The transcription platform Simon Says today expands its offer with Simon Says Assemble – a new product that allows production teams and filmmakers to quickly create a rough cut of a story for further editing. Assemble can import and transcribe interview footage and dailies, highlight the key soundbites in the transcription, and you can then simply drag and drop the soundbite text into the desired order to create the story’s spine. Simon Says is a timecode-based AI transcription platform that automatically converts spoken text in an audio track into written text. That makes it useful when creating subtitles, script, or translating a video. Simon Says can export to multiple formats for easy integration with most NLEs and it is compatible with many languages. Earlier this year, Simon Says launched the on-premise transcription tool, later the company added DaVinci Resolve integration. Today, Simon Says launches a new product called Simon Says Assemble – let’s take a short look at it. Simon Says Assemble According to its creators, Simon Says Assemble speeds up the process of building the story before even stepping into the edit suite. While transcribing, it enables users to search, highlight, order, and reorder soundbites directly in the transcript to add them to the timeline. Simon Says Assemble. Source: Simon Says With a story locked, it can be exported to the preferred NLE (Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Apple Final Cut Pro, or DaVinci Resolve). The XML automatically re-creates the assembled timeline and seamlessly relinks the media at the...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 8 December, 2020