-
Quality, speed and sanity
Odd job in the pipeline……….
1000 discrete clips, 10 second duration, single headshot to camera, unique content for each (one or two words in the script change each time)
Could shoot 1000 (+bad takes) small clips at the outset or as longer files with multiple takes per file (100+).
All will need top and tailing for duration, renaming & encoding for delivery.
Is there some way to automate some of the process? Lots of work, but very heavy on repetition. Leaves us open to small mistakes creeping in that would likely hurt to go back, hunt out and fix.
Any wisdom out there on how to better get through this with our sanity intact? FCP, CS4 etc. as software. Doing the job isn’t technically difficult for us, the volume of clips is a challenge.
Thanks
Gav
The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production – Brisbane Australia. -
4 Replies
-
-
CS 4 Premiere Pro speech to text might help.
Whenever you are dealing with lots of clips, it is going to take a fair amount of time.
The other alternative is to hire a PA to do the tedious work.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Thanks John – traffic might help with some of the project wide tweaks.
Steve – I’m not 100% sure what you mean with speach to text helping – could you explain when you have a minute?
The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production – Brisbane Australia. -
speech-to-text is a new feature inside of Premiere Pro CS4.
It takes dialog from your video and transcribes it to text which you can then copy and paste into a word document or whatever.
There are a number of variables to the accuracy of the transcription. Obviously a good audio source is #1. If you have ambient noise or music going in the background that will affect the quality.
However, even if you get 50% accuracy, that’s 50% you don’t have to type up!
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up