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Premiere Transcript Gaps

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September 14, 2023
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I'm getting an error at times with Premiere's transcription ability where it has gaps, essentially skips some entire portions of a speaker. It's happened multiple times for it to be an issue, but sometimes it's fine.

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Correct answer Stan Jones

See this post that I think also involved overlapping audio tracks:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/pp-captions-not-showing-transcript-until-restarted-bug-or-glitch-or-just-me/idc-p/14049042#M14160

To test this, mute Audio track 1. Then the transcription of Audio track 2 will appear.

In the public Beta version, they are adding new options for transcribing multiple channels of audio in source clips. I don't think they have changed how multiple tracks work in editing. And best practices will vary in the current options depending on your material. For example, if the two speakers never speak over each other, you can mute one of them at a time and edit for the other person. Then do a static transcription of the sequence using the mix as the source and get a single transcription.

But I can think of many problems with that.

@TeresaDemel @Kerstin Ebert Any suggestions?

Stan

CGBESSELLIEUAuthor

Inspiring

Stan's answer is correct. Basically if I delete the above "empty" clip of Speaker1 the proper transcription now appears for Speaker2.

Kerstin Ebert

Adobe Employee

Hi @CGBESSELLIEU ,

Stan already suggested all the right things, do you see any difference when you mute audio track A1?

If I'm not mistaken you are using stereo audio with dialogue on either the L channel or the R channel, and in your screenshot the audio is on the L channel while the R channel is silent. You mentioned that you don't see the transcripts for different clips, do the all share the same audio setting: stereo with dialogue on L and silence on R?

If that is the case, it's possible that the transcript for channel L (on audio track A2) is not showing up because channel R occupies audio track A1. Can you confirm if that's what you're seeing?

Thanks!

Kerstin

Stan Jones

Correct answer

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See this post that I think also involved overlapping audio tracks:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/pp-captions-not-showing-transcript-until-restarted-bug-or-glitch-or-just-me/idc-p/14049042#M14160

To test this, mute Audio track 1. Then the transcription of Audio track 2 will appear.

In the public Beta version, they are adding new options for transcribing multiple channels of audio in source clips. I don't think they have changed how multiple tracks work in editing. And best practices will vary in the current options depending on your material. For example, if the two speakers never speak over each other, you can mute one of them at a time and edit for the other person. Then do a static transcription of the sequence using the mix as the source and get a single transcription.

But I can think of many problems with that.

@TeresaDemel @Kerstin Ebert Any suggestions?

Stan

CGBESSELLIEUAuthor

Inspiring

To be clear her dialogue does show up later. So it is transcribed for both speakers. It's just that clip (and multiple others) which seem to randomly be missing.

CGBESSELLIEUAuthor

Inspiring

It's happened with multiple projects. Typically many clips missing from a certain speaker.

In this screencapped example the speaker (woman in blue) dialogue doesn't even show up in the text panel.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

Does it always happen with a section of dialogue that is a problem? Or sometimes works and doesn't other times for the same sample?

If always a problem, it would be helpful to have a file sample.

Stan

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