3. ptulsconv For ADR Report Generation

3.1. Reports Created by the ADR Report Generator

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3.2. Tags Used by the ADR Report Generator

3.2.1. Project-Level Tags

It usually makes sense to place these either in the session name, or on a marker at the beginning of the session, so it will apply to all of the clips in the session.

Title: The title of the project. This will appear at the top of every report.

Warning

ptulsconv at this time only supports one title per export. If you attempt to use multiple titles in one export it will fail.

Supv: The supervisor of the project. This appears at the bottom of every report.
Client: The client of the project. This will often appear under the title on every report.
Spot: The date or version number of the spotting report.

3.2.2. Time Range Tags

All of these tags can be set to different values on each clip, but it often makes sense to use these tags in a time range.

Sc: The scene description. This appears on the continuity report and is used in the Director’s logs.
Ver: The picture version. This appears beside the spot timecodes on most reports.
Reel: The reel. This appears beside the spot timecodes on most reports and is used to summarize line totals on the line count report.

3.2.3. Line tags

P: Priority.
QN: Cue number. This appears on all reports.

Warning

ptulsconv will verify that all cue numbers in a given title are unique.

All lines must have a cue number in order to generate reports, if any lines do not have a cue number set, ptulsconv will fail.

CN: Character number. This is used to collate character records and will appear on the line count and in character-collated reports.
Char: Character name. By default, a clip will set this to the name of the track it appears on, but the track name can be overridden here.
Actor: Actor name.
Line: The prompt to appear for this ADR line. By default, this will be whatever text appears in a clip name prior to the first tag.
R: Reason.
Mins: Time budget for this line, in minutes. This is used in the line count report to give estimated times for each character. This can be set for the entire project (with a marker), or for individual actors (with a tag in the track comments), or can be set for individual lines to override these.
Shot: Shot. A Date or other description indicating the line has been recorded.

3.2.4. Boolean-valued ADR Tag Fields

EFF: Effort. Lines with this tag are subtotaled in the line count report.
TV: TV line. Lines with this tag are subtotaled in the line count report.
TBW: To be written.
ADLIB: Ad-lib.
OPT: Optional. Lines with this tag are subtotaled in the line count report.