John sounds right to me. I had heard mostly of workprints always, too.

On Oct 22, 2017 5:44 PM, "Jeff Kreines" <j...@kinetta.com> wrote:

> I’m surprised that no one has mentioned workprint.  Most films were
> edited using workprints, a print off the uncut negative — and once that
> was “locked” the negative was conformed.  While some did edit original
> negatives, it was usually for speed — done in the early newsreel days,
> and in early TV news when they shot negative and inverted the polarity for
> broadcast.
>
> You can also have the negative transferred to digital files with the edge
> numbers in a “flex” file that some editing programs can use, but this
> gets more complex than you will want.
>
> Jeff Kreines
> Kinetta
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