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September 3, 2025
Question

Adobe’s Transcription and Text Editing is a Disaster

  • September 3, 2025
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This  Adobe transcription and text editing tool is an absolute idiot of software, a complete piece of trash that exists only to waste your time. Every time you try to correct a word, edit a sentence, the  thing doesn’t save, crashes, disappears, and makes you want to pull your hair out. It feels like it was made by people who never actually had to work with video, just to make you lose 100 days on something simple. It’s a glitched mess, disguised as a tool, and anyone sane would go insane trying to use it. It’s frustrating, infuriating, , a nightmare insisting on being called Adobe Premiere, and I swear I’ve never seen software more idiotic and useless for editing text than this.

I think I’m just going to stick with my CapCut account

Editing a short sentence is an enormous struggle, something that should be simple. This Adobe crap should go bankrupt.

This disaster needs to fail.

Is it really so hard to make a decent text editing box????????

Apaid tool that never updates for the better.

I click on the Edit Transcript, I edit it and leave, and when I check, the text is the same.

[Multiple profanities removed by moderator]

5 replies

Participant
September 7, 2025

To everyone who commented, I thank you, and to those who asked for more information to help, I thank you.
BUT, I don't want any help, because if I did, I would go to YouTube or Adobe's own forum.
What I am questioning here are this company's HORRIBLE, RUBBISH, and OUTDATED tools in the INFORMATION AGE and advanced technology with artificial intelligence.
I MENTIONED CAPCUT, with its quick and easy text editing. No need to export, and if I want to export only the SRT or TXT, I can do it with one click. IT'S SUPER EASY.
You are defending a wretched company that is DYING, <crude language removed>
May it go bankrupt. And I am learning to use it to BUY the WONDERFUL DAVINCE RESOLVE, but the learning curve is keeping me stuck in the TRASH called Premiere.
TRASH TRASH

John Waller
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 7, 2025

Most people post here for help, not just to rant. We thought you were seeking help too.

Posting rants here goes nowhere.

 

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BUT, I don't want any help, because if I did, I would go to YouTube or Adobe's own forum.

By @RonyDesign

 

This IS Adobe own forum.

 


You are defending a wretched company that is DYING

 

We get that you don't like Premiere Pro but FYI, Adobe is experiencing record growth.

Creative Cloud User Base Surpasses 37 Million Paid Subscribers | ProDesignTools

Community Expert
September 4, 2025

Premiere Pro’s Text-Based Editing is designed to streamline the workflow by linking your transcript directly to the timeline. To make sure your edits are applied, confirm changes in the Transcript panel or regenerate captions after corrections. For larger projects, exporting and re-importing captions is also a great way to keep everything consistent.

T-Sal
John Waller
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 4, 2025

Lots of vitriol. Little for us to go on.

 

Can you provide system specs and some reproducible steps? Even a video so we can see what you're doing would help.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
September 3, 2025

Filmed a bunch of interviews a week ago, sat down to transcribe to do an edit from the transcrition yesterday.

 

A few words were missed ... otherwise, it worked great. So I can't replicate your issues.

 

And as Rob mentions, if you'd spent the time telling us the specifics, we might either have been able to get you working, or alternatively prove a specific bug.

 

Can't do either at this time.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Community Expert
September 3, 2025

If you spent as much time explaining the problems and giving system specs as you do on your dramatics we might be able to help you find a solution.