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Sequence Transcript becomes desynchronized after manual Ripple Deletes on the timeline

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Issue

Premiere Pro Sequence Transcript loses synchronization with the actual audio after performing manual Ripple Deletes directly on the timeline.

I use Text-Based Editing Transcript for the Sequence, not the Source Clip transcript.

Steps to reproduce

Create a new Premiere Pro project.
Import the original video file directly from an SSD.
Create a new Sequence using the imported video.
Generate a Text-Based Editing Transcript for the Sequence.
Use Delete All Pauses to remove pauses.
Continue editing directly on the timeline by selecting linked video and audio clips and performing manual Ripple Deletes.
After several edits, play the Sequence and compare the highlighted words in the Transcript panel with the actual audio.

Expected result

The Sequence Transcript should remain synchronized with the audio after every timeline edit.

Actual result

The highlighted words no longer match the spoken audio. The transcript appears to reference incorrect positions in the edited Sequence.

The desynchronization persists after saving the project, closing Premiere Pro, and reopening the project.

System and application information

Premiere Pro version: 26.5.2
Operating system: macOS Tahoe 26.6.2
Computer: Mac with Apple M2 chip
Transcript type: Text-Based Editing Transcript (Sequence)
Follow Active Monitor: Enabled
Automatically set in/out points: Enabled

Additional information

Manual edits are performed directly on the timeline using Ripple Delete, not through transcript text selection.
The issue has occurred with multiple source videos and in multiple projects.
Clearing the media cache did not resolve the issue.
Creating a new Sequence in the same project has not provided a reliable solution.
The issue has also occurred in a newly created project.

Source media examples

Kris:

H.264
3840 × 2160
29.97 fps
Constant Frame Rate
48 kHz audio

Jennifer:

HEVC
3840 × 2160
30 fps
Variable Frame Rate detected

Impact

Sequence Transcript is an essential part of my editing workflow. I rely on it to remove pauses efficiently and navigate spoken words when placing graphics. This issue makes the feature unreliable for normal editing work.

Please investigate whether this is a bug in how Sequence Transcript synchronization is updated after manual timeline Ripple Deletes.

Amy the Stuv

Community Manager

Thank you @MariiaZarezko for providing the trimmed project. I was able to see the issue you were talking about and I even reproduced it in a new project in 27.0

I’m filing a ticket with these findings and updating the status of this post. We appreciate your help in this matter.

Best,

Amy

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MariiaZarezkoAuthor

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Thank you so much, Amy!

I'm really glad you were able to reproduce the issue, especially in a new project in Premiere Pro 27.0. I appreciate you taking the time to investigate this and forwarding your findings to the engineering team.

Hopefully, this will help identify the cause and lead to a fix. I'll keep an eye on the thread for any updates.

Thanks again for your help!

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Amy the Stuv

Community Manager

Hello @MariiaZarezko

Welcome to the Premiere Forums. Thank you for the Screen Recording and I am curious if you follow @Stan Jones’ advice if you see the option to “Generate text-based editing transcript.” I was unable to reproduce this issue using Source Transcripts edited into the Timeline, but once I turned it into a Static Transcript, I saw what you experienced.

If you are using separately synced audio, you can just transcribe the source audio files and use the Dynamic Transcript the Timeline will generate, which should keep pace with any edits made. You may be starting with the Captions workflow, but Text Based editing doesn’t support the Captions workflow. You should add your Captions after the video editing is completed.

Here is more information on Text Based Editing

Hoping to help,

Amy

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MariiaZarezkoAuthor

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Hi Amy,

Thank you for taking the time to look into this!

I checked the three-dot menu in the Transcript panel. It currently offers "Generate Static Transcript", not "Generate Text-Based Editing Transcript." Based on Stan's explanation, this means I am currently using the dynamic Text-Based Editing Transcript generated from source media transcriptions, rather than a static sequence transcript.

I am not using the Captions workflow. I use the Transcript panel to remove pauses with Delete All Pauses, and then continue editing directly on the timeline using manual Ripple Deletes on linked video and audio clips.

The issue occurs during this workflow: after several manual Ripple Deletes, the dynamic sequence transcript becomes desynchronized from the actual audio.

Could you please clarify whether this behavior should also occur with dynamic source-based transcripts? If not, I believe my issue may be different from the static transcript behavior you were able to reproduce.

Thank you!

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Amy the Stuv

Community Manager

@MariiaZarezko It really shouldn’t happen with either, but I only reproduced it with the Static Transcript, so let’s dive deeper. I was using an H264 file with sound married to the video clip.

Do you have Video and Audio recorded separately that you marry together into a Multigroup clip for editing?
Are you working from a single project or a Production where the source files may be in a closed project?
Has the project been updated from earlier versions?
If you go back to the source clips and Re-transcribe them, does it update the Sequence transcription?

Please do all of this testing from a copy of your project to preserve any transcription edits you’ve made. I am also curious if creating a static transcript and then going back to a dynamic one corrects the issue.

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Stan Jones

Community Expert

@MariiaZarezko

Thanks for the detail and the screen recording.

> I use Text-Based Editing Transcript for the Sequence, not the Source Clip transcript.

> Generate a Text-Based Editing Transcript for the Sequence.

What you are seeing is what happens when you use a sequence/static transcript. And this is working normally for me, and if it were a consistent bug, we would have seen other reports.

There are only 2 types of transcription: a source clip or a static sequence. When you add an un-transcribed clip to a sequence, you are prompted to transcribe source clips. That creates the sequence VIEW of the sequence transcript, but the transcriptions are of source clips. When you have a static sequence transcript, the 3 dot menu shows an option for “Generate text-based editing transcript,” but what this does is to generate source media transcriptions. Most often, these already exist and it just returns you to them.

To check this, click the 3-dot menu in sequence view, and see if it offers “Generate text-based editing transcript. If so, you have a static transcript.

If not, that’s weird!

Stan

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MariiaZarezkoAuthor

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Hi Stan,

Thank you for the detailed explanation!

I checked the three-dot menu in the Sequence Transcript panel, as you suggested.

The option available is "Generate Static Transcript". The option "Generate Text-Based Editing Transcript" is not shown.

So, based on your explanation, I understand that I am currently using a dynamic Text-Based Editing Transcript based on source media transcriptions, not a static sequence transcript.

This is why I am still confused about the issue. The transcript initially follows the timeline correctly, but after I use Delete All Pauses and then perform several manual Ripple Deletes directly on the timeline (selecting linked video and audio clips), the transcript gradually becomes desynchronized from the actual audio.

The problem persists after saving, closing, and reopening the project.

Could you help me understand why this might happen with a dynamic transcript? Is there another setting or workflow detail I should check?

Thank you for your help!

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MariiaZarezkoAuthor

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