I don't know how many of you add comments to clips in the timeline, but I've been doing this for a long time.
At first, when I was doing corporate pieces, I used to add comments to the narration track, just putting the script page number on every clip. Most producers would give you directions by saying, "OK, on page six we want to cover this with the shot of …" And of course, editors really want timecode numbers to find locations, so by being able to jump directly to a "page number" in a script at a moments notice was something that clients recognized. It made me look faster than other editors at a critical point in the PRODUCER's vision of how fast and efficient I was.
Anyway, I also use comments in selects reels for documentaries that are unscripted. I'll break down the interviews into selects reels and use comments in the timeline to identify the location of critical soundbites.
With that done, I would LOVE if there was a way to organize the selects reels, grouping similar comments together in one spot. Right now, I have to go through and create a selects reel of all of the comments about one topic or another. Why not have a self-organizing timeline based on comments?
If the timeline comments appeared in the bin, I suppose you could consolidate the sequence, then sort by comments column and then simply drag that into a timeline, but they don't. The workaround is to subclip every shot in the selects reel, then add the comments in the bin itself, then sort by comment in the bin, then create your organized selects reel from the organized subclips.
Anyway, fantasy feature request: self organizing timelines based on comments.
Posted by: Steve Hullfish <steve@veralith.com>
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