The term telecine refers both to a film-to-tape transferring machine, as well as the process by which film is transferred to tape (or directly to a digital file). The telecine process is frequently used by filmmakers to transfer production footage to video, which can then be captured by various non-linear digital editing systems (e.g.,

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, Avid, etc.).

Piracy

The term may also refer to a form of copying of movies (normally without authorization from the copyright holder) created using a

telecine Telecine ( or ) is the process of transferring film into video and is performed in a color suite. The term is also used to refer to the equipment used in the post-production process. Telecine enables a motion picture, captured originally on f ...

machine, as opposed to recording the projected image with a video camera (the camera method with a direct audio source is called a tele''sync''). Since this process requires both access to a print of the movie on film and expensive equipment, telecine bootlegs are less common than camera bootlegs. The term is also often seen used as in the naming of bootleg movie releases. Lists recent video releases in the

warez scene The Warez scene, often referred to as The Scene, is a worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups specializing in obtaining and illegally releasing digital media for free before their official sale date. The Scene distributes all fo ...

. A naming scheme would look something like this: Movie.title.year-of-production.TELECINE.

Codec A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal. ''Codec'' is a portmanteau of coder/decoder. In electronic communications, an endec is a device that acts as both an encoder and a decoder on a signal or da ...

- Groupname. Alternatively some groups simply use the TC tag instead.

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showing the usage of the TC tag in the

scene Scene (from Ancient Greek, Greek σκηνή ''skēnḗ'') may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music *Scene (subculture), a youth subculture from the early 2000s characterized by a distinct music and style. Groups and performers * The S ...

. The quality of a good telecine is generally comparable to a

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without any post-processing. This has motivated movie studios to develop countermeasures, such as

Coded Anti-Piracy Coded anti-piracy (CAP) is an anti-copyright infringement technology which marks each film print of a motion picture with a distinguishing pattern of dots, used as a forensic identifier to identify the source of illegal copies. They are not to b ...

(CAP) to track the source of telecine copies in the hope of identifying the person responsible for the copy.

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