Apple Cinema Tools 4 User Manual

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New Features in Cinema Tools 4

This version of Cinema Tools includes a number of new features and enhancements that make it easier than ever to generate film lists, including extensive customization capabilities and more detailed optical lists. Additionally, there is an improved user interface that streamlines the database management process.

The most significant of these new features are introduced below. All of these features are fully documented in the Cinema Tools User Manual, available from the Help menu.

An Improved User Interface

Cinema Tools 4 introduces an improved user interface that helps streamline the film database management process.

List View Window

The List View window now includes a Show All button as well as the Find button that used to be in the Detail View window.

Use the Show All button to quickly show all database records.

Use the Find button to show only the records you need.

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Apple Cinema Tools 4 User Manual

Detail View Window

The Detail View window has been reorganized to make entering and viewing information easier.

Telecine session information is now easier to see.

A tooltip shows a clip’s location, which is useful when a clip is missing.

Clip Window

The Clip window now includes two panes that used to be separate windows—Identify and Analysis—reducing clutter on your desktop and making it easier to get at detailed clip information. The Clip window also now includes Previous Clip and Next Clip buttons, making it easy to jump from one clip to the next in the List View records.

Click the Identify button to verify and enter clip information in a database.

Click the Analysis button to see clip file and format details.

Click the Previous Clip and Next Clip buttons to jump from one clip to the next.

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