Internegative

In film production, an internegative or intermediate negative is a duplicate negative that is used to make film copies .

The internegative is usually made from an interpositive either as an optical copy or as a contact copy . The interpositive, in turn, comes as an optical copy or as a contact copy from the camera negative (original negative ).

Alternatively, the internegative can be produced by a digital intermediate via exposure.

In order to skip a generation of copies , an internegative can also be created directly from the camera negative as a so-called Color Reversal Intermediate (CRI) bypassing an interpositive . In this case, however, one usually speaks of a duplicate negative.

See also: Intermediate negative