User Manual

Linking Clips to a Script
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To search for a page or scene number:
1. Select Script > Go To Page or Script > Go To Scene.
You can also click in the page or scene display in the status bar at the bottom of the Script
window.
The Go To Scene/Page dialog box opens.
2. Type the number of the scene or page, and click OK.
The Script window scrolls to the page or scene, and the first line is highlighted. If you type a
page or scene number that is not in the script, then no action occurs.
To search for text in a script:
1. With the Script window active, select Edit > Find.
The Find dialog box opens.
2. Type the text you are looking for.
3. Select one of the optional search parameters, when appropriate:
t If you do not want the search to be case sensitive, select Ignore Case.
t If you do not want the search to highlight instances where your text is part of another
word, select Whole Word.
4. Click OK.
The first occurrence of the text is highlighted in the Script window.
5. Select Edit > Find Again to search for the next occurrence of the text.
Linking Clips to a Script
You can link clips to the script by hand, or, if your Avid editing application includes the
ScriptSync feature, you can use ScriptSync to automatically link clips to the script. For more
information about ScriptSync, see “Marking with ScriptSync” on page 650.
To link clips to the script:
1. Open the script bin by double-clicking the Script Bin icon.
2. Open the source bin for the clips that you want to link to the script.
3. (Option) Sort the source clips to make the job easier:
t You can sort the Scene/Take column for an alphanumeric list of clips that matches their
relative order in the script.