how are VFX added to movies shot on film?

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I’m not really sure how the shoot a movie on film then proceed to edit it / add visual effects and then release it.

Digitally, for unprofessional people like me, we just take out the SD card, plug it into the computer, import the file into the software, do whatever then render it.

When its shot on film, I don’t get how they do all of that

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You scan the film, so that you have an image of each frame. Then you compute your VFX to line up with the pixels in the frames. Then you print your VFX onto film. Then you can use multi-frame printing to get film for the scene. Or you do the composition digitally and print new frames.

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