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original camera negative Also known as OCN. The negatives from the film shoot; the
original source film. The original camera negative is what the negative cutter cuts after
all the edits have been finalized in the digital editing system. There is only one original
camera negative. (Duplicate negatives can be made, but they are expensive.)

PAL Acronym for Phase Alternating Line. A video format used by many European countries
and other countries outside North America. The PAL video standard is 25 fps, 625 lines
per frame, and interlaced.

progressive video A video frame format that progressively scans all lines in a frame.
See also

interlaced video

.

pull list A film list Cinema Tools users can export, which list shots in the cut list in the
order in which they can be found on the negative rolls. The lab refers to a pull list when
going through your negative rolls to pull shots for a workprint or original camera negative
cut.

release print A positive print of a finished movie; the final product for distribution.

reverse telecine The process that removes the extra frames from 3:2 pull-down video,
returning it to its original 24 fps frame rate. Reverse telecine creates a one-to-one
relationship between the video and film frames so that the cut lists are accurate. Reversing
the 3:2 pull-down can be accomplished with hardware in real time during capture, but
if you do not have the proper equipment, you can use the Cinema Tools Reverse Telecine
feature. See also

3:2 pull-down

.

scene In filming, a time and place setting for one or more shots, typically tied together
by a common story line or certain characters.

scene list A film list Cinema Tools users can export, which lists all the shots that are in
the cut list with each shot listed only once. Scene lists are typically used to order prints
of the shots in a program so that a workprint can be conformed prior to cutting the
original camera negative.

SD video See

standard definition video

.

shot A continuous film recording that does not have any cuts. A shot is a subset of a
scene.

slug Blank (fill leader) or substitute footage used to fill in spaces where footage is
temporarily missing, in order to maintain sync between the picture and the soundtrack.

SMPTE Abbreviation for Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. The
standard-setting organization that established the SMPTE timecode standard for video.
SMPTE timecode is the most commonly used timecode format.

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