The first version of a film after preliminary editing.
‘it was a long time before she could convince a producer to trust her, even with a rough cut’
‘we have had a rough-cut screening that was a disaster’
‘The film, which was submitted to Sundance at the rough-cut stage, was not accepted.’
‘Also included are nine deleted scenes, which are thankfully not presented in rough-cut footage form.’
‘I want to see the completed film, not the rough cut sent to me by the cinematographer.’
‘It wrote that ‘judging from a rough cut of the film, this wonderfully acted ensemble piece may be the best fiction film about post-9/11 life to appear on screens’.’
‘The rough cut of the film showed the president of the United States almost killed in a car wreck, then reborn as a crypto-fascist who makes violent changes in the country.’
‘Charlie viewed a rough cut of the film early on and was seriously freaked out by the uncompromising nature of the film!’
‘The Cannes version was a rough cut, or at least that's what Gallo says now.’
‘She was disappointed with many of the attempts to translate her stories to the screen, but having been invited to view a rough cut of this version, she reported herself delighted.’
‘That guy in Texas could bag your movie based on a rough cut of the film that we spent millions to make and market.’
‘Benjamin admitted that mistakes had been made, especially in the handling of the press release after viewing Preminger's rough cut of the film in Los Angeles.’
‘A screening of the rough cut was being shown in Boston, and 9 other cities, May 5th.’
‘It is understood the board viewed two different rough cuts of the film at the beginning of last month.’
‘There are a select few who have actually been allowed to see a rough cut of the film.’
‘According to published reports, Jett felt she was underrepresented in the film when she saw a near finished rough cut.’
‘Every minute of the footage is processed as a digital signal and put together into a rough cut at the sophisticated editing suites using state-of-the art editing software.’
‘When I got home that evening I watched a rough cut of the bootcamp video that they had given out.’
‘‘To my utter amazement, after he'd seen some of the rough cuts he jumped on board - and then worked for free on all the sound design,’ he reported.’
‘At the end of shooting, back in New York, we watch rough cuts with missing but still needed voice over.’
‘A rough cut of the documentary Alex is making about her father's failed 1988 campaign gets a frosty reception at a downtown indie-film festival.’
‘He was kind enough to send me a rough cut of the documentary that he was working on at the time.’
verb
[with object]
Cut (something) rapidly and without particular attention to quality or accuracy.
‘it would be best to rough-cut the boards to size with a portable saw’
‘The book describes cutting and rounding the log, drawing the design, rough-cutting the figure, carving the add-on pieces, rounding figures and carving faces.’
‘It can be used on some dry-clean only fabrics if they're first rough-cut allowing enough excess fabric that the shrinkage incurred won't affect cutting the final pattern piece.’
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