VFX for Film

[Michael Phillips]

You create negative cutlists (optical cultists) and they get created either in the lab or scanned to digitally scanned for digital creation.

Michael

[Eric Sharon]

Michael,
Thank you very much, once again. But what if I use certain plugins in AE (Allegorithmic for example), how will they be recreeated in lab?
Thanks,
Eric.

[Michael Phillips]

At this point, it would need to be eye-matched, the optical list would generate the pull list for the scanner, the FX house would recreate the FX shot digitally using the same plug-in or similar.

[Eric Sharon]

And what exactly optical list is and how do I generate it? I will have EDL, but what is optical list?

[Michael Phillips]

Your clips need to be logged with camera roll and KeyKode, this would be done for you already if you imported an ALE file or FLEx file from the transfer.

Then you use FilmScribe to generate all the lists you need for negative cutting, FX, etc. See the FilmScribe HTML output version for an example of these lists from a film I just completed:

https://www.24p.com/cutlists/Assemble.htm

Michael

[Eric Sharon]

Michael,
Thank you very much.
Eric.