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Jillian27388433z312
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May 18, 2023
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How to transcribe sequence, not source files?

  • May 18, 2023
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Hi!

All of a sudden, when I go to transcribe my sequence, the only option is to transcribe the entire source clip. 

I'm just taking snippets of interviews and adding captions for social media. These can be hour long interviews, and I'm just trying to get the 1-2 minutes I've outlined in my sequence.

 

Anyone have any ideas here? 

Correct answer Stan Jones

Jillian,

 

You're in the Beta forum, which has had the Text-based editing process for a while. It just hit the release version with 23.4.0.

 

To use your old method, ignore all the source media transcription invitations, select your sequence in the timeline, go to the Text Panel -> Transcript Tab. Click the 3 dots and pick Static Transcript.

 

If that doesn't work; ask further.

 

Here are the FAQs for the new process:

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/text-based-editing-faq.html

 

And, when you have time to explore, you may find that the new process will be very nice!

 

Stan

 

2 replies

braydon
braydon
Inspiring
August 25, 2024

Add me as a +1 for dissatisfied users of this feature. What used to take less than a minute to auto-transcribe a 5 minute sequence now takes over twenty minutes - and that's not including all the time burned by the learning curve (especially the trap of transcoding all source material instead of just the sound-bites on the timeline). 

 

Honestly, I could just about make captions faster manually. Please Adobe, just go back to how it was before.

Stan Jones
Stan JonesCorrect answer
Adobe Expert
May 19, 2023

Jillian,

 

You're in the Beta forum, which has had the Text-based editing process for a while. It just hit the release version with 23.4.0.

 

To use your old method, ignore all the source media transcription invitations, select your sequence in the timeline, go to the Text Panel -> Transcript Tab. Click the 3 dots and pick Static Transcript.

 

If that doesn't work; ask further.

 

Here are the FAQs for the new process:

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/text-based-editing-faq.html

 

And, when you have time to explore, you may find that the new process will be very nice!

 

Stan

 

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    Red Letter Films
    Known Participant
    June 6, 2023

    Hi Stan

     

    When I do a source media transcription it doesn't seperate the speakers in the same way the old static transcription did. I can't seem to find preferences that allow me to select language, source tracks etc. What am I missing?

      Stan Jones
      Stan Jones
      Adobe Expert
      June 6, 2023

      Red Letter,

       

      Edit -> Preferences -> Transcription and be sure you have speaker separation set there. If it shows "Select an option," it is not set. You can set it there by turning on "Automatically transcribe clips," setting speakers to "Yes, separate speakers," and then turning off "Automatically transcribe clips."

       

      I have not discovered exactly when source transcription does not show the dialogue that includes speakers. I think it is mostly for auto-transcription.

       

      When you get the "Create source media transcription" dialogue, you get the actual "Separate speakers" option. And then it works.

       

      Stan

       

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