Dialogue Editing

A Picture Editing Primer (NTSC Version) 37
More and more fi lms are originating their picture on something other than
fi lm negative. As DV and HD photography becomes more common, negative
cutting will become less a part of the fi lmmaking process. For now you need
to remember that a great deal of picture editing hygiene centers around painless
negative cutting.
Organizing the Material
Before beginning to break up the long (up to an hour) digitized dailies rolls
into individual scenes and takes, the assistant will check one more time that
the metadata accurately refl ects the realities of the videotape. Timecode,
camera and sound roll numbers, scene, and take labels must be correct at this
point; once editing begins it’s much harder to fi nd and resolve problems.
The assistant editor organizes every scene and take into bins (Avidspeak for
folders), as shown in Figure 3-3, arranged however is most comfortable for
Figure 3-3 Shots in the Avid are organized in bins.