ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses organization at the project level and the bin level, organization of sequences and versions, and even timeline organization. In 1996 Avid introduced a scene organization and footage access method that is unique to Avid. It was originally available on an NLE called EditFlex, from whom Avid acquired the patent. The method entails importing the text of the script into Avid and then linking footage to the script in a very similar way to the method that a script supervisor lines a script on the set. When Avid originally implemented this feature, it was not called ScriptSync. In May of 2007, Avid teamed with a speech recognition company called Nexidia to improve Script Integration and rename it ScriptSync.
