Dialogue Editing

70 GETTING SOUND FROM PICTURE DEPARTMENT TO SOUND DEPARTMENT
tinguish a comment line from an event line. Lose the * and you won’t see
your shot information. Repeat the global replace for each of the text string
variations preceding the shot information in the CLIP NAME line.
Saving the EDL
When you fi nish this round of cleaning, save the EDL with a new name, as
a text-only fi le. Auto-assembly programs can’t read Word (.doc) fi les, so your
hard work will go unrecognized. Just to keep all these EDLs straight (there’s
still one more set of fi les to go!), you might want to add another folder to
your existing EDL hierarchy:
Lost in Jordan (fi lm title)/
EDLs (all EDL fi les)/
EDLs post cleaning (as opposed to raw EDLs or print-ready EDLs)/
EDLs for printing (these have headers and other formatting to
ease reading)/
EDLs for post conform (that’s what we just created)/
The Auto-Assembly
Nothing’s worse than perfecting a bad idea, so once you’ve prepared one EDL
for auto-assembly, do a test conform of a few events to see that everything is
working properly.
Auto-Assembly Setup
Connect the timecode from the TC DAT, video, or HD player to the synchronizer.
Don’t rely on the 9-pin timecode. Pulling the timecode from the RS-422
will likely work, but the results can be inconsistent, and it’s diffi cult to see
the advantages of inconsistent timecode.
Next, connect the RS-422 between the computer (or synchronizer) and the
source machine. Alternatively, you can use a TimeLine Lynx as the machine
controller, or the computer’s serial port and V-LAN translators. Whichever
method of machine control you choose, try manipulating the player via the
auto-assembly program’s transport panel to test the connections. Figure 5-7
shows the PostConform transport panel.
Being able to PLAY, FF, REW, and so on, from the transport panel doesn’t
guarantee auto-assembly success, but if you can’t at this point manually
control the player from the computer, it’s certain that the computer won’t be
able to automatically fi nd the needed source sounds.