Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1649)

Creating a New Final Cut Pro Project
In almost all cases, you will edit your film project using a 24 fps (or 23.98 fps in most
NTSC-based workflows) editing timebase. An exception is film projects shot at 24 or 25 fps
and edited at PAL’s 25 fps rate.
To create a new project in Final Cut Pro
1 Choose File > New Project.
A new project is created with the default name of Untitled Project 1.
2 Choose File > Save Project As.
A dialog appears where you can name the project and select a location to save it to.
3 Click Save.
Importing a Telecine Log to Create a Cinema Tools Database
You can import a telecine log file, which is usually either a Flex file or an Avid Log Exchange
(ALE) file, into Cinema Tools or import it directly into Final Cut Pro. (Importing the file into
Final Cut Pro requires fewer steps.) When you import the log file into Final Cut Pro:
• Offline clips are created for each telecine log entry, and each entry has all film-related
information, such as edge code and camera roll numbers, added to it. (If you import
the log file into Cinema Tools, you will have to export a batch capture file to import
into Final Cut Pro.)
The names of the clips are based on the scene and take information from the log file.
Additionally, you are able to append a camera letter to clip items if there were multiple
cameras involved in a shoot.
• You choose whether to create a new Cinema Tools database or to import the records
into an existing database.
To import a telecine log file into Final Cut Pro
1 Choose File > Import > Cinema Tools Telecine Log.
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