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Generate sequence from transcript
<pre data-removefontsize=”true” data-originalcomputedfontsize=”16″>Is there a way to take a transcript of imported media, make “paper edits” on the transcript (select lines, reorder, etc.), then export an EDL or AAF that I can import into Media Composer to automatically create a sequence reflecting those edits.
I tried making an .edl and .aaf but they don’t relink to my original media even if the source file name and tapeid are the same.
I saw there’s a software simonsaysai that claims they can do this but I’ve had no luck besides markers. This would be great to make paper edits and have the sequences already built. -
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It’s an interesting idea. I’m curious as to how you made your edl. Did you painstainkingly go though each clip and type up the inpoint and outpoint, and create all the other columns manually?
Where did you get your outpoints from? Unless your transcription does a timecode for each word, you would have to figure out the outpoint manually wouldn’t you?
It sounds like it would be much easier and quicker to import the clip, let avid transcribe it, and then do a transcription based edit. That’s how i do it, and i believe is essentially how simonsays used to work. Most of these 3rd party companies have lost their usefullness with Avid, Premiere and Resolve all doing their own version of assisted editing.
Perhaps your edl would work by using a more detailed relink procedure, using the “different source” options.
Again, interesting idea, but i’m not sure how it would be implemented in a reasonable fashion.
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