rough cut

noun

Etymology

From the early days of filmmaking when film stock was physically cut and reassembled.

Definitions

  1. The second of three stages of offline editing of a film, recognizable as a conventional…

    The second of three stages of offline editing of a film, recognizable as a conventional film but having notable defects such as incomplete narrative flow and missing visual or sound effects.

  2. A poor quality reproduction of an illustration in a printed work.

    • In this small quarto volume the illustrations are rough cuts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rough cut. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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