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Chapter 4
Creating and Using a Cinema Tools Database
Additional Uses for the Database
Optionally, you may want to use the database for purposes beyond simply matching
video back to film, and this can affect how you create databases:
 Individual databases for dailies: If you have daily shoots that you want to process and
track separately, you can create new individual databases for each daily session. If
you do create individual databases for dailies, consider naming each database file by
the date of the daily. Eventually, you can merge them into a master database by
importing all the databases into one database.
 Creating an audio Edit Decision List (EDL): If you plan to give an audio EDL to the
audio-finishing facility, make sure that the audio and video timecode information
and sound roll information is entered in each database record. Creating the database
by importing a telecine log is the easiest and most efficient way to make sure that all
the necessary information is entered into the database.
Creating a New Database
When you start a new database, you make default selections for your project settings
in the New Database dialog.
Note: When you import data from a telecine log, the film standard, video timecode
rate, audio timecode rate, and telecine speed are typically included in the log, and are
automatically set in Cinema Tools. Data from the telecine log takes precedence over
the defaults, so even if your default settings are different from the telecine log data,
Cinema Tools will use the settings in the telecine log.
To create a new database in Cinema Tools:
1
Open Cinema Tools, and click Cancel when the database selection dialog appears.
2
Choose Database > New Database.
Note: The New Database menu item is not available if there are any Cinema Tools
databases open. Close any open databases in order to access the New Database menu.
3
In the New Database dialog, choose default settings for your database. See “
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