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Inspiring
December 7, 2023
Question

Text randomly doesn't update after editing transcript

  • December 7, 2023
  • 27 replies
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I've been having a few issues with the transcription engine. Namely, I'll correct a word at the beginning of a paragraph, click out and the change won't "stick" - the engine will do one of two things. Revert to the previous text or delete the word altogether and leave the three dots in brackets (...) for a pause. I have seen it happen in other parts of the paragraph, but less frequently. The behaviour is you see teh screen flash to the previous words (whihc it does even when it does update) but then never go to teh edited version.

 

This is a minor but a gotcha bug because you have to carefully watch the screen to ensure that it doesn't happen or you might think you've updated something, only for it to go to the client unchaged. (Don't ask me how I know that)

 

Apple M1 Max, 32GB RAM Sonoma 14.1.1

27 replies

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 20, 2024

Thanks, John. Noted.

 

Stan

 

Inspiring
August 20, 2024

Thanks Stan - please note this is a big project, 3 x 4K streams per multicam clip and probably a terrabyte's worth of clips imoported and I have had a memory crash while Premiere was open (I had another large project open which was probably a mistake). Put it this way - Apple's new "unified memory" is more marketing than substance. My machine has 32GB of RAM but Premiere was using 108GB! However just for sanity's sake, I have seen this happen on a much smaller project, albeit still multicam.

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 20, 2024

John, thanks for the recording. Nothing subtle there!

 

I assume a regular multicam strategy, in multicam monitor view, and source transcriptions of each clip. And you are editing in sequence view.

 

I'll try to test. The last multicam I tested, everything was behaving correctly.

 

Stan

 

 

Inspiring
August 20, 2024

FYI - same machine specs as my OP but now working on 24.5.0 build 7 and now on Sonoma 14.5 (23F79)

Inspiring
August 20, 2024

Yes and I'd like to add to it with maybe a way to replicate? This doesn't seem to happen on single video timelines but i work mostly with multicam which may explain why it's worse for me. Here's an example I video'd today (apologies for the shaky cam but I just didn't have time for a tripod) and while it's not exactly the same bug it does seem that this is now happening across a couple of projects. This is the duplication error I've mentioned. To me this whole thing looks like a memory. problem.

Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
Legend
August 15, 2024

Hi @JOHN MONDO,

Would you like to keep this bug report open, or is everything going OK now? Let the team know.

@steveignite, thanks for offering your insight. See if updating the application or installing the beta might help.

 

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
Inspiring
February 6, 2025

BTW I'd like to report this bug is getting worse and worse for me. In a project with 7 interviews, 5 of them were unusable in transcription mode. Every time I tried to edit a transcription it would corrupt passages of text. Weirdly there were also missing passages of text and text incorrectly exporting when using the .txt file format with no line breaks (only happened on two sequences out of 7 but no apparent reason) and one project even completely refused to export a .srt. In that project the sequence was 25P but the transcript time codes appeated to be in a 60 base. eg 00;01;15;59 which made no sense. There is something seriously wrong with the engine. I've reported this as a bug but nothing has been done since my OP. The only workaround is to translate to captions and edit there. 

Inspiring
August 14, 2024

Hi Stan. Yeah, I was clicking outside the box. If the bug comes back I'll try ESC and see if it's different.

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 14, 2024

@steveignite @JOHN MONDO 

 

Thanks to both of you for the reports and updates. Randomness is always tough.

 

Steve, you are exiting edit mode by clicking outside the box, yes? I assume you get the same result if you press ESC?

 

@mattchristensen These reports are odd, and I have still been unable to replicate. 

 

Stan

 

Inspiring
August 14, 2024

Thanks John.

 

I'm on PC, Windows 10. 128GB RAM, NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada, using version 24.3.0 as I had performance issues with the latest update.

Inspiring
August 14, 2024

Hi Steve

I find the problem is it's random. I used the auto transcription yesterday and editing the text worked perfectly. I did it last week and for one particular video I'd edit two words, click out and the text engine would duplicate the sentence before it - repeatedly. I ended up with multiple copies of the same sentence. My workaround in this case was to turn the text int captions and I edit the actual graphics. It's not ideal because I prefer to start with an accurate transcription I can send the client but I can always give them the .srt as text. My computer specs are in the OP. Please post yours to see if we are using similar spec'd machines.