Considerations when originating on film – Apple Cinema Tools 4 User Manual
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Considerations When Originating on Film
When editing 24p material that originated on film, you need to be aware of a number of
special circumstances.
Final Cut Pro with
Cinema Tools (offline edit)
Shoot
film
Convert to
video with
a telecine
Conform
negative
Online
editor
24p
VTR
Telecine log
Original camera negative
Cut list
24 fps
EDL
24p video
Edited
film
master
Edited
video
master
Capture
and process
Edit
Export cut list
Export 24 fps EDL
Create
database
Cinema Tools
• If you intend to conform the film to match the edited video, you must have its edge
code tracked by a Cinema Tools database. (See
for details about edge
code.)
• The film must be transferred to video using a telecine. Typically the offline telecine
video output contains burned-in video and audio timecode, as well as key numbers.
These burned-in values (known as window burn) are invaluable when you intend to
later conform the film. Unfortunately, their visibility is a problem if you also intend to
use the 24p video to produce a video version of the program. For this reason, if you
intend to produce both a conformed film and an edited video version of the project,
you might have the telecine run on two decks simultaneously, one with the window
burn and the other without.
• Whether you’re shooting film or 24p video, sound is almost always recorded separately
from the picture, with a separate sound recorder. This is often referred to as recording
dual system sound. Although 24p productions can record the sound on the 24p video
recorder, providing synced audio that is easily captured with Final Cut Pro, film
productions do not have the option of recording sound on the film, so the audio must
be synced to the picture at some point later in the process. The preferred workflow is
to synchronize the audio during the telecine transfer. This makes it easy to capture the
audio along with the video clips for editing with Final Cut Pro. The Cinema Tools
database can track the original sound roll numbers and audio timecode and generate
an audio EDL that can be used to recapture and edit the audio at an audio
post-production facility.
See
for information about telecine transfers. See
for
information about exporting audio EDLs.
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Working with 24p Video and 24 fps EDLs