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• If you are going to export an audio Edit Decision List (EDL), you need to limit the audio to the first eight tracks in the Final Cut Pro Timeline. See Exporting an Audio EDL for more information. Using Effects, Filters, and Transitions Final Cut Pro and other Final Cut Studio applications provide extensive effects capabilities for video, including common film effects such as dissolves, wipes, motion effects, titles, color correction, and compositing. If your final output uses standard broadcast SD or HD resolutions, these effects can often be included directly in the final output. However, if your output is going to be higher-resolution video for digital projection (such as a 2K DPX image sequence), if the output will be converted to film using a digital film printer, or if you intend to conform the original camera negative, these effects will generally be used only to preview the final effect, which will be created at a visual effects facility. Effects and transitions are usually created for digitally edited film in the following ways (because of the changing and diverse nature of the industry, your actual experience may vary): • Basic transitions, titles, and motion effects for DI workflows: These effects are typically re-created by a digital visual effects facility. The facility uses a Cinema Tools-generated film list to either pull the already scanned DPX image sequences for the required video or have high-quality scans of the original film made, providing final-resolution video clips to work with. See Special Considerations for Effects in a DI Workflow for more information. • Basic transitions, titles, and motion effects for film workflows: These effects are typically re-created by a facility specializing in optical or contact printing, which uses the instructions given in a Cinema Tools-generated film list. Certain types of transitions can be created through contact printing (sometimes called A/B roll printing), where the emulsion sides of the original camera negative and the print stock are in contact as the original film is projected onto the print stock. Transitions, titles, and motion effects can be made through optical printing, where effects are created via a process of manipulating and projecting the original camera negative onto print stock through the lens on an optical printer. This process is often called creating opticals. See Contact Printing vs. Optical Printing for more information about factors to consider when choosing whether to use optical printing or contact printing. • Complex effects that involve compositing for all workflows: Effects such as chroma-keying, animation, and repositioning can be re-created digitally at high resolution at a digital visual effects facility. If you are using a DI workflow that uses low-bandwidth versions of the program's clips, draft versions of the effects are made and edited into the program, replacing the temporary placeholder effects (if present). The original high-resolution effects are used during the finishing process. Chapter 9 Editing with Final Cut Pro 151