From the course: Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing
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Syncing a script using ScriptSync - Media Composer Tutorial
From the course: Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing
Syncing a script using ScriptSync
Once you've gone through the steps in setting up your script for entering into Media Composer, it's time to bring it in and then sync it to the associated Master clips. So I just go to File > New Script and then in the Transcripts formatted folder I've gone through, and I've prepared and made them all Plain Text documents so that you can bring those in. So I'm just going to click BD interview.txt, and I'll click Open, and here it comes into the software. And you can see this is just a 30-minute interview, and we're going to sync our master clips to this using ScriptSync. So here I have six interview selects, and I've basically gone through and chosen the parts of the interview that I felt would work best for the documentary. So what you need to do is actually find the moments in the script that match with these Master clips. I'm just going to load this into the Source Monitor and play it so that I know what part of the script this covers. (BD Dautch: My name is BD Dautch.) All right…
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