Apple Cinema Tools 3 - Manual (Page 73)

Chapter 4 Creating and Using a Cinema Tools Database 73
Entering Database Information Manually
You can use the Detail View window to manually edit database records. Before you can
edit information in a database, you need to create database records.
Note: If a database record has already been created for a clip, you can also use the
Identify window to enter information. See “
Using the Identify Feature to Enter and
Calculate Database Information ” on page 82 for more information.
Understanding the Relationship Between Scenes, Shots, and Takes
To enter scene, take, and shot information in the database, you first need to know
how scenes, shots, and takes are understood by the database.
A motion picture production is composed of a series of scenes, and each scene is
typically composed of a number of shots or angles. A shot is a continuous film
recording that does not have any cuts. In shooting the film, there may be a number
of takes for each shot, so a take is a version of shot. There can be many shots for each
scene. The diagram below shows an example of the relationship between scenes,
shots, and takes as they might exist in a Cinema Tools database.
SCENE 1
SHOT 1
TAKE 1
TAKE 2
TAKE 4
TAKE 2
TAKE 3
TAKE 5
SHOT 1A
SHOT 1B
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