cutting together spots, shorts, or features

French translation: Montage

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English term or phrase:cutting together spots, shorts, or features
French translation:Montage

23:01 Aug 31, 2018
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English to French translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: cutting together spots, shorts, or features
Bonjour,
Je dois traduire la phrase suivante : Whether you're cutting together spots, shorts, or features, you push your system to the max. Elle s'adresse à des artistes.
Je ne comprends pas ce que signifie "cutting together spots, shorts, or features". Quelqu'un pourrait-il m'éclairer?
Merci!
Corinne Desauw
Local time: 12:27
Montage
Explanation:
Spots, shorts and features are all types of films or videos (a feature = feature length like a normal movie or documentary; shorts = short films; spots = TV advertisement). Cutting together = combining footage that isn't continuous (for instance, cutting from a long shot to a close-up). "Montage" is the word for the technical process of choosing what footage to use, editing it together so it flows, and combining it with sound--i.e. the technical process of actually putting together a finished film/video. Since it's a noun in French vs. a verb in the source language, you would have to rephrase the sentence when translating.

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Note added at 5 hrs (2018-09-01 05:00:23 GMT)
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PS: As you can see I was just talking about the translation of "cutting together." For spots, shorts and features, you can easily look up the French terms once you know that the context is cinema/TV. Assuming this is European French, you can say "un spot publicitaire" or "une pub" for spot; the others are pretty universally "un court métrage" and "un long métrage."
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Eliza Hall
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Montage


Explanation:
Spots, shorts and features are all types of films or videos (a feature = feature length like a normal movie or documentary; shorts = short films; spots = TV advertisement). Cutting together = combining footage that isn't continuous (for instance, cutting from a long shot to a close-up). "Montage" is the word for the technical process of choosing what footage to use, editing it together so it flows, and combining it with sound--i.e. the technical process of actually putting together a finished film/video. Since it's a noun in French vs. a verb in the source language, you would have to rephrase the sentence when translating.

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Note added at 5 hrs (2018-09-01 05:00:23 GMT)
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PS: As you can see I was just talking about the translation of "cutting together." For spots, shorts and features, you can easily look up the French terms once you know that the context is cinema/TV. Assuming this is European French, you can say "un spot publicitaire" or "une pub" for spot; the others are pretty universally "un court métrage" and "un long métrage."


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Eliza Hall
United States
Local time: 07:27
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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Thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Barbara Carrara: French translation of the posted phrase is missing...
57 mins

agree  FX Fraipont (X)
1 hr

agree  Renvi Ulrich: Excellente référence, Eliza!
1 hr

agree  Tony M: Note that the S/T is really flawed, since one would never say 'cutting together', unless the implication was 'disparate material' (not the case here) 'editing' would have been a clearer term to use! Other terms --> separate questions under rule 2.3.
2 hrs

agree  HERBET Abel: oui
2 hrs
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