Cinema Tools is a software program for filmmakers, to use in conjunction with Final Cut Pro. It facilitates the creation of an integrated film database, allowing the management of film material through telecine.
Cinema Tools is software bundled with Final Cut Studio that combines film database tools with conversion tools. It is used to log and keep track of film as well as to reverse telecine or perform advanced pulldown from standard 30 frames per second to 24 frames per second. Since NTSC standards are 29.97 frame/s (frames per second), digital formats must be recorded via telecine to NTSC standard from the 24 frame/s source. Cinema Tools pulls out the redundant frames and/or fields associated with the footage and converts it back to its native 24p format.
The application was developed by Loren Kary and originally released as FilmLogic[1] before being purchased by Apple. The application was released by Apple in 2002 as a stand-alone product [1]. It was then included as part of version 4 of Final Cut Pro (see press release).
The KODAK Cinema Tools App, provides essential film making tools for filmmakers that use celluloid film in their projects. The app features a film calculator and a depth of field calculator designed to simplify ongoing arithmetic. Additionally, the app provides access to an online contact directory and a list of labs to get film processed.
We are delighted to have released the first batch of calculators for beta test. We hope that you find it enjoyable and time saving using the tools and that you can help us by letting others know that they are now available for them to use as well. One particular feature that will continue to develop is the projector location calculator database, just let us know if the model that you require is not featured and we will investigate if the reliable data we need for the calculations is available.
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We have a workflow that involves transcoding 1080p from 23.98 AVCHD to ProRes 422 and then using Cinema Tools to conform to 25fps. 50% of the time it works fine, 50% of the time the audio runs out of sync with the video after the conform.
FWIW the workaround is simple but still a chore. I export the audio from the 23.98 version, note the exact duration of the 25fps version, and then use Audacity to speed up the 23.98 audio to match (with pitch change). Then I just paste it back onto the 25fps version in QT Player 7.
I am having the same problem with the out of sync audio
For me I am going from 25 to 24fps in cinema tools.
Alright, I put the h264 video codec file into compressor and converted it using app pro res 422
It looked great and everythings good.
Than I open cinema tools opened the clip the conform button was available to push. I conformed it to 24fps from 25
Double system is where sound is recorded separately and synced. What you are doing requires that the sound is processed seperately and slowed down 4% with the pitch maintained. To do this you need to find a facility with MPEX3, Pitch N Time or iZotope software which can lengthen but keep correct pitch.
So Cinema Tools with the video and separate process on the sound. Yes it will make it slower and the duration will change.If that is OK then make the DVD after converting the video and audio in Compressor to m2v and ac3.
If you need the same duration, then convert the frame rate in Compressor. Software standards conversions are not fantastic and they take a long time. Turn frame controls on and change the frame rate, set rezise to best. This is an alternate approach that maintains duration and pitch.
i've seen similar questions but nothing this subtle, such a slight change. also, nothing i've tried so far has proved reliable for this whereas using cinema tools has always been reliable (i'll explain below). all i need to do is change a video's framerate from 23.976fps to 24fps. cinema tools does this by simply changing something(s) in the file header so the change does not require making a new file or more than a second, even for large files. is there an ffmpeg way of doing this?
for anyone interested, i'm making dcp files from quicktime mov files. the dcp process requires 24fps material. when i make conversions of 23.976fps material and extract the audio to put it into opendcp, the dcp-making software i like, the audio always shows an incorrect length. this does not happen if i work directly from 24fps files. for that reason and, having used cinema tools in the past for these conversions (no longer available to me now), i want to simply conform all of my 23.976fps files to 24fps and do so without doubling my disk space and time consumed.
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I wonder if i do it right , i first make the 50pclip 25p in cinema tools an then i trensfer it to XDcamHD25p but when i open the clips in FCP it has to render them , even if i change the settings to the right sequance settings .
Thank you Phyl for that tutorial, that was something I needed to know about recording in slow motion. However, after I record a demo in 720p 60p on the hvx200 at normal speed, when I reduced it in cinema tool to 30 frames the sound is warped like playing a 45 record at 33 speed. Is there any way this could be corrected so that it sound normal when the video is playing.
What kind of adjustment can be made to this to correct it.
Hi Philip, I hope we can see you in Spain soon. One cuestion. In the presentation at the London FCPUG about Canon 5D workflow, when you made and example of using cinematools for changing fps to a clip from 30 to 24, I see that the original clip was in ProRess. You know that original compresion on the 5D is H.264. So the question is this: if you wanna use cinematools as an option for convertion fps, at first you have to convert from H.264 to ProRess, and them make the fps down? When I try to make the fps convertion from original video of 5D (H.264-30fps) to 25 fps, the conform buttom is disabled in Cinematools. Another thing; if for using cinematools you have to make first a conversion of compressor (from h264 to ProRes) and after this, the fps conversion (from 30 to 25), I think that two times converting are too much times.
Congratulations for your teaching work. I hope youll be in the spanish Broadcast show in november giving us a masterclass.
(sorry for my english)
Sorry Philip, but all the native clips in H.264 that I open in cinema tools, after make analysis, the compressor field is empty, and the conform buttom is unable. This is my first time I use cinema tools, and I very lost in this program. one question, Is posible that I have to say to the program that the H.264 is ready for use in any place of settings, or something like this? the same buttom of preferences is also unable.
Gracias