Apple Cinema Tools 3 - Manual (Page 129)

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Effects and transitions are usually created for digitally edited film in the following ways.
Due to the changing and diverse nature of the industry, your actual experience may vary.
 Basic transitions, titles, and motion effects: These effects are typically re-created by a
facility specializing in optical or contact printing, which uses the instructions given in
a Cinema Tools–generated film list. Certain types of transitions can be created
through contact printing (sometimes called A/B roll printing), where the emulsion
sides of the original camera negative and the print stock are in contact as the original
film is projected onto the print stock. Transitions, titles, and motion effects can be
made through optical printing, where effects are created via a process of
manipulating and projecting the original camera negative onto print stock through
the lens on an optical printer. This process is often called creating opticals. Some
factors in choosing whether to use optical printing or contact printing are discussed
in “
Contact Printing vs. Optical Printing ” on page 132.
 Complex effects that involve compositing: Effects such as bluescreening, animation,
and motion can be re-created digitally at high resolution with a high-end digital film
workstation and then output back to film using a digital film recorder. This is
sometimes called the film-digital-film method. First, the original camera negative is
scanned digitally, then the scanned digital copy is imported into a digital film
workstation and your special effects are created there before being recorded back to
film. There are digital effects labs that offer this service, using your film list as a guide
in determining the location and duration of motion effects and of superimposed
compositing effects such as bluescreens. While the film-digital-film method can
produce wonderful effects, be aware that it can be much more expensive than
optical printing.
Note: Digital film restoration and artifact removal are other types of digital
manipulation that commonly occur with the film-digital-film method. This kind of
digital manipulation is not tracked by a cut list, but sourced out to a lab.
What About Color Correction and Filters?
Final Cut Pro offers many color correction and filter capabilities, but these are not
effects that can be tracked by a cut list. Any color correction or filter-like effects in
your finished film are created by a specialist at a film-printing facility or via the film-
digital-film method. You can work directly with a color specialist (often known as a
color timer) to include color correction in your film.
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