Apple Cinema Tools 3 - Manual (Page 9)

Preface An Introduction to Cinema Tools 9
If your production process involves workprint screenings and modifications, you can
also use Cinema Tools to create change lists that describe what needs to be done to a
workprint to make it match the new version of the sequence edited in Final Cut Pro.
What Cinema Tools Does
Cinema Tools tracks all of the elements that go into the making of the final film. It
knows the relationship between the original camera negative, the transferred
videotapes, and the captured video clips on the editing computer. It works with
Final Cut Pro to store information on how the video clips are being used and generates
the cut list required to transform the original camera negative into the final edited
movie.
Cinema Tools also checks for problems that can arise while using Final Cut Pro, the
most common one being duplicate uses of source material: using a shot (or a portion
of it) more than once. Besides creating duplicate lists, you can use Cinema Tools to
generate other lists, such as one dealing with opticals—the placement of transitions,
motion effects (video at other than normal speed), and titles.
Cinema Tools can also work with the production sound, tracking the relationship
between the audio used by Final Cut Pro and the original production sound sources. It
is possible to use the edited audio from Final Cut Pro when creating an Edit Decision
List (EDL) and process (or finish) the audio at a specialized audio postproduction facility.
It’s important to understand that you use Final Cut Pro only to make the edit
decisions—the final edited video output is not typically used, since the video it is
edited from generally is compressed and includes burned-in timecode (window burn)
and film information. It is the edit-based cut list that you can generate with
Cinema Tools that is the goal.
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