Above is a short iPhone-originated RealTime video of a new Final Cut Pro companion application called get, from AV3 software.
The application runs alongside FCP and indexes all your media on a particular hard drive or specified folder by listening to the audio and then allowing the editor to search for terms in the get application interface. There you can preview, scrub around media and jump to each search result. Questionable name aside (and is it: Get, get or ‘get’ ?) the product is very cool.
Once you find the phrase the clip, section of a clip, or multiple clips can be sent to FCP where markers are placed on each clip for the word searched. It is very nice and could be very, very handy. It uses phonetic indexing so it’s quite accurate. The technology that allows this is from nexidia and it was originally a military technology. Avid uses this in its ScriptSync technology and it works well.
For functionality you can dial in the accuracy of your search results and save specific searches. The get application will also see open Final Cut Pro projects. You’ll be able to buy a specific language for $499 when it ships later in the summer. No word on if you can add languages to your license that you originally buy.
I asked the AV3 software guys if this could be implemented into an Avid Script-Sync like functionality for Final Cut Pro ... they just smiled and said they are very familiar with ScriptSync. I don’t see why get could be morphed into a tool tailored specifically for narrative filmmaking. Stay tuned as this is exciting technology that has a lot of potential.
Sure, “Get” could lead to a “Script Sync” like capability for narrative filmmaking. But, if you REALLY want/need that, you can go work on a AVID. What has me excited about “GET” is that this is the first opportunity to have speach recognition software available for FCP. In my world (reality TV) we have mountains of media, and most of it is NOT logged for spoken words, only story content. With “GET”, you can now have loggers note a single “Spoken” key word for a critical scene, and then an editor can easily find that scene. “Get” has the potential to change an editor’s workflow significantly.
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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 04/15 at 08:33 PM
I haven’t ever used it, but how does this piece of software compare to the built-in speech transcription within Adobe Premiere? I use Final Cut Pro, therefore I’ve never really had a chance to try it out, but I heard it’s quite good - and much cheaper because it comes ‘for free’ with the Premiere.
To me as a documentary filmmaker it would make tons of sense to have such a software, it could save hours and hours of time in the editing suite looking through stuff.
Posted by Nino on 04/19 at 03:37 PM
Hi Guys,
Just to let you know we’ve just put a video up on our website showing you how ‘get’ works. Doug Hynes our product manager takes you through searching through some indexed media and importing it in to your FCP project.
In answer to your question Nino the speech to text technology that’s used by Adobe and Avid doesn’t really compare to our phonetic algorithm. For example if you had an hour of footage it will take traditional speech to text solutions at best real-time to process. The same media is indexed and searchable within ‘get’ in a matter of minutes if not seconds.
Take a look at the video, the software will have a 10 day trial period when it is released in July so give it a go!
Thanks!
Adam
Posted by getPhonetic on 04/21 at 05:38 PM
Looks like a real time-saver indeed. I guess it’s doing English speech-recognition only? Any plans for other languages like e.g. German? There’s a huge market for this.
Thanks for the video Adam! Shows what this is capable of. Heard the words “Sarah Palin” way too often now though 
Posted by Nino on 04/22 at 02:29 AM
It’s funny you ask I was just about to do some blogging on the languages we’re coming to market with!
We are beginning with 7 versions.
US English
UK English
Australian English
French
German
Spanish
Dutch
We are working on up to 30 languages and are trying to cover as much of the planet as possible!
Thanks,
Adam
Posted by getPhonetic on 04/22 at 02:37 AM
Wow, cool! Hope there’s only one version of the software though - I need both English and German transcription from time to time.
Posted by Nino on 04/22 at 02:51 AM
You would need two different versions for the two languages however, the way we are hoping to do this is you pay full price for the first version and we will discount any further versions purchased.
It’s actually really interesting to know do you think there are going to be lots of users who would end up using multiple languages?
Adam
Posted by getPhonetic on 04/22 at 02:58 AM
Yes, I think so. Think about all the broadcasters with correspondents in foreign countries, doing news bits and documentaries. It would seriously hamper the production workflow if only the parts in the principal language would be transcribed.
Posted by Nino on 04/22 at 03:05 AM
