VERY VERY simple. . .

[Jeff Carpenter]

“Master” can refer to many things, all them meaning “Final Version.” So you could have a master tape, meaning the totally finished project, or simply a master timeline which would be the project that all your elements are being combined in.

“Daily” is an old film term. You used to shoot all day, and hopefully you’d have people working overnight to process the film for you. The next morning you could see what you shot the day before. Those were the “dailies.” I suppose that these days it’s fine to refer to the video tapes you’ve shot that day as the dalies. If a video person uses the term I’d assume that’s what they mean by it.

I was never a film person, so if someone else has a better description than that, please enlighten me. That’s how I’ve always understood it, though.

[Bob Delano]

In the telecine world, “Dailies” are a quick transfer with the telecine set to a base color correction. The entire collection of film footage is run through to the format of your choice. After the edit is done, the final “selects” trasfer is done… the exacting scene by scene process of color correction by the colorist of the final material to be used in the project. The project is then reassembled from the selects material in its final master format.

Editor Bob
Charlotte, NC

[Blub06]

Speaking as a former narrative feature film person, Dailies is, as has been mentioned, yesterdays footage developed and printed from selects. The term rushes is the same as dailies. Rushes because it was considered quick turn around to get to screen the footage only one day after shooting them.

Dailies in the film biz in some cases has turned into a party, which screws the whole point of dailies up. When a steel company makes its daily run of steel there is a room they take a small selection of that steel into and inspect it. For the shooting of a narrative film screening dailies is that same small room.

Chris

[Frank Nolan]

[thewanggao] ”
“When the revolution happens, I’ll be leading it.””

In that case YOU would be the master!