Apple Cinema Tools 4 - Manual (Page 57)

A Potential Database Shortcut for Camera-Roll Transfers
If you used a camera-roll transfer and need to manually create your database, you may
be able to save time by creating one database record per camera roll, depending on
whether or not the edge code number-to-timecode relationship is continuous for each
camera-roll transfer.
If the Edge Code Number-to-Timecode Relationship Is Continuous on Each Roll
You can create one database record per camera roll, and Cinema Tools can use the
timecode-based method of locating database records in order to create film lists. In this
case, each camera roll acts as one source clip.
As long as you create an accurate database record for the camera roll, Cinema Tools will
be able to accurately create film lists. However, if you also connect the source clips to the
database records, you are providing extra insurance that the match-back will go smoothly
even if there is a timecode error. See
Timecode-Based Workflow for a Camera-Roll Transfer
and How Cinema Tools Creates Film Lists for more information.
Even if you have a continuous edge code number-to-timecode relationship, you may
want to take the time to create database records for each source clip for your own
organizational and tracking purposes. For example:
• A database can be used to cross-check which take is on which sound roll and which
lab roll contains a negative you need.
• You may want to have records for each clip so that you can add notes about different
clips.
• Database records provide a poster frame of each clip for quick visual reference, and
you can access and play the whole clip from the database.
If the Edge Code Number-to-Timecode Relationship Is Noncontinuous on Each Roll
You need to create separate database records for each clip and connect each clip to its
record. Each database record must include the key number or ink number of the first
frame of the associated source clip, so that Cinema Tools can adequately track the edge
code number-to-timecode relationships throughout your sequence.
Additional Uses for the Database
Optionally, you may want to use the database for purposes beyond simply matching
video back to film, and this can affect how you create databases:
• Individual databases for dailies: If you have daily shoots that you want to process and
track separately, you can create new individual databases for each daily session. If you
do create individual databases for dailies, consider naming each database file by the
date of the daily. Eventually, you can merge the databases into a master database by
importing all the databases into one database.
57 Chapter 4 Creating a Cinema Tools Database