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Understanding Lined Scripts
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15 Script-Based Editing
The following topics provide information about working with script-based editing:
• Understanding Lined Scripts
• Script Integration — Lining in the Digital Realm
• Understanding the Script Window
• Working with the Script Window
• Working with Script Text
• Working with Page or Scene Numbers and Searching in a Script
• Linking Clips to a Script
• Interpolating Position for Script Integration
• Working with Slates in the Script Window
• Working with Takes in the Script Window
• Indicating Off-Screen Dialog in a Script
• Using Color Indicators in the Script Window
• Script Marks
• Finding Clips and Script
• Editing From the Script Window
Understanding Lined Scripts
The conventional lined script evolved during decades of trial and error in Hollywood. It provides
assistant editors and chief editors with a road map that helps them find the coverage they need to
edit scenes in a film or television show.
The script-based editing feature in your Avid editing application lets you adapt the lined script to
the digital realm for use in any type of production, from drama to documentary to spot
advertising. For more information, see “Script Integration — Lining in the Digital Realm” on
page 626.
A traditional lined script is created by hand at the time of shooting. The following is an example
of a scene from a lined script.