Production Terminology for Film Workflows Only
The shootlist is a document in which the camera assistant records each scene and take relative to its keycode value on the film stock. It is later used by the telecine operator to synchronize the audio and video together.
The sound log is a document in which the production sound mixer records each scene and take relative to its beginning timecode position.
The slate operator holds and labels the slate (also known as a clapboard) for each new scene and take. At the start of each take, the slate operator claps the slate, which simultaneously captures the following information:
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The scene, take, and timecode information is captured visually on film.
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The sound of the slate clapping is captured by the field recorder, which should be using the same timecode as displayed on the slate.
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The telecine operator uses all of the information above to synchronize used film stock to the recorded audio in order to create the telecine videotape.
The Telecine is a machine used to transfer film footage and synchronized audio to videotape (referred to as the dailies).
The telecine videotape contains the dailies. The SMPTE timecode on the telecine videotape will be different from the timecode recorded on location.
The FLEx file is a text file generated during a telecine session that relates film keycode, field recorder timecode, and telecine videotape timecode. When the telecine videotape is batch digitized in the Avid video editing application, the information in the FLEx file is used to assign the original (location) timecode to the resulting audio and video source files.