Apple Cinema Tools 4 - Manual (Page 7)

Cinema Tools is a powerful database that tracks Final Cut Pro edits for conforming film,
digital intermediate, and 24p video projects.
This preface covers the following:
• About Cinema Tools (p. 7)
• About the Cinema Tools Documentation (p. 8)
• Additional Resources (p. 8)
About Cinema Tools
In today’s post-production environment, it’s common for editors and filmmakers to find
themselves faced with a confounding array of formats, frame rates, and workflows
encompassing a single project. Projects are often shot, edited, and output using completely
different formats at each step.
For editors and filmmakers who specifically want to shoot and finish on film or use a
digital intermediate workflow, Cinema Tools becomes an essential part of the
post-production process when editing with Final Cut Pro. For example, when working
with film you need to be able to track the relationship between the original film frames
and their video counterparts. Cinema Tools includes a sophisticated database feature
that tracks this relationship regardless of the video standard you use, ensuring that the
film can be conformed to match your Final Cut Pro edits.
Cinema Tools also provides the ability to convert captured video clips to
24-frame-per-second (fps) video. For NTSC, this includes a Reverse Telecine feature that
removes the extra frames added during the 3:2 pull-down process commonly used when
transferring film to video or when downconverting 24p video.
Cinema Tools, in combination with Final Cut Pro, provides tools designed to make editing
film digitally, using digital intermediate processes involving Color, and working with 24p
video easier and more cost effective, providing functionality previously found only on
high-end or very specialized editing systems.
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