Dialogue Editing

242 CONFORMATIONS
editor to create a test change list a few days (or hours) before you’re due to
make the confos. This will give you time to digest the specifi cs and request
alterations or at least clarifi cations.
Manual Conformations
You’ll probably receive a new picture, an OMF, an EDL, and the change list
from the picture department. If you didn’t get an EDL, ask for both audio
and video lists before the picture department goes home. They may prove
useful later. Then:
Before you do anything else, make a backup copy of your session.
Import the new OMF tracks into your old session and save the
combined session under a new name (see Figure 14-3). Confi rm that
the revised picture is in sync with the new OMF.
Unhide the original OMF tracks so you can conform them along with
the rest of the session.
Reduce all tracks to the smallest size so that you can see as many
tracks as possible.
Create two edit sync groups: one containing all of the tracks of the
new OMF; the other, all tracks in the old session. This includes the
active dialogue tracks, PFX, ADR, and any junk tracks containing
synchronous material.
Removing Material
Activate the edit group containing the old (original) session, and do whatever
it takes on your workstation to ensure that your markers will move along
with the audio. The cursor should span all of the tracks. Locate the session
to the time or footage noted in the fi rst event of the change list. If the event
simply calls for removing material, you’ll see an instruction like this:
or perhaps
at 243+04 remove 6+13
at 4:10:22:23 remove 4:03
When you type the required duration in the Length fi eld, you’ll see a selection
of the correct duration crossing all tracks of the old session, including
the marker region. If you’re working with Pro Tools, select Shuffl e mode and
delete. Then immediately return to Slip mode. If you’re working on another