Apple Cinema Tools 3 - Manual (Page 213)

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How Cinema Tools Creates
Film Lists
Cinema Tools can produce a film list only if it can match edits made in the editing
system to records in the Cinema Tools database. The database record contains the film
roll and key number information that Cinema Tools needs in order to describe the edit
in the film list.
In creating a film list, there are two basic methods Cinema Tools uses to locate a
database record associated with a particular edit:
 Clip-based method: Cinema Tools obtains the clip name from Final Cut Pro, then
looks for the clip in the database. Cinema Tools first tries to locate the clip based on
the clip pathname indicated in the editing system. If it fails to find the clip by looking
for the pathname, it searches for the clip by its name and modification date. When
Cinema Tools finds the clip in the database, it can also locate the associated record,
because each clip must be linked to one record.
 Timecode-based method: If Cinema Tools can’t find the database record using the clip
name, it finds the database record by looking for the video reel and timecode
associated with the edit in the sequence in Final Cut Pro.
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