THE F O C A L E A S Y GUID E TO FINAL C UT PRO 7 DV Start/Stop Detection Back in the old days the film editor would take the workprint when it returned from the lab and cut it into pieces. These pieces were individual shots or sequences of film. The problem with having a huge amount of film on a reel, which had not been broken down into shots, was that it was unwieldy and time- consuming to work with. Imagine if the editor of 40 years ago had a machine that would do that part of the process for them. Well you do have it. Inside of Final Cut Pro is a remarkable feature that will break up long captured DV clips into individual shots. Each time the Record button is pressed on a DV camera a reference is recorded to tape ­ another reference is then recorded to tape when the recording stops. Final Cut Pro recognizes this recorded reference and once footage has been captured you can run your footage through what is called Scene Detection. Effectively, Scene Detection scans through your DV footage and breaks it up into individual shots.