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How to create specific Memory Location Markers for a Spotting Session?

By @Ugosound
    2019-08-31 01:00:06.776Z

    Hey Christian!

    There was an awesome app a few years ago (went out of business unfortunately) called "Spotting Session".
    Based loosely on that idea, with a much lighter version of it, could we create a script that does the following:

    (While Playing)

    1. Insert a Marker (press "enter")

    2. Open the Marker Window

    3. Write "ADR" in the NAME section. (then we can update the script for DX, or MX or FOLEY, or whatever "group of task" we want to)

    4. Click on the COMMENTS section (so we can directly write a note if needed, without using the mouse)

    Then we can close that window by just pressing Enter like it is now.

    What do you think? See you in a few days in LA!

    Cheers!

    Ugo

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    1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2019-09-01 19:55:26.339Z

      Hi @Ugosound!
      Yes this would be pretty easy to make as a macro in the new SoundFlow 3. Are you coming on Thursday? Then we could make making this macro part of our demo/workshop.

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      1. U@Ugosound
          2019-09-01 21:31:32.489Z

          Sounds good! Yes, I'll be there Thursday.

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          1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2019-09-01 23:03:15.785Z

            Awesome!! Feel free to bring colleagues or friends. Just make sure to RSVP since there's a cap.

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          Fokke van Saane @Fokke
            2019-09-05 05:51:16.094Z

            The idea behind that Spotting App was that other viewers could add notes too. Extra terrestrial humans like; directors and the nephew of the director who wants to go to film school and has an opinion about everything... :-)
            So, what you would like to have is a sort of timecode distribution that is send to all those laptops and i pads and import those notes. Spotting App used MTC for that on a remote network, but for me there was the bottle neck. They had to install something on their iPad etc.
            So i would suggest a html solution; people have to go to a website hosted by the studio that receives the timecode and type there.
            Ofcourse, many people still write on paper (especially while viewing in the dark) so the timecode should also be possible entered off line afterwards.

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            1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2019-09-05 18:22:43.033Z

              I completely agree with the HTML/web based solution as an approch that would help down the line.

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              @Ugosound
                2019-09-05 18:25:36.526Z

                100% !

                That app was actually providing that as well. You could log in into a website and synching into a session created for that reason, synched thru MTC as you suggested. It was great...

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