Apple Cinema Tools 3 User Manual
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Chapter 6
Preparing the Source Clips for Editing
Note: If Cinema Tools finds pull-down information embedded in the source clips, a
simpler version of this dialog appears. See “
Removing 2:3:3:2 or 2:3:2:3 Pull-Down With
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From the “Conform to” pop-up menu, choose the frame rate that allows you to
maintain or restore audio/video sync.
 23.98: This frame rate is useful if you want to later use the Final Cut Pro pull-down
feature that lets you output 23.98 fps video as 29.97 fps video. (See “
Patterns You Can Apply to 23.98 fps Video
” on page 194 for more information.)
 24.0: You may want to conform and edit the clips at this rate if you plan to include
them in a project that contains other clips that are exactly 24 fps.
Note: If the audio and video are contained in the same clip, and you choose 24.0
from this pop-up menu, the Reverse Telecine feature increases the audio speed by a
very small percentage so that it is in sync with 24 fps instead of 23.98 fps.
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Leave the “Standard upper/lower” checkbox checked.
The “Standard upper/lower” checkbox should be checked unless you find that the
batch reverse telecine process does not produce the correct results. For more
information, see “
Checking Your Reverse Telecine Results
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To save the original clips in a separate folder, leave the Keep Originals checkbox
selected. If you don’t want to save the original clips, deselect it. (When you deselect it,
the original clips are deleted as each new clip is created.)
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Click OK to start the batch reverse telecine process.
After the process is complete, the following occur:
 For each clip in the folder, a new clip with the same name is created and placed in a
Cinema Tools–created subfolder named Reversed.
 If you selected “Keep Originals,” the original files are placed in a Cinema Tools–
created subfolder named Originals.
 If Cinema Tools is unable to complete the reverse telecine process for a clip, that clip
is moved into a Cinema Tools–created subfolder named Skipped. A clip is not
processed if it doesn’t contain a video track, if the frame rate is not supported, or if
no codec is found for the video track.
 A text file appears at the top level of the folder you started with, named reverse.log.
This log gives the date and time that the process started and ended, as well as a start
time for each clip. If any problems were encountered, such as running out of disk
space or memory, an error message describing the problem also appears in the log.
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