for more information.

• Timeline, Viewer, and Canvas: You can choose to show the frame count in a “feet and

frames” mode. See

Showing Film-Based Frame Counts

for more information.

To show film-related information in Final Cut Pro, you must first import the information
from Cinema Tools. There are three ways to do this:

• When you import an XML batch capture list exported from Cinema Tools, the film-related

information is also imported. See

Using XML Batch Capture Lists

for more information.

• Use Final Cut Pro to import a telecine log file. This adds any film-related information

contained in the log file to the offline clips. See

Importing Telecine Logs Using

Final Cut Pro

for more information.

• Use the Synchronize with Cinema Tools command, described in the next section,

Synchronizing Final Cut Pro Clips with Cinema Tools

Important:

You do not need to import or show film-related information in Final Cut Pro

to export film lists.

Synchronizing Final Cut Pro Clips with Cinema Tools

You cannot manually update a clip’s film information in Final Cut Pro—the information
must be imported from a Cinema Tools database. Final Cut Pro includes the ability to
synchronize one or more selected clips with a Cinema Tools database. This is especially
useful when you have imported a telecine log and captured the clips: synchronizing the
clips with their database automatically connects the clips to their records. You can also
create a new database, which adds the information for each clip to its record.

Tip: Creating a new database from a group of clips that are already part of another
database allows you to create specialized databases from Final Cut Pro. All of the
film-related information that the clips already contain is automatically added to their
records in the new database.

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