Apple Final Cut Pro HD (4.5): New Features - Manual (Page 73)

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Editing Film With Final Cut Pro
in a PAL Environment
New Support for Conforming 25 fps to 24 fps
and Exporting 25 fps EDLs
Final Cut Pro now provides features that let you conform 25 fps (PAL) media to 24 fps,
edit at 24 fps, and export a 25 fps EDL. This is for situations in which your content
originated on film and your negative cutter prefers to receive a 25 fps EDL from you
instead of a film cut list. In order to allow you to edit at the same speed as the film, and
yet export an accurate 25 fps EDL for the negative cutter, the 25 fps timecode is
maintained while the editing timebase of your sequence is 24 fps.
The new features that make this possible include:
• A DV PAL 24 @ 25 Easy Setup and DV PAL 48 kHz - 24 @ 25 sequence preset
• A “Conform 25 to 24” command in the Tools menu
• The ability to export a 25 fps EDL from a 24 fps sequence
• A new source timecode rate called 24 @ 25
Note: If your negative cutter prefers to receive a cut list rather than an EDL, use
Cinema Tools to create a clip database from the telecine log or ALE file and to conform
the clips to 24 fps. Then, you can export a cut list (called a film list) from your edited
sequence in Final Cut Pro. See the Cinema Tools documentation for more information
on creating databases and exporting film lists.
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