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inquisytor
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June 5, 2021
Question

Remove Auto Scroll & Double Click Function in Transcript & Caption

  • June 5, 2021
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I would like to suggest Adobe to include an option to disable the auto scroll function in the transcript and caption (text) panel. As much as it's convenient for the caption to scroll according to the playback time, but it's annoying when you try to edit a previous or next caption, and the caption keeps move up and down while you click.

 

The other issue is the double click to edit. It's a waste of time. And it's buggy too. Sometimes, double clicking doesn't work, and I have to click back and forth to get it to work. It's more apparent when it's at the end of the sequence.

 

I really love how the subtitle now enjoys the same clip editing method as video clip. But I still very much prefer the old way of editing the text in subtitle.

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    steveignite
    Inspiring
    February 9, 2023

    Totally agree. The auto scroll is so slow and annoying it makes it really hard to select the caption that you actually want to edit. It's like a computer game trying to move your mouse and double click it as it scrolls. It feels like it's not really been tested as it's such an obvious issue.

    Alexander Riss
    Adobe Employee
    Alexander Riss
    Adobe Employee
    February 10, 2023

    Thank you for your feedback. The auto scrolling can already be disabled by clicking the "..." overflow menu and un-checking the "auto scroll" option.

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    steveignite
    Inspiring
    February 10, 2023

    Thanks!

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    peterw64906991
    Participating Frequently
    June 5, 2021

    Fully agree. Let me preface my comments by saying I really do like the new features. The recognition is perhaps 90% accurate (for Irish-accented English); which still leaves a lot of editing, but far less than typing it all out. Also, having the text highlighted word-by-word as the timeline plays is great.

     

    BUT caption (and transcript) editing is painful, for a few reasons.

    The caption/transcript text changes font and size when you double-click to edit. This means you lose sight of the word you wanted to edit. Multiply this by hundreds of edits and it gets old, fast!

    And auto-scroll is a nightmare while editing. Sometimes you're editing the end of one caption and the start of another, and the rows dance up and down as you double-click here and there.

    Could Return be made an option as the default "finish editing" key, rather than return? shift-return could add a line break (but I've never needed that).

    Perhaps the screen could scroll page-by-page, rather than continually?

     

     

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