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Moving from FCPX to Premiere and confused on a couple of things.

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March 2, 2023
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Hey everybody, I'm learning Premiere to make myself more attractive to potential hirers. I've been using FCPX for years though.

I am enrolled on a Premiere program and I'm also watching many tutorials to supplement my knowledge, however, can somebody help me with the following:

Let's say I am working on a long interview, 2 camera set-up. If I multicam it then how do I then break the interview down into manageable descriptive clips? So that if I need to find a specific clip or comment I can find it quickly.

I may as well ask; even if the interview is one camera how do people organise and break it down into descriptive clips? Use subclips?

I know Premiere has a new function for transcribing and editing the actual transcription but what did people do before this function was available?

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R Neil Haugen

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Prior to the fantastic transcript process? Watched the clip at say 1.5 times speed 10 times, making formal separate named subclips.

Now, why would you waste your time?

Select the clips, create a multicam sequence.

Transcribe that before you even start cutting it.

Now print out your transcript, and note the timecodes you want to use.

Go down that sequence cutting out the bits you don't want.

Now do your camera selections.

Done.

Neil

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phil_d1Author

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Ok, so with the Multicam workflow when the client asks you to find a bit of dialogue that you never put into your cut (in my world that happens a lot) you have to refer back to the transcription and then locate the section of video using the timecode?

Man, that seems a bit faffy. Is it any better with the new transcript process?

I'm enjoying Premiere but it should utilise keywording the way FCPX does.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

Phil,

> Is it any better with the new transcript process?

In the pubic Beta, they have a new process where a) you can transcribe source clips in the background and b) search those clips for words and mark in/out and use either 3 point edits to add to a sequence or work from clips in the timeline and lift/extract to build the sequence.

For your scenario, you could just search the search clips for the words.

They are also now working on an export from the transcript that can be edited by a third party and reimported to PR. In my tests earlier on this reimport, it was not clear to me whether the outside editor could make major edits or just minor.

You can already export a text file and search there to find stuff. But the transcription is for what is in a sequence, not a source clip.

Stan

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