This will surely be of use to someone else, so I will share a trick we did for a project:
For large events covered by many media outlets we typically acquire stock from a bunch of sources. In this case it was a health care 'summit' hosted by President Obama in early 2009.
Footage captured (10:1m), transcript in this case provided for free (I think at whitehouse.gov). Footage is generally cuts cams and a few various alternate angles, total of nine sources. Master clips were grouped by inpoint (using a hard 's' sound from the POTUS).
Key step: load group clip into preview monitor and make sure that the active camera has the full event, audio and video. Remember to use the 'audio follows video' function when switching the active clip in the group.
Open transcript in Avid. Select the full spoken section of the transcript. Drag and drop your group clip from the bin onto the transcript. From menu select 'Sript/Scriptsync.'
You can now use the script to locate a particular point during a massive event, switch into multicam mode (command+shift+M) and see every camera angle you have for this moment. Also useful for cutting large chunks of material into timeline for 'paper cutting' content, then return to fine tune without having to track down a bunch of master clips/timecodes/transcripts.
It seems like this could have some use outside of political documentaries...
-Chad Ervin
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