Appendix PREPARING FOR LINEAR ONLINE 343 you include extra frames in the video (that pesky 25th frame). The PAL Method 1 is for film projects in which video and audio are transferred together at 25 fps. PAL Method 2 is for when video and audio are captured separately and synced in Avid. If you have a video project without any matching back to film, then choose plain vanilla video PAL. Matchback and 24-fps EDLs Matchback is a method preferred by low-budget films or film projects that are primarily for video distribution, but will be projected sometime in the future. This is an option that will out- put a 30- or 25-fps project as a 24-fps cut list. Film transfer to video adds extra frames. There is no way for the video-based project to keep track of the A frame, so every outpoint in a match- back project can be accurate only to plus or minus a video frame in NTSC. The matchback is much more accurate in PAL. For many people, depending on the material, this is quite acceptable compared to the cost of conforming a negative first and then transferring to video or using a film composer. They get a video