Clip Naming and transcription trick

This is a really useful method of naming clips if you have a transcribed interview, compliments of director Clifford Bestall who invented it.

In the transcription text document the director makes his or her selections by whatever method: changing font/ highlighting sections etc. In that same process , he or she also selects a memorable word or phrase in each paragraph or section (which relates to a separate clip), and makes that word or phrase bold. That bold text, which is easy to find in the document, becomes the clip name.

The editor or assistant uses the text document as the basis for digitizing, and for the naming of the clips simply copies and pastes the bold text from the document to the bin.

Now the director and editor will be on the same page - because memorable phrases or words are easy to find in a bin and in a text document, and are far more useful to jog memory and make conceptual connections than a numerical system.

~ by schmidtsk on May 12, 2008.