User Manual

Transferring Film to Tape
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Film-to-Tape Transfer Guidelines
Observe the following general guidelines when transferring film to tape:
• Instruct the telecine facility to record timecode on the address track.
• Instruct the facility to use only a telecine transfer process when transferring to NTSC
videotape. Do not use a film chain or any other transfer device.
• PAL transfers do not require pulldown, so you can use either a telecine or a film chain.
However, quality is much better on a telecine.
• Transfer all of the project’s source film footage to disk or tape by using either the NTSC or
PAL method.
- For NTSC projects, you can mix footage transferred at 24 fps (23.976 fps) or 30 fps
(29.97 fps), and mix sound transferred at 1.0 or 0.99. Do not mix 24-fps and 30-fps
transfers on the same transfer tape.
- For PAL projects, you cannot mix audio that has been transferred at 4.1 percent speedup
(PAL Method 1) with audio that has not been sped up (PAL Method 2).
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PAL film-to-tape transfers that use pulldown are not currently supported in Avid editing
applications.
Project
Format Source footage During the telecine process
SD 24 fps To create ITU-R 601 video, the telecine process adds 2:3
pulldown to film footage to create an NTSC videotape, or uses
4.1% speedup for PAL videotape.
25 fps The telecine process transfers 25-fps film footage at 1:1 (no
pulldown).
The sound recording can be synchronized as part of the telecine
transfer.
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For NTSC output, this method slows the audio by 4
percent. If you plan to output to both NTSC and PAL, you
might want to shoot at 24 fps and use 24p instead of 25p.
23.976 fps The telecine process syncs audio and transfers film footage at 1:1
(no pulldown).