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JonathanA23
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June 5, 2024
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Text-Based Editing - "Highlight" Mode

  • June 5, 2024
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I usually work with interview footage. For a while now, since Adobe introduced text based editing, I have been using it and it has been incredibly helpful to work with. However, I have always felt it could be faster. The current system works by playing the video and stopping when a transcript selection has been made. Then the editor decides what to do with that selection. However, there are 2 things that happen through this process:

 

1) The editor has to constantly pause and play the footage while selecting the content.

2) When the selection is integrated to the timeline and we continue on, the selection is overwritten.

 

I would like to see a "highlight" form of text based editing. In this mode, the editor would have the transcript rolling along with the footage as it plays, like it currently does. However, when a selection is made, playback would not stop on the video, but the text would be highlighted in the transcript. The editor can now continue playing the footage, making highlights, as if working on pen and paper while listening to audio. When all the desired footage has been highlighted in the transcript, the editor could press a button, maybe "insert highlights to timeline" and Premiere would only add those selects into the timeline. (The reverse could also happen with timeline text based editing, where "highlights" would be removed.)

 

This would solve the 2 issues I have encountered with text based editing:

 

1) I could continuosly work while making selections. Significantly speeding up the process.

2) Assuming Premiere will keep my highlights after I insert them, as I believe it should, I would have a permanent record of the content I have used from the footage via the transcript. Easily being able to see what material I have already used. (Bonus points if such transcript can be exported as pdf.)

 

I believe this would make Premiere Pro the superior text based editing software and the recent inclusion of markers in the text based editing window in the most recent update, makes me hopeful for this addition.

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    Stan Jones
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    Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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    June 6, 2024

    Upvoted.

     

    Just brainstorming here; this workflow would be a workaround for your request. But maybe the programmers are headed in your direction?

    @AnnikaKoenig @TeresaDemel Am I missing a discussion in the Beta forum where these possibilities are discussed?

     

    Also see these previous Ideas:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/add-marker-functionality/idi-p/13440473

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/feature-request-link-clips-transcriptions-to-marker-comments-based-on-span-of-the-maker/idi-p/14236054

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/marker-creation-from-text-based-editor/idi-p/13757410

     

    Release 24.4.1 introduced a Marker functionality in the Transcript panel:

    https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/whats-new/2024-4.html#TBE-updates

     

    Updated Help guide page:

    https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/text-based-editing.html#add-markers

     

    Using the M shortcut adds a sequence marker in the timeline and does NOT stop playback. You can also add keyboard shortcuts to add color markers. And in Source Monitor view, the marker is added as a Clip marker.

     

    The help guide gives the example of selecting a range, and a single marker is added with duration. But playback stops to do that.

     

    Just to stimulate discussion:

     

    Add Ctl+H for green marker and Ctl+Y for red marker.

    As noted in the help guide, be sure you have Markers selected in the Transcript view options.

    Play the timeline from the text panel, Ctl+H for beginning of section and Ctl+Y for end of section. Do part or all of timeline.

    In the transcript, go to a green marker. Shft+M and Ctl+Shft+M work, and are in sync in transcript panel and timeline. In the transcript, use shortcuts (e.g. Shft+Right will select the next word) to mark to the red marker. Type M to create a Sequence marker with duration.

    There are many Text panel selection shortcuts. In the Text panel section, look for Select to next line, etc.

    You can clean up markers in the marker panel.

     

    I am not a markers expert. Can you take a marker with duration and use it to select in/out points? Etc.

     

    Stan

     

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