Digital internegatives
From The Glossary of Digital Photography
A digital master image made from the original negative used in creating a motion picture. Each film frame is scanned at a very high resolution so that, after retouching, modification, or manipulation, a new film negative can be created with very little or no loss of quality. Each frame is saved, usually in an uncompressed format such as TIFF or a specialized format developed for the motion picture industry. Digital internegatives are also sometimes called digital film in the motion picture business. It is different from digital video, DVD, or even digital cinema, which are all lower-quality formats because they are compressed and related to the quality of the theatrical release print that is lower in quality than the original film negative.
