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Chapter 52: Working with Field Recorders in Pro Tools 1173
Production Terminology for Film
Workflows Only
The following terminology applies only to film
workflows:
Shootlist
The shootlist is a document in which the camera
assistant records each scene and take relative to
its keycode value on the film stock. It is later
used by the telecine operator to synchronize the
audio and video together.
Sound Log
The sound log is a document in which the pro-
duction sound mixer records each scene and
take relative to its beginning time code position.
Slate Operator and Clapboard Information
The slate operator holds and labels the slate
(also known as a clapboard) for each new scene
and take. At the start of each take, the slate op-
erator claps the slate, which simultaneously cap-
tures the following information:
• The scene, take, and time code information
is captured visually on film.
• The sound of the slate clapping is captured
by the field recorder, which should be us-
ing the same time code as displayed on the
slate.
The telecine operator uses all of the information
above to synchronize used film stock to the re-
corded audio in order to create the telecine vid-
eotape.
Telecine and Telecine Videotape
The Telecine is a machine used to transfer film
footage and synchronized audio to videotape
(referred to as the dailies).
The telecine videotape contains the dailies. The
SMPTE time code on the telecine videotape will
be different from the time code recorded on lo-
cation.
FLEx File
The FLEx file is a text file generated during a te-
lecine session that relates film keycode, field re-
corder time code, and telecine videotape time
code. When the telecine videotape is batch dig-
itized in the Avid application, the information
in the FLEx file is used to assign the original (lo-
cation) time code to the resulting audio and
video source files.
Supported Field Recorder
Audio Files and Metadata
Pro Tools supports the following audio files re-
corded by field recorders:
• OMF-wrapped media
•MXF
• Broadcast WAV (BWF) files with the following
metadata:
• Both BEXT and iXML chunks
• BEXT metadata but no iXML metadata