Transcribe

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Transcribe seems to keep getting more problems. Not sure why things keep changing for the worse. For some reason when I try to transcribe a sequence on the timeline (Premiere now always wants to transcribe the source clips -NO) it doesn't do it. Until recently, I could select my sequence on the timeline and then change the workspace to captions. Then I would select the three dots and choose Generate Static Transcript. This no longer works on its own. Nothing happens. I now have to close out Premiere and re-launch and then and only then the transcription appears. What happened? Is there a new new way to easily transcribe a sequence on the timeline?

Mitzleplick8867 · Accepted Answer

I think I get what you are saying Stan and thank you for the detailed follow-up. You are correct. Traditionally, I have gone to Captions and Graphics workspace to transcribe and then used the three dots for Generate Static Transcript. This has always worked for me until now. End of day yesterday I didn't switch the workspace. Instead, I added the Text panel to my panels and clicked Transcribe. This worked for my sequence. Typically, I don't do any video edits after transcribing. As long as I can play the sequence and make any spelling errors on the transcription as before, I should be good. I'll follow up if this isn't the case.

Stan Jones · Answer

@Mitzleplick8867,

Yes, this can still be very confusing. There has been a bug reported, that I cannot replicate, where the transcription does not seem to have occurred, but it is there on reopening the project. But most of these reports are probably user error.

> change the workspace to captions.

Are you saying that you are in a Workspace such as "Editing" and you switch to the Workspace "Captions and Graphics"? This is not necessary; if you are in sequence view (#1 in the first screenshot below), the 3-dot menu will have the option “Generate Static Transcript” (#4 in the second screenshot). If you already have a static sequence transcript, then you will see "Generate text-based editing transcript" and "Re-transcribe sequence."

If you don't see that, post a screenshot.

> using the sequence from the timeline and clicked "Transcribe" It did transcribe. It's just confusing because the window says "Source Clip" Maybe that doesn't refer to the source clips in the project bin? It also shows the original clip name for the transcription and not the sequence name on the timeline.

What you describe is that it is creating a source media transcription. See the first screenshot below. 1 - we are in sequence/program monitor view. 2 - we have one untranscribed source clip, and it is selected for transcription. 3 - that Transcribe button will initiate the source transcription.

IF that is the only clip in the sequence, or if you transcribe all the source clips in the sequence, the text result will be the same as the static transcript. But that transcript would be text-based editing, not static, and would change as you edit the video.

Stan

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