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Vince281039543rf2
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June 1, 2023

Import corrected transcript(txt) bug

  • June 1, 2023
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I have tried this in the current and beta versions of Premiere, and both give me strange issues.
I sent out a 1.5 hour long edit to proofreading for adjustment.  I copied the corrections into a text document and tried to Text > Import > Import Corrected Transcript (TXT) and I get horrible results.
I have the original TXT file so I tried to import that - also horrible results.
first half has the time code and speaker name but <Type your caption here>  until about 00:43:50:00 when it starts filling in the captions from the beginning but with the wrong speaker,  The text is off, and towarrds the end it just puts all of the rest of the text under the last timecode.
Same results in both versions.  Using both the original exported text file and the corrected file.
The Text corrections took the proofreader over a day to review - to stat again and work in SRT format would be costly - am i missing something? 

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    Jorge33643669qtn4
    Participant
    November 18, 2023

    Did you ever resolve the issue? I'm struggling with that right now.

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      firste13845131
      Participant
      June 9, 2023

      Hi @Kerstin Ebert,

      I have the exact same problem going on.

      So basically I have a non-English interview which was transcribed by Premiere (Productions). I never change the speaker settings, nor do I make corrections. Just a simple, plain transcription to test the external spell correction option.

      I can export the trancript to a txt file (Export, Export to text file...). I don't change anything besides one word. I save the text file and try to reimport it into the same Text dialogue within Premiere which still hold the original transcript (Import, Import corrected transcript (txt)...).

      Next thing, the original transcript disappears, only to be replaced by some weird new version like @Vince281039543rf2 described.

      This is a REALLY powerful option (to be able to extract the transcript and have people run by all the corrections outside of Premiere Productions (correcting the text from within Premiere takes 5 times longer, also because the transcripts get slower when they're long (like 4 hour interviews).

      Too bad this doesn't fully work yet. One would think that (especially) if you leave the time codes alone, Premiere should easily be able to simply replace A with B, leaving all the connections to the timeline intact for a function like text-based editing.

      I don't think I can change anything on my end to make it work. I tried to disable viewing the timecodes and speakers, but that doesn't do anything (they also still appear in the text file).

      Thanks!

        Kerstin Ebert
        Adobe Employee
        Kerstin Ebert
        Adobe Employee
        June 5, 2023

        Hi Vince,

        sorry to hear that you're running into this issue. I don't see this happening on my end so it would be useful if you could send me your transcript as

        - .prtranscript file (go to Export -> Export transcript)

        - .txt file (go to Export -> Export to text file)

        so I can investigate further.

         

        When you are making corrections in the text file, did you make any changes to the timecodes or the speaker names?

         

        Thanks,

        Kerstin

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