Re: How we Do Film Editing?

Hi Mohamed,
There's a pretty elaborate segment about fiml projects in the Avid manuals, I guess you could start there.
Basically, today's common practice is to transfer film negative to standard def videotape for offline editing. During the telecine session, identification codes are logged. The videotapes are captured into an NLE, together with the log. In the end, physical negative conforming or digital intermediate conforms are done based on an EDL and or cutlists plus the logs.
So basically, as an editor you are using the same equipment you are using for video editing. The log files are "extra", and you'll need to understand either PAL or NTSC pulldown for getting 24fps / 23.98fps footage in 50i or 60i environments.
You don't capture straight from film (altough Avid's Media Station in combination with a telecine could do this).