As you saw in my earlier post about text panel enhancements, transcripts are becoming more central in editing workflows. Starting today in Premiere Pro (Beta) you can create rough cut edits from selected Text passages. To start, you can generate transcripts of your footage in the background when you import your media. Alternatively, you can generate transcripts from the Text panel after your project has been created. Either way, the Sequence transcript panel dynamically syncs with your Timeline: as you make changes in your Sequence transcript, the Timeline will reflect your changes – and vice versa. My colleagues and I created some starter footage for you, as well as a tutorial so you can try it out. If you tend to do all of your editing in a Sequence, follow the guidelines below and/or watch this tutorial. If you tend to do three-point (Source) editing, follow the guidelines below and/or watch this tutorial. Sequence Editing Workflow Download the four videos from the Five Questions video assets folder Open Premiere Pro (Beta -23.0x006 or higher) and create a new project In the Import screen Import "Kerstin interview" Turn on Automatic Transcription and make sure “Create new sequence” is checked. (Note: You can turn on and off automatic transcription in Preferences -> Transcription -> Automatically transcribe clips on import.) Make sure language is set to English Click "Create" In Edit view, open the Progress Panel (Window -> Progress). This will allow you to see transcription progress. The clip should be in your new sequence Click on the Transcript tab in the Text Panel Click “Transcribe sources.” This setting allows your Timeline and Transcript to stay in sync. Use the Search box in the Transcript panel for the word "what." This will allow you to see where the questions are in the video For the first question, highlight everything from "I had a piece of that cake a while ago" until she says "Second question." Click the In/Out point at the top of the Transcript panel. You should see that section of the video highlighted with In/Out points in the Program Monitor Delete the highlighted section using the "Extract" button in the Program Monitor. Go through the rest of the transcript and cut it down to a simple Q&A highlights reel. Have Kerstin state the question and a simple answer, but delete extraneous information. For example, have her say her favorite karaoke song but exclude detail on what makes it a great karaoke song. If you wish to have Premiere automatically set In/Out points around any selected text, go to the dropdown menu in the text panel and select "Set In/Out around selections." Play back your sequence. You should have one sequence with five questions and simple answers. Play back your clip and check for any issues. Try it with your own projects! Three Point (Source) Editing Workflow Download the four interview videos from the Five Questions video assets folder Open Premiere Pro (Beta - 23.0x006 or higher) and import the four videos to your Desktop or other preferred folder Create a new project In the Import screen Check the boxes next to all four videos Turn on Automatic transcription (Note: You can turn on and off automatic transcription in Preferences -> Transcription -> Automatically transcribe clips on import.) Make sure “Create new sequence” is unchecked Make sure language is set to English Click "Create" In Edit view, open the Progress Panel (Window -> Progress). This will allow you to see transcription progress. Pro Tip: Set up your windows so that Text Panel, Source Monitor, and Program Monitor are side by side. Create a new sequence (File-> New -> Sequence). Name the sequence "Karaoke" Double-click on any clip in the Properties Panel Click on the Transcript tab in the Text Panel Click on the “Source” tab to keep the source transcript in view Search the transcript for the word “karaoke.” Select the question and answer and click the In/Out point at the top of the Transcript panel. You should see that section of the video highlighted in the Source Monitor Use the Insert button in the Source Monitor (or comma (,) keyboard shortcut) to insert the selection into the timeline. Do the same thing for the four remaining source clips If you wish to have Premiere automatically set In/Out points around any selected text, go to the dropdown menu in the text panel and select "Set In/Out around selections." Play back your sequence. You should have one sequence with five people answering the same question. Switch to Sequence view in the Transcript tab Click “Transcribe sources.” This setting allows your Timeline and Transcript to stay in sync. If there are any extraneous words in your sequence, highlight those words and click the In/Out point at the top of the Transcript panel. You should see in/out points selected in your Timeline panel. Delete the words and associated subclip with the Extract (apostrophe (‘) keyboard shortcut in the Program Monitor. Play back your clip and check for any issues. Try it with your own projects! Stay tuned, because we have more coming this year Document style text editing: Use Cmd+X/Cmd+V and Delete to edit your tracks from the Text panel. Range selection: Select a sub-clip on a single track using text. We know that In/Out points + ripple delete affects all tracks in your sequence and deletion isn’t helpful if you have B-roll, music, etc. Language detection: Set your language preferences in Preferences -> Transcription for now. The ability to detect language on import will reduce a click, and can be helpful when you are working on a project that includes multiple languages. Search Source footage for key moments We would love to hear from you How is the performance of automatic transcription when you have hours of files? Please share your system specs + the number of hours of source footage you are transcribing. When working with your own footage, are you mostly editing the Sequence Transcript, Source Transcript, or a mix of both? Are there any moments where the UI or descriptions feel unintuitive? How well do the timing of the cuts work? For non-English languages: Are there any languages or dialect problems, e.g. problems selecting text, editing word boundaries, etc?

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Text Panel Enhancements (Part 2): Assemble Rough Cuts from Transcripts

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As you saw in my earlier post about text panel enhancements, transcripts are becoming more central in editing workflows. Starting today in Premiere Pro (Beta) you can create rough cut edits from selected Text passages.

To start, you can generate transcripts of your footage in the background when you import your media. Alternatively, you can generate transcripts from the Text panel after your project has been created. Either way, the Sequence transcript panel dynamically syncs with your Timeline: as you make changes in your Sequence transcript, the Timeline will reflect your changes – and vice versa.

My colleagues and I created some starter footage for you, as well as a tutorial so you can try it out. If you tend to do all of your editing in a Sequence, follow the guidelines below and/or watch this tutorial. If you tend to do three-point (Source) editing, follow the guidelines below and/or watch this tutorial.

Sequence Editing Workflow

Download the four videos from the Five Questions video assets folder
Open Premiere Pro (Beta -23.0x006 or higher) and create a new project
In the Import screen

Import "Kerstin interview"
Turn on Automatic Transcription and make sure “Create new sequence” is checked. (Note: You can turn on and off automatic transcription in Preferences -> Transcription -> Automatically transcribe clips on import.)
Make sure language is set to English
Click "Create"

In Edit view, open the Progress Panel (Window -> Progress). This will allow you to see transcription progress.
The clip should be in your new sequence
Click on the Transcript tab in the Text Panel
Click “Transcribe sources.” This setting allows your Timeline and Transcript to stay in sync.
Use the Search box in the Transcript panel for the word "what." This will allow you to see where the questions are in the video
For the first question, highlight everything from "I had a piece of that cake a while ago" until she says "Second question."
Click the In/Out point at the top of the Transcript panel. You should see that section of the video highlighted with In/Out points in the Program Monitor
Delete the highlighted section using the "Extract" button in the Program Monitor.
Go through the rest of the transcript and cut it down to a simple Q&A highlights reel. Have Kerstin state the question and a simple answer, but delete extraneous information. For example, have her say her favorite karaoke song but exclude detail on what makes it a great karaoke song.

If you wish to have Premiere automatically set In/Out points around any selected text, go to the dropdown menu in the text panel and select "Set In/Out around selections."

Play back your sequence. You should have one sequence with five questions and simple answers.
Play back your clip and check for any issues.
Try it with your own projects!

Three Point (Source) Editing Workflow

Download the four interview videos from the Five Questions video assets folder
Open Premiere Pro (Beta - 23.0x006 or higher) and import the four videos to your Desktop or other preferred folder
Create a new project
In the Import screen

Check the boxes next to all four videos
Turn on Automatic transcription (Note: You can turn on and off automatic transcription in Preferences -> Transcription -> Automatically transcribe clips on import.)
Make sure “Create new sequence” is unchecked
Make sure language is set to English
Click "Create"

In Edit view, open the Progress Panel (Window -> Progress). This will allow you to see transcription progress.

Pro Tip: Set up your windows so that Text Panel, Source Monitor, and Program Monitor are side by side.

Create a new sequence (File-> New -> Sequence). Name the sequence "Karaoke"
Double-click on any clip in the Properties Panel
Click on the Transcript tab in the Text Panel
Click on the “Source” tab to keep the source transcript in view
Search the transcript for the word “karaoke.”
Select the question and answer and click the In/Out point at the top of the Transcript panel. You should see that section of the video highlighted in the Source Monitor
Use the Insert button in the Source Monitor (or comma (,) keyboard shortcut) to insert the selection into the timeline.
Do the same thing for the four remaining source clips

If you wish to have Premiere automatically set In/Out points around any selected text, go to the dropdown menu in the text panel and select "Set In/Out around selections."

Play back your sequence. You should have one sequence with five people answering the same question.
Switch to Sequence view in the Transcript tab
Click “Transcribe sources.” This setting allows your Timeline and Transcript to stay in sync.
If there are any extraneous words in your sequence, highlight those words and click the In/Out point at the top of the Transcript panel. You should see in/out points selected in your Timeline panel.
Delete the words and associated subclip with the Extract (apostrophe (‘) keyboard shortcut in the Program Monitor.
Play back your clip and check for any issues.
Try it with your own projects!

Stay tuned, because we have more coming this year

Document style text editing: Use Cmd+X/Cmd+V and Delete to edit your tracks from the Text panel.
Range selection: Select a sub-clip on a single track using text. We know that In/Out points + ripple delete affects all tracks in your sequence and deletion isn’t helpful if you have B-roll, music, etc.
Language detection: Set your language preferences in Preferences -> Transcription for now. The ability to detect language on import will reduce a click, and can be helpful when you are working on a project that includes multiple languages.
Search Source footage for key moments

We would love to hear from you

How is the performance of automatic transcription when you have hours of files? Please share your system specs + the number of hours of source footage you are transcribing.
When working with your own footage, are you mostly editing the Sequence Transcript, Source Transcript, or a mix of both?
Are there any moments where the UI or descriptions feel unintuitive?
How well do the timing of the cuts work?
For non-English languages: Are there any languages or dialect problems, e.g. problems selecting text, editing word boundaries, etc?

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Robert25217353bvxa

Participating Frequently

This seems like a great improvement to Premiere. I currently use multi-camera interview footage that I sync into a new sequence using Plural Eyes. Will the Transcribe Source feature support that workflow? Currently, I end up with a raw interview sequence that I transcribe for internal purposes and to share with the subject. After editing the sequence into a finished project, I have to re-transcribe for captioning purposes. Thanks for these updates!

TeresaDemelAuthor

Adobe Employee

Hi Robert, thanks for your question. I just checked out Plural Eyes so my knowledge is limited on that. If you run the sync on the clips in your sequence and then transcribe, it should work today. You can either run transcription on a single track or on the mix. Either way it should work. Let me know if I'm missing something from the Plural Eyes workflow (e.g. it syncs source footage prior to doing 3-point editing).

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detlefs23288115

Participant

Transkription to Source-Clips will be very powerful! Thanks for this. I remember this was feature in older Versions of Premiere (long time ago) an I missed it in the meantime.

Kes Akalaonu

Inspiring

Liking the new transcribe functionality after initial testing. There's a few things I would like to see added if possible. The ability to map keyboard shortcuts to Set In/Out points around selections. A preference setting you can toggle where after you Set In/Out points around selection it instantly goes to the Source or Program monitors. Right now, I have to either click or use a keybind to get to those monitors.

Kerstin Ebert

Adobe Employee

Thank you for your feedback!

You can automatically set In/Out points around your text selection: click on the "..." menu in the top right corner of the Text panel and select "Set In/Out around selections". This will automatically set the In/Out points in either Source or Program monitor (depending on whether you are working in a source transcript or a sequence transcript) whenever you select text in your transcript.

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Keith5FE1

Participant

Kerstin, I'm not seeing that option under the ... menu.

Other than that, I like this fuction in general. I've used your media and played around making a sequence and only using the transcript in both source and program windows, and it's a breeze! I am very happy to report that when moving clips around the timeline, that the sequence's transcription immediately updates. This is huge for editing interviews. Before this version, if you moved a clip elsewhere in the timeline, the transcript did not update and was then completely out of sync. So, this is really good news for me. Thanks!

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ah.photo

Inspiring

@TeresaDemel

I just watched both videos, and credit where credit is due - this is a fantastic update and wonderful follow through from you and the rest of the Premiere team who've worked on this. I've said it before, but being able to perform three point edits with source-linked transcriptions, in my opinion, will be one of the most substantive "game changing" workflow enhancements that Premiere Pro (and NLEs outright) have seen in quite some time.

I'll make a point to download the beta once the v23 build rolls out to me and run some previous interviews I shot through it and will pass along any notable findings - but until then - kudos and thank you!