Opening final cut pro clips in cinema tools – Apple Final Cut Pro 7 User Manual

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The Project Properties dialog appears.

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Choose Feet+Frame from the Time Display pop-up menu.

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Choose the film standard from the Default Film Standard pop-up menu. The film standard
defines how many frames are in a foot.

You can also individually control the timecode display of the Timeline, Viewer, and Canvas.

To change the timecode display of the Timeline, Viewer, or Canvas

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Control-click a timecode field in the window whose timecode display you want to change,
then choose the mode from the shortcut menu.

For the Viewer and Canvas, this affects both timecode fields along their tops, and in the
case of the Viewer, the timecode fields of its tabs. For the Timeline, this affects the
timecode shown along the top of the window and in the Current Timecode field. The
timecode displays in the Transition Editor and Trim Edit windows are also affected.

Important:

The feet and frame values that are shown are not the same as keycode or ink

numbers. The feet and frame values always start at 0000+00 at the beginning of the
sequence or clip.

When using the Feet+Frame timecode display mode, you can enter values in the same
places you can enter timecode values. For example, you can enter a value in the Current
Timecode field of the Viewer to position the playhead in the Timeline. To ensure the
number you enter is correctly interpreted by Final Cut Pro, make sure to use one of the
following characters to separate the feet and frame values: Plus Sign (+), Ampersand (&),
Period (.), or Comma (,).

Opening Final Cut Pro Clips in Cinema Tools

You cannot directly change any items in a Cinema Tools database while in Final Cut Pro.
However, you can open a clip in Cinema Tools from Final Cut Pro to make changes to
that clip’s database record. Once you have done this, you need to synchronize that clip
with the Cinema Tools database so that the changes appear in Final Cut Pro.

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Working with Film and Cinema Tools

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