Apple Cinema Tools 3 - Manual (Page 11)

Preface An Introduction to Cinema Tools 11
Editing 24P Video
The excellent quality of 24P video presents a challenge when it comes to editing—the
bandwidth and storage space it requires. Editing minimally compressed 24P video
directly in Final Cut Pro requires you to have a system with large, fast drives and
specialized capture hardware. Even with a properly configured system, you will only be
able to capture the video you actually intend to use, not the typical 20 to 100 hours
you may have shot.
The typical approach is to edit in two steps: an offline session, using compressed and
downconverted (to NTSC or PAL) clips, followed by an online session with recaptured
uncompressed clips.
Even if your Final Cut Pro system is not configured to edit uncompressed 24P video, it
can serve as an offline editor and export a 24 fps EDL to be used by a 24P online
editing system. Even better, if your online 24P editing system uses Final Cut Pro, you
can simply copy the project from the offline system, which allows you to preserve far
more information about the edit than an EDL alone can provide.
24P master
source
Capture
video
Online edit
(24 fps)
Edit
clips
24 fps
EDL NTSC or
PAL video
24P video
Convert
to 24 fps
Final Cut Pro with Cinema Tools
(offline edit)
Edited 24P
master
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