[Avid-L2] Re: ScriptSync & v5

Hi Oz,

Script sync is very accurate and a real time saver. The difference between this and the Adobe software (I'm assuming that is what you are referring to) is that Avid Script sync doesn't create a transcript, it uses speech recognition to match back an EXISTING transcript to the actual time code of the media. You double click in a word in the body of the transcript and it plays the media in the source monitor window.

It's very useful and saves a lot of time in the edit. However, it would be REALLY valuable as a standalone program that writers, producers and directors to use if it were a standalone product they could use when writing a script. That would be worth the extra bucks. Cable and network docs and reality shows would save a lot of time and money.

But to answer your question, you still need an accurate verbatim transcript.

Tony

PS: Philip Hodgets are you following this thread? If anybody can do this, you can.
Or Wes plate for that matter.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Ozzie A" <ozziea@...> wrote:
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> Tony,
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> I haven't used ScriptSync but a similar program. I used it on a short doc where the people talking were in either noisy room, or spoke with an accent , and/or with a lot of "hums..." and "ahhs..." The client asked for a transcript and (since a transcript was not in the budget) I used a voice recognition program. I was impressed with what it did get right, but most of the transcript ranged from hilarious to unreadable. The humms and ahhs were translated to the nearest possible word. And of course, no punctuation.
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> Was I just using a really inferior product, or is ScriptSync susceptible to the same problems? Things would have been much different if I had shot a scripted scene.
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> Oz
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