ABSTRACT
The scissors, magnifying glass, and banana oil film cement with its ubiquitous aroma that entranced the senses of filmmakers from the earliest eras gave way to a wider array of instruments, including splicing blocks, trim tabs, grease pencils, and the world's first editing machine. Matchback is the term for film dailies that are transferred to video and then conformed back to film after they are edited. By tracking timecode and key numbers, the nonlinear editing system can create and edit decision list for matching the video edits back to the original film negative. In some cases, the common film nomenclature has become corrupted, so a term that had a particular meaning in the film world has come to mean something different in the digital nonlinear world. To make a simple edit in Avid, the selected take is loaded into the Source monitor either by dragging or double-clicking the frame representing that takes in the bin.
