Apple M8728Z/A User Manual - Page 16

• Importing telecine logs using Final Cut Pro: When you import a telecine log using Final Cut Pro, you choose whether to import it into an existing Cinema Tools database or whether a new database should be created. As records are added to the selected Cinema Tools database, each record also creates an offline clip in the Final Cut Pro Browser so that clips can be batch captured. The film-related information from the telecine log is automatically added to each clip. You can show this information in a variety of ways while editing the clips in Final Cut Pro. See Displaying Film Information in Final Cut Pro for more information. Manually Entering Database Records The most common reason to manually enter a record into the database is that there is no log available from the film-to-video transfer process. Some film-to-video transfer methods, such as film chains, do not provide logs. Each record in a database should represent a media file that has continuous timecode and key numbers. With scene-and-take transfers, each take requires its own record because film key numbers are skipped when jumping from take to take during the transfer. With camera-roll transfers, because the film roll and video recorder run continuously from start to finish, you require only one record for the entire clip, even if you later break it into smaller clips (that retain the original timecode) and delete the unused portions. This is because Cinema Tools can use an edit's video reel number and edit points to calculate the appropriate key numbers, as long as the video reel and edit point information is part of a record. To manually enter database records, you need to know the key number and video timecode number for a frame of the clip. This is easiest when the transfer has these values burned in to the video. See Creating a Cinema Tools Database for details about creating and managing Cinema Tools databases. Capturing the Source Clips with Final Cut Pro How you capture the source clips with Final Cut Pro depends in large part on the actual media used for the telecine transfer. • If you have a telecine log file and the clips are provided using a tape-based system: In this case, you start by importing the telecine log file into either Cinema Tools or Final Cut Pro. If you import the telecine log file into Cinema Tools, you then export a batch capture list for Final Cut Pro. If you import the telecine log file into Final Cut Pro, you can use the batch capture process to capture the clips. 16 Chapter 1 An Overview of Using Cinema Tools