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January 9, 2018
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Searching Dialogue in Script Schema

  • January 9, 2018
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Project: A feature length documentary film that has 28 interviews spanning over the course of at least 30 hours.

Goal: To be able to search through my footage by key words/phrases that reoccur across multiple interviews.

What I thought would work was to use Adobe Story to embed my transcripts into the clip metadata. The Script Schema seems to have everything I would want; Scene Setting, Time of Day, Action, & Dialogue. When embedding a transcript from Adobe Story it auto completes this section with all of the appropriate information, but then when choosing what metadata displays in the bins there is no option for the Dialogue field. I also tried searching the Dialogue using the Ctrl/Cmd+F function, and while "Dialogue" does appear in the dropdown choices, the program does not actually search the information.

This means that each clip individually has dialogue metadata, but without being able to view it in the bins, the keyword search-ability concept is completely gone. It just seems silly to me that if you put the transcription where it is seemingly meant to go, you have no ability to search through it across clips -- which I feel is a huge aspect to having metadata in the first place.

So I am not sure if this is a bug or maybe I'm just missing something here? Is there a different way to search metadata across clips that I'm unaware of, not understanding or not implementing properly?

And if this is just an issue with the Script Schema, how do others overcome this barrier? The concept of searching your footage by word or phrase is not foreign, as Avid implements it very nicely. Does anyone have any advice on the best way to implement my transcripts into my workflows?

Thanks in advance!

-Andrew

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    Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    January 9, 2018

    Hello Andrew,

    Thanks for the question. Hope I can help.

    Goal: To be able to search through my footage by key words/phrases that reoccur across multiple interviews.

    You would have to first have an analysis of your script done by an earlier version of Media Encoder (version 8 or earlier) as this is no longer supported by current versions. Transcribed interviews do need to be "attached" for accuracy. See this article: Using Speech analysis in Premiere Pro CC

    If you want a more modern tool that harnesses current technology for transcriptions, check out Transcriptive from Digital Anarchy: Transcriptive Premiere Pro plugin : Automatically Transcribe Video for Documentaries, Interviews, Etc. : Digital Anarchy

    Please return with any questions or mark this answer as correct if it helped you.

    Thanks,
    Kevin

    Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio