Dialogue Editing

246 CONFORMATIONS
conform your session with Titan or a similar fi le management program. Titan
accepts a change list in EDL form and creates a DAW session.
If your workstation includes an autoconform routine, as do Pyramix and
Fairlight MFX, you can import the new EDL directly into your session and
then conform it. Although EDL-based conformation solutions require an
additional step, they may be more appropriate if you work with a wide array
of workstations, since any manufacturer’s DAW can read a CMX3600 EDL.
On a typical large fi lm, picture department changes are codifi ed as Avid
change lists or EDLs (or maybe ACLs) and e-mailed regularly to the sound
department. With a good piece of conforming software and a skilled assistant
sound editor, the sound can be fully conformed before the new digital picture
cut arrives. All that’s left is checking the conformed audio against the picture.
No matter how slick the conforming process becomes, don’t forget that
nothing can replace physically checking the sound against the new picture.