Dialogue Editing

66 GETTING SOUND FROM PICTURE DEPARTMENT TO SOUND DEPARTMENT
Figure 5-5 Options page of Avid’s EDL Manager.
assembly (online), you can’t dissolve from a source videotape to itself (since
you can be at only one location on a tape at a time), so you have to copy specifi
c sections onto a work tape, or “dupe reel.”
The Show section determines which information is displayed in the fi nal
EDL. Choose between Comments and Clip Names depending on the autoassembly
program you’re using.
Standards refers to the type of timecode serving as the basis of the list, in
other words, the record timecode. In the NTSC universe, it’s possible to have
an assortment of non-drop-frame and drop-frame source material, but you
can have only one record timecode. This should be set to the timecode format
of the program automatically. If not, change it to NTSC, PAL video, or one of
the two PAL fi lm settings. Check several edits in the EDL against the realities