ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a review of the traditional film procedure of receiving, syncing, and preparing dailies for the picture editor to commence the creative process of editorial storytelling. The film arrives, and the picture assistant and apprentice swing into action, racing to sync up all daily footage in time for that evening's screening. Professional picture editorial departments always build the daily rolls starting with the smallest scene number and building out to the largest. When using fullcoat as a sound stock medium, picture editorial can use up to six channels on a piece of film. Different picture assistants use their own combinations of color-coded painted leader, but the most common combinations are yellow-painted leader for picture and red-painted leader for sound. The sound is either transferred from a magnetic medium or a digital tape, or in most cases, are already in individual audio form formats when working with hard disc digital audio recorders.
