Re: New blog post from Philip Hodgetts. Worth the read.

[Jeremy Garchow] "With Audition clips, you could have everything sorted, or sorted by rating"

Then every clip in the timeline for an edited scene would have to be an audition clip.

[Jeremy Garchow] "Load info? Meaning footage? Metadata? All of the above?"

All of the above.

[Jeremy Garchow] "What if in order to meet this deadline, it had to be? If people want to move faster, they better use the tools to do so."

Then that means imposing a rather inflexible and closed method of organization that not everyone agrees is better nor that they want.

[Jeremy Garchow] "OK, so does it come in edited by scene with all the clips stacked in a timeline? Or do you have to still go through and organize those clips?"

When an XML or ALE file is used, that gives you clip name, scene/take, synced audio, TC, reel number, etc. You can certainly organize as you want, but there's no speed lost to manual data entry. The trouble with relying on this based on electronic data entry on location, is that invariably it's wrong. I frequently get P2 clips where the clip long name is incorrect, because the operator never set it right on the shoot. Or it was never updated after Day 1 of a shoot. The less you expect the crew to do the better off you are as an editor. They have their hands full and cameras like RED have made that exponentially worse.

[Jeremy Garchow] "Similar to soundbite, sorta kinda, but without the in app text and direct interaction. yes, ScriptSync is proprietary, so if you want to use it, you have to use Avid."

Not really similar to SoundBite at all. SB is like PhraseFind. It's a search tool. SB, PF and SS are all based on Nexidia's dialogue search engine. The script-based editing part of Avid has been in Media Composer for years and doesn't require Nexidia's proprietary engine. The paid option part of it, makes the dialogue analysis and sync-to-text automatic, but it can be done manually by the editor or assistant. But yes, script-based editing is only available on Avids because it's IP they own based on acquiring IP from Cinedco. The lined-script editing concept dates back to EdiFlex (Cinedco) in the late-80s/early-90s.

- Oliver

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