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Not to be confused with sync marks. Cinch marks are small vertical scratches on a roll of film that are caused when the end of the film is pulled to

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A type of lighting fixture designed to hold a screwin light bulb, with a notsodependable spring clamp for mounting on the side of an open door, etc.

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Clapper or Clapstick

The Slate, or just the two sticks that are struck together to mark a sync sound take.

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axial Magazine A type of magazine with two chambers side by side, with the supply and take up rolls rather like wheels mounted on either end of the s

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Inkedon edge numbers, usually added to a workprint and mag track after syncing, so that corresponding sound and picture can always be properly aligne

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Color Temperature

It is a measurement of the color of light, and important in that film is much more sensitive to color temperature than our eyes are. Is measured on s

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The Timer of a video transfer.

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Progressive versions of a film in the editing stage are known as conformations, often identified by date. Conformations are only of any significance

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The word to describe the negative cutter’s matching of the original to the workprint.

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Contact Printing

The method used by the lab to copy film. A contact print is made on a machine called (sensibly enough) a Contact Printer, in which the original film

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The seamlessness of detail from one shot to another within a scene. Continuity refers particularly to the physical elements, rather than to the choic

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A fancier way of saying Gobo or Cookie.

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A flat board, like a flag, but full of irregular holes used for creating a pattern of shadows when put in front of a light.

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A plastic hub used to hold film without a reel. There are 2 inch cores (small cores) and 3 inch cores (large cores). 2 inch cores can also be called

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Corrected Print

Same as a Timed Print.

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Further changes in the timing of a print are known as corrections.

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Coverage is used to describe the architecture of breaking down a script into the shots that will allow the scene to be cut together. Although coverag

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What to label your film can when turning it in at the lab when the roll ran out during a very important shot and you want to make sure you get every

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Cross Modulation Test

Sometimes called “cross mod” for short. This is a test the Mixing House will do in conjunction with the lab you plan to use to make sure the optical

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Cross Processing

A technique used much more by still photographers. Cross processing is the use of color reversal film stock to be developed as a negative. A positive

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Specifically, a way of recording Sync Sound where the camera runs at correct speed with a quartz crystalgoverned motor, and tape recorder records its

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A road map, of sorts, for the mixer to find the sounds on your tracks during the mix. It is laid out as a grid with each track forming a column and t

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1.: What the director says to end the filming of a shot. 2.: The cutting apart of 2 shots at the frameline, or the point where the shots have been cu

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A shot, usually a closeup of some detail, or landscape, that is used break up a matching action sequence, and is often very helpful in editing to res

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The workprint, before it has been edited, so called because the minority of labs will have it ready later the same day it was dropped off (if you are

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Daylight Balanced

The color temperature of daylight which is 5,400K on the color temperature scale (it does vary during the day, being higher at noon and lower in the

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An aluminum spool holding 100 feet of film with solid, opaque sides, painted black, which will protect the film from becoming completely exposed when

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While a lens focuses on a single plane of depth, there is usually an additional area in focus behind and in front of that plane. This is depth of fie

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1.: A filter used on the camera to create a soft focus effect. 2.: A white or pearlecent sheet of material used on a movie light to soften the shadow

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The diopter is part of the viewfinding system of a camera that can be adjusted to compensate for your own particular eyesight, allowing you to see th

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A transition between two shots, where one shot fades away and simultaneously another shot fades in. Dissolves are done at the lab in the printing pha

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A dolly shot is one where the camera is placed on a dolly and is moved while filmming. Also known as a tracking shot.

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Double Exposure

A double exposure occurs when (prior to development) an exposed piece of film is reshot with a second image on top of the first. Several exposures ca

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16mm film with a row of perforations running along both edges. On the film can this will be indicated by 2R appearing on the label.

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In 35mm a double reel is 2 single reels joined together, the maximum size being 2,000 feet. Double reels are labeled 1 A/B, 2 A/B etc., to distinguis

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The term double system refers to sound and picture as two separate elements, recorded, edited or projected in sync. 16mm and 35mm use the double syst

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Double System Projector

A projector designed to project a workprint and play a mag track in sync.

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The recording of dialogue in a sound studio, after the footage is shot, where the actors watch the film and match the lip movements.

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A dupe is a positive copy of a positive. A dupe can also be a negative copy of a negative. A dupe is a print made in the reversal process. It can som

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A composition with the camera viewing the scene at a diagonal. Same as a canted angle. Some nice examples can be seen in Carol Reed’s “The Third Man.

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E.C.N. stands for Eastman Color Negative. It is simply your developed negative.

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E.D.L. stands for Edit Decision List. It is used by the negative cutter when you have cut digitally, in order to conform the original without the usu

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Abbreviation for Exposure Index.

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Abbreviation for Editorial Sync.

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Exposure along the edge of the film from raw light, in most cases from a lightleak, due to the camera door not being taped. Edge Fog can sometimes be

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Edge Numbers or Latent Edge Numbers

1.: The edge numbers are small numbers running along the edge of the film, in between the perf in 16mm, and just to the far side of them in 35mm. The

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1.: The cutting and arranging of shots. 2.: In the different stages, or at the completion of editing the edited film itself can be referred to as “th

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A workbench with rewinds attached, and sometimes a builtin light table in the center.

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