rough cut
nounEtymology From the early days of filmmaking when film stock was physically cut and reassembled.
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Broadcasting, Film, Media, Television 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.
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A poor quality reproduction of an illustration in a printed work.
- In this small quarto volume the illustrations are rough cuts.1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 10: