Apple Cinema Tools 3 User Manual
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Chapter 7
Editing
Ensuring Cut List Accuracy While Editing 3:2 Pull-Down
or 24&1 Video
With 3:2 pull-down NTSC video or 24&1 PAL video, a film frame that is matched back
from your edits may turn out to be the one before or the one after your original edit
point. (This is explained in “
With 3:2 pull-down NTSC video, you can avoid such match-back inaccuracies by using
the Cinema Tools Reverse Telecine feature or third-party hardware reverse telecine to
reverse the 3:2 telecine pull-down before you begin editing.
If you did not reverse the 3:2 pull-down in NTSC video (or if you are working with
24&1 PAL video), you can still avoid cut list inaccuracies through careful editing. Your
goal for each clip is to make sure that the frame showing the slate, or the last frame
of the previous shot, doesn’t end up in the final film:
 When setting edit points for a clip, be careful not to place the In point at the first
good frame in the clip, or the Out point at the last frame. In other words, set the In
point at least one frame after your shot starts and the Out point at least one frame
before the last frame in the shot.
 If you must edit on the first or last frame of a shot, make a note of the key number
from the window burn, and review the cut list later to confirm that the key number
is the same in the cut list.
 Avoid putting In or Out points at frames with two fields that contain two different
frames from the film. For example, don’t place an edit at a BC or CD frame.
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