Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1656)

Cinema Tools first checks the database for existing records without connected clips and
attempts to match the records with clip names (based on scene and take entries). If
matches are found, Cinema Tools connects the clips to the matching records. If no
matching records are found, new records are added to the database for each clip, with
any applicable information added to each record.
Editing Clips in Final Cut Pro
When you are editing a film-based project that you intend to conform the original camera
negative to, consider the following:
• When Cinema Tools is installed, Final Cut Pro includes a variety of Easy Setups intended
to be used when editing 24 fps–based media. Most of these Easy Setups have
“Cinema Tools” in their names. (An exception is the DV PAL 24 @ 25 Easy Setup.)
Note: Most Cinema Tools Easy Setups use a frame rate of 23.98 or 24 fps. To quickly
view available Cinema Tools Easy Setups in the Easy Setup dialog, choose 23.98 or
24 fps from the Rate pop-up menu.
• Each film list is based on one of the video tracks. You choose the video track to base
the film list on in the Export Film Lists or Export XML Film Lists dialog.
• Effects and transitions in your sequence must be re-created optically or digitally on
film. You can use Final Cut Pro in the creative process to determine and demonstrate
the effects you want, but don’t spend too much time creating elaborate effects unless
you have a separate workflow in place to match these effects on film.
• You need to keep track of duplicate usages of your source material. Because you have
only one original camera negative, you need to either avoid using any of the material
more than once (including allowing for frames, known as cut handles, used by the
splicing process when conforming the negative) or create a duplicate list (“dupe list”)
to give to your lab as part of a duplicate negative order.
See the Cinema Tools User Manual, available in Cinema Tools Help, for details about all of
these editing issues.
Using Edge Code Overlays and Feet+Frame Rulers
Final Cut Pro can display edge code overlays in the Canvas and Viewer, as well as
Feet+Frame rulers in the Timeline and other timecode fields. You are not required to use
these features to edit film footage in Final Cut Pro, but they can help you feel as though
you were working with film instead of film transferred to video.
Showing Film-Related Information in the Item Properties Window
The Film tab of the Item Properties window contains the film-related information for each
clip.
1656 Chapter 99 Working with Film and Cinema Tools