Apple Cinema Tools 3 User Manual
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Chapter 7
Editing
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In determining whether or not any frames have been used more than once, Cinema Tools
assumes, due to typical A and B roll film splicing (also called checkerboarding), that there
is at least one half of a frame lost at both the In point and the Out point of each cut of
film. In Cinema Tools, these frames are called cut handles. Some negative cutters may
want to use more than a half-frame on each side of a cut. In the Film Lists dialog, you can
specify up to five and one-half frames of cut handles. If you inadvertently include, in a
sequence, frames that are needed as cut handles, Cinema Tools reports them as duplicate
usages in the dupe list and the double usage warnings.
It’s important to check for duplicate usages before you lock the picture and prepare to
have the original camera negative cut. To find out how to export a dupe list and
include duplicate usage information in a film list, see Chapter 8, “
Using Nested Sequences When Checking for Duplicate Uses
If you are editing your project as multiple sequences (for example, one sequence for
each reel), it’s best to place all the sequences together before exporting a dupe list.
This way Cinema Tools will be able to find duplicate usages across the entire feature.
An easy approach is to place all the sequences into a nested sequence before
generating a dupe list.
However, when you intend to export a film list, do not nest part of one sequence into
another sequence. Only whole-sequence nesting is supported when you export a
Cinema Tools list. See the Final Cut Pro documentation for information on creating a
nested sequence.
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