Re: [Avid-L2] Re: ScriptSync & v5

Once you've seen ScriptSync at work you'd be hard pressed not to be an
immediate convert. The difficulty, at least for me, is getting a transcript
in the first place. Sadly most of the work I do has no budget for
transcripts, what I usually get it a very broad paraphrased "transcription"
that is often more frustrating than anything else. I'll try to make sure
that all our suites retain the ScriptSync functionality on the off chance
that we'll finally get a chance to use it properly, but I can certainly see
Avid's conundrum.

I guess it's a lesson about being reliant on tools or technologies outside
your control.

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:26 PM, johnrobmoore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

>
>
> Script sync doesn't involve voice recognition. It uses a transcript that is
> usually done by a service and matches it phonetically to the actual sound
> waveforms on the media. I think my work around once I'd have to pay for the
> next update to maintain SS would be to do it in an older version and bring
> the scripts into the newer system.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>, "Ozzie A"
> <ozziea@...> wrote:
> >
> > Tony,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Oz
> >
>
>
>

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