Re: [Avid-L2] Scriptsync + Group Clip

Thanks for the tip.

Agustin Goya
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On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:06 PM, chad_ervin01
<chad.ervin@welltoldfilms.com>wrote:

>
>
> Hi L2'ers,
>
> 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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