Rough cut

As a rough cut, rough cut, also, the first selection and arrangement of the rotated film material is known. The rough cut yields the first cut version of a movie and is not to be equated with a Director's Cut, as the rough cut is usually still too long and usually no visual effects, music and dubbing includes. However, the result is the first indication of the yet -to-find rhythm. Immediately on the rough cut or rough cut follows the fine cut.

An example of a rough cut, which is available on DVD, even commercially available, is approximately is the Special Edition of the film Alien 3, which was published in the so-called Alien Quadrilogy. Although so far has not been used material with material that had undergone a post-production, mixed up, but the version given a glimpse of the difficult cut process.

• Post-production