rough cut

English

Etymology

From the early days of filmmaking when film stock was physically cut and reassembled.

Noun

rough cut (plural rough cuts)

  1. (film) 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.
    Coordinate term: fine cut
  2. A poor quality reproduction of an illustration in a printed work.
    • 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 10:
      In this small quarto volume the illustrations are rough cuts.
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