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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
    Community Expert
    Stan JonesCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community 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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      Danny25030131kgg0
      Participant
      January 11, 2024

      Just wasted untold amount of time trying to figure out why I suddenly was not able to re-transcribe sequence as I've done for a long time now. Why would the feature say "sequence" when it's really transcribing source? Why wouldn't I be able to re-transcribe source anyway? It's definitely programmers and not actual editors making the decisions over at Adobe. Premiere can do a lot, but for the amount of known bugs you ignore and the poorly designed features you roll out... Really takes the joy out of editing.

        Stan Jones
        Community Expert
        Stan JonesCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        May 23, 2024

        I don't get it. Your reply don't seem to connect with my message.

        I want to transcribe portions only of the videos when I add them into a sequence, and I do not want premiere to transcribe from the whole source file for text-based editing transcription because it takes a lot of time. I want to know if there's any option to do what I need to simply transcribe for text-based editing JUST the portion of a source file that I add in a sequence because to my knowledge it only can be done for static transcription.


        @mauamolat,

         

        Right. Thanks for that clarification. I think this is a "feature request." I do not know of one. If you make one, post it here so we can upvote.

         

        There may be workarounds, but I suspect they involve so much work that you might as well just transcribe the whole clips.

         

        Workaround 1.

        Add a clip to a sequence by itself. Adjust in/out in the source monitor or after getting in the sequence. Create a static transcript. Nest that sequence when you want to use the clip. It will behave like a source media transcript.

         

        Workaround 2.

        Create a subclip of the portion of the clip you want. To transcribe just that portion, you must set it to "Restrict trims to subclip boundaries." If you do not, it will create a transcript of the whole clip. Right-click in the Project Panel and transcribe. If that clip has been transcribed before, you will pick re-transcribe. You CANNOT use a previous transcription; the timecodes will be wrong. Now Edit Subclip and Convert to Source Clip (this sets the timecode to start at zero; otherwise, the source transcript will not be seen by a new sequence you add it to, and you get "No dialogue."

         

        Regarding subclips, see this thread:

        https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/text-based-editing-sequence-doesn-t-match-clips-sequence-incomplete/idc-p/14594428#M25935

         

        Stan

         

         

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