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18 I M PS E . O R G I personally can't imagine pulling alts without Kraken moving forward. With a price tag of only £280 ($442 USD), it has been some of the best money ever spent on a piece of software. Assembling Dialogue While I have happily been using and will continue to use EdiLoad from Sounds in Sync as my primary tool for dialogue assemblies, Kraken similarly offers the ability to assemble dialogue from an EDL provided by the picture department. It allows you to import an EDL, match it back to the project's dailies/rushes folder, and assemble to a Pro Tools session. As any dialogue editor knows, not every picture department will deliver a usable EDL for the assembly process. Currently in Beta from Kraken is the ability to create an EDL from an OMF/AAF that has been imported into Pro Tools. While it will not work every time, it provides a stop- gap between assembling from a proper EDL and doing it by hand in Pro Tools. Top-Notch Support and New Features Marc created Kraken to solve a particular set of issues in his daily workfl ow. Thank goodness he decided to release it to the world! In the instances I have had any questions about the software or wanted to better understand a particular process, Marc has always made himself available to talk me through it. He regularly updates the software and is developing new tools to solve challenges other users have suggested solving. One particular upcoming feature comes to mind. When assembling dialogue that was recorded on a Zaxcom recorder and edited in Avid, unless a particular box is checked in Avid, the audio of each track assembled using the fi eld recorder functionality in Pro Tools ends up slightly out of sync. I have personally been on the receiving end of this issue on a past project and involved manually re-syncing each piece of audio, which was a total mess. While Titan 4 from Synchro Arts has a function to address this specifi c issue, it is £1710 ($2,697 USD) and is NOT supported on macOS 10.15 and later. When a similar feature comes online in Kraken, I see a lot of folks picking up a copy for this alone. In Conclusion With ever-shrinking budgets and compacted timelines, anything we can do as dialogue editors to speed up how we work is worth its weight in gold. I personally can't imagine pulling alts without Kraken moving forward. With a price tag of only £280 ($442 USD), it has been some of the best money ever spent on a piece of software. Kraken spot to Pro Tools