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Table Of Contents
- Cinema Tools User Manual
- Contents
- An Introduction to Cinema Tools
- Part I: Using Cinema Tools
- Before You Begin Your Project
- The Cinema Tools Workflow
- The Cinema Tools Interface
- Creating and Using a Cinema Tools Database
- Understanding the Basic Structure of a Cinema Tools Database
- Deciding How You Should Create the Database
- Creating a New Database
- Entering Information in the Database
- Modifying Information in the Database
- Verifying and Correcting Edge Code Numbers and Timecodes
- Working With the Database
- Capturing Source Clips and Connecting Them to the Database
- Preparing to Capture
- Connecting Captured Source Clips to the Database
- Fixing Broken Clip-to-Database Links
- Preparing the Source Clips for Editing
- Editing
- Generating Film Lists and Change Lists
- Export Considerations and Creating Audio EDLs
- Working With External EDLs and ALE Files
- Part II: Working With 24P
- Working With 24P Video and 24 fps EDLs
- Considerations When Originating on Film
- Editing 24P Video With Final Cut Pro
- Adding and Removing Pull-Down in 24P Clips
- Using Audio EDLs for Double System Sound
- Working With 24P Video and 24 fps EDLs
- Part III: Appendixes
- Glossary
- Index
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10 Working With External EDLs
and ALE Files
You can use Cinema Tools to work on projects started on
other systems.
On occasion you may find that you want to create film lists, including a cut list, based on
edits from an editing system other than Final Cut Pro. For this reason, Cinema Tools lets
you generate film lists based on Edit Decision Lists (EDLs) created with other systems.
Cinema Tools also lets you import and export Avid Log Exchange (ALE) files. These files
contain most of the film, video, and audio information in a Cinema Tools database, in a
format supported by most film-based editing systems. They do not contain any edit-
based information (as is found in an EDL).
Creating EDL-Based Film Lists
The same considerations you have to take into account when creating film lists from
within Final Cut Pro apply to other video editing applications. You must
 have a complete and accurate Cinema Tools database that includes the film and
timecode information
 have video timecode and reel numbers in the EDL that match exactly those in the
Cinema Tools database
 be prepared to deal with audio speed issues that may affect synchronization with the
picture
All of the considerations related to the telecine transfer, including whether the scene-
and-take or camera-roll method was used, apply as well. The telecine log from a scene-
and-take transfer is still the best way to build your Cinema Tools database. See
Chapter 4, “Creating and Using a Cinema Tools Database,” on page 61 for information
on building a Cinema Tools database.
Important: When you export a film list from an EDL, Cinema Tools has to use the
timecode-based method of film list creation. For this reason, you must be careful to
have accurate video timecode values in the database, since they alone, and not the
actual clips, provide the edit information for generating the lists.
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