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Translation glossary: Film terms

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Cinch MarksNot 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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Clamp LightA 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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Clap Boardsee The Slate. 
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Clapper or ClapstickThe Slate, or just the two sticks that are struck together to mark a sync sound take. 
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Coaxial 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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Code NumbersInkedon 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 TemperatureIt 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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ColoristThe Timer of a video transfer. 
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ConformationsProgressive 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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ConformingThe word to describe the negative cutter’s matching of the original to the workprint. 
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Contact PrintingThe 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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ContinuityThe 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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CoocolorisA fancier way of saying Gobo or Cookie. 
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CookieA 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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CoreA 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 PrintSame as a Timed Print. 
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CorrectionsFurther changes in the timing of a print are known as corrections. 
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CoverageCoverage 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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Critical End!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 TestSometimes 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 ProcessingA 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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Crystal SyncSpecifically, 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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Cue SheetsA 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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Cut1.: 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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CutawayA 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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DailiesThe 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 BalancedThe 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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Daylight SpoolAn 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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Depth of FieldWhile 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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Diffusion1.: 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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DiopterThe 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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DissolveA 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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Dolly ShotA 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 ExposureA 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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Double Perf16mm 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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Double ReelIn 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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Double SystemThe 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 ProjectorA projector designed to project a workprint and play a mag track in sync. 
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DubbingThe 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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DupeA 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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Dutch TiltA 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.E.C.N. stands for Eastman Color Negative. It is simply your developed negative. 
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E.D.L.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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E.I.Abbreviation for Exposure Index. 
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E.S.Abbreviation for Editorial Sync. 
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Edge FogExposure 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 Numbers1.: 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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Edit1.: 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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Editing BenchA workbench with rewinds attached, and sometimes a builtin light table in the center. 
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Editing Binsee Trim Bin. 
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