Appendix 1

When Shooting on Film
If you did not sync in telecine, you will need to sync at this point. If you need information on transferring
audio and pulling the audio down, refer to Chapter 7 on audio workfl ow.
You will now want to return to your Cinema Tools database and link your video to the database.
Select: Database > Connect Clips and select one clip from your Final Cut Pro capture folder.
Verify the accuracy of the clips by clicking on Open clip, as shown in Figure 1.7. This opens the
clip in a playable window with options. If you are fi nishing on fi lm or 24P, click on the Identify
button.
Figure 1.7 Detail view in Cinema Tools with captured video linked to the database
This opens a window with time codes and key code information. Check that the time code and edge
codes match your burn windows. If not, edit in the right information. Always trust the burn
windows.
In the key code window burn, the fi rst frame of each shot should be a complete A frame, and so the
time code in the window burn should end in 0 or 5. If the numbers in the database don’t match the
windows, this error can be corrected here in Cinema Tools. The window burn should be correct;
reenter the numbers in the database to match the window burn. Such errors are rare, but they do
happen.
Notice in the example shown in Figure 1.8 that the slate shows a different time code from the audio
time code window burn (upper left window). The window is displaying the time code from the
audiotapes. This can be off because the two time code generators used in production—the one in the
slate and the one in the audio recorder—were drifting and had not been “jammed” in several hours.
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