One of Avid Media Composer’s shining gems for narrative editing is its Script-Based Editing interface. It allows editors to click on words in a film, TV show or documentary’s script and jump right to the corresponding video itself. Scripts or interview transcripts are synced-up manually by an assistant editor, or automatically using ScriptSync (an option in Media Composer). Editors discover this often-overlooked aspect of Media Composer, and never look back.

1. What editing is like without Avid Script-Based Editing
2. What is SBE?
3. How to produce for an edit using SBE
4. How an edit can “live inside of the script”
5. Under the hood – how it works
6. ScriptSync and PhraseFind
7. Does it seem outdated? Or is it just me?
8. SBE scripts as reference materials
9. Tips, tricks and troubleshooting