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jorbi · 6th February 2007

Anyone here involved in dialogue editing? I do a ton of dialogue editing for my job. I've been using ProTools for years and years and that's what we use here, but I find it endlessly frustrating that, when breaking up a recording session and creating specific regions for the various lines of dialogue, there is no databasing capabilities... at least that I'm aware of.

I would love to select a line and instead of simply creating a region to which I can only give a name, create the region and have it automatically allow me to assign attributes to the region, such as scene, character, take, line #, or whatever other "category" i choose to set up for the session. You could tab through the various fields and that information would also be included as metadata if you exported the regions as files. You could also then opt to arrange your region list in accordance to any of the fields... by character, by scene, by line, etc. Essentially... more like the way you medialog footage for an Avid.

As it is, I'm forced to simply name the regions in a way that allows them to list themselves by line number. Is there better dialogue editing software that I'm unaware of? Anyone?

6th February 2007	#1
jorbi Gear interested Joined: Apr 2005 Location: somerville Posts: 15 Thread Starter	Dialogue Editing Anyone here involved in dialogue editing? I do a ton of dialogue editing for my job. I've been using ProTools for years and years and that's what we use here, but I find it endlessly frustrating that, when breaking up a recording session and creating specific regions for the various lines of dialogue, there is no databasing capabilities... at least that I'm aware of. I would love to select a line and instead of simply creating a region to which I can only give a name, create the region and have it automatically allow me to assign attributes to the region, such as scene, character, take, line #, or whatever other "category" i choose to set up for the session. You could tab through the various fields and that information would also be included as metadata if you exported the regions as files. You could also then opt to arrange your region list in accordance to any of the fields... by character, by scene, by line, etc. Essentially... more like the way you medialog footage for an Avid. As it is, I'm forced to simply name the regions in a way that allows them to list themselves by line number. Is there better dialogue editing software that I'm unaware of? Anyone?