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As you saw in my earlier post about text panel enhancements, transcripts are becoming more central in editing workflows. Starting today in Premiere Pro (Beta) you can create rough cut edits from selected Text passages.
To start, you can generate transcripts of your footage in the background when you import your media. Alternatively, you can generate transcripts from the Text panel after your project has been created. Either way, the Sequence transcript panel dynamically syncs with your Timeline: as you make changes in your Sequence transcript, the Timeline will reflect your changes – and vice versa.
My colleagues and I created some starter footage for you, as well as a tutorial so you can try it out. If you tend to do all of your editing in a Sequence, follow the guidelines below and/or watch this tutorial. If you tend to do three-point (Source) editing, follow the guidelines below and/or watch this tutorial.
Sequence Editing Workflow
Three Point (Source) Editing Workflow
Stay tuned, because we have more coming this year
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Great new workflow! By now the UI has slightly changed from what is shown in the tutorials: I like that there is now an insert button right in the transcript tab.
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Thanks for your feedback, Tilman! We also added the "Overwrite" button next to "Insert", and you can set keyboard shotcuts for these in the Keyboart Shortcut Editor.
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Hi Kerstin,
I'm really loving the new text-based editing functionality. What would be useful to create a very simple assembly from a transcript is the ability to have an "Append" button/shortcut (next to the Insert and Overwrite buttons) to allow the highlighted text to be added to the end of the assembly sequence (so a function to ensure the playhead is always placed at the end of the last clip on the sequence and clear any in and out points that might be set).
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I find the transcript text a little difficult to highlight, but I think I've found a decent workflow that is useful for handling interviews in documentary work: https://youtu.be/-6CoX3ED988
Please let me know what you think and let me know if I have misinterpreted anything. I teach Premiere and I'm trying to stay up to date on anything new coming down the pipe.
Thanks!
Buck
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Buck,
Very nice tutorial. And as you note, this is a huge advance.
I was still on 23.3.0 Build 2, and after watching your tutorial, I updated to Build 15. Generally, I'll say that they are making changes so fast it is hard to settle on a workflow - and that's good, because the bugs are coming and going just as fast! The tutorials in the original post in this thread are getting difficult to follow because the UI has changed so much.
@TeresaDemel Keep up the good work and pass on the kudos to all the staff! I know you won't be ab le to tell us when this feature is close to being ready for the release version. But there have been so many changes, I need some motivation to focus on testing it more intensely!
Buck, a few comments about things I noticed in your tutorial. I don't know why the "Automatically set In/Out points" indicator sometimes seems not to stay on. But just now, it was on when I started and never went off. I did not have to click it each time. I wonder if it is related to your transcript losing focuse and requiring you to click back in. The "on" state of the icon is reasonably clear, but it lights up so bright when you click it, I was never sure. Also, clicking it does NOT turn it off! lol. I suspect it is one of those bugs that coming and going as I said.
The "text based editing" Workspace is new. I prefer the panel arrangement they were using earlier - probably back to the tutorials. I had created a custom workspace for that purpose. See screenshot below. Across the top, Transcript, Source Monitor, Program Monitor. The HUGE advantage over the new one is that you stay in the source clip transcript after adding each edit to the timeline. The size of the monitors doesn't matter as long as they are both on the screen. I have not played with the manual monitor switching. The "Follow Active Monitor" option is working great.
The Progress Dashboard also appears new. When it is "off," you can see the "Open Progress Dashboard" icon easily. When the dashboard is "on," the icon is almost invisible. But it is there. And even though its tooltip still says "Open Progress Dashboard," it will turn it off.
I left the Progress window in my custom workspace because I was testing why transcripts persisted for clips that were not even in my active project. In the end, once you've added clips and transcription is complete, it won't be needed.
Stan
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Hi, I'm new here. I stumbled across this community thread because I was trying to learn more about the new transcription editing functionality in Premiere Pro Beta. First, kudos to the devs and team behind this. It's amazing!
I have some questions, though. I noticed that Descript seems to have a competitive edge in this space because they have full text-to-speech and overdubbing features. As a content producer who used to spend hours and hours cleaning up my audio on Audition or Premiere Pro, I find their services to be incredibly attractive.
I was wondering if Adobe is exploring these same features, whether via Premiere Pro or Adobe Podcast. I love Adobe and wish I could do all content production using its CC suite, but other AI apps like Descript seem to offer much more right now. Sometimes I produce video content for YouTube that is basically just me reading my blog posts while showing graphics/visuals of what I'm speaking about (but in which I do not appear on screen). So having text-to-speech in my own voice would basically save me countless hours of content production. Descript seems to already offer this whereby you can read their script and it can clone your voice so that you can automate audio from text. I can copy my blog posts into there and produce audio in my own voice automatically, rather than spend hours of recording, editing, enhancing, etc. I was just wondering if the Adobe team is currently working on similar features, and if so when could we expect them to go into Beta release?
Thank you kindly for your thoughts.
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Awesome feature! What we really need is to be able to undock the Source and Program monitor transcripts seperately so both can be viewed simultaneously. We also need to be able to copy and paste from the source transcription to the program transcription rather than just within the program transcription or using inserts. We should not have to switch between transcription windows to copy text from one to the other.
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I agree - this would be very useful feature to add.
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Agreed here again - whereas @Kerstin Ebert you showed me the button at the bottom left to toggle one or the other, it would be much more useful to have 2 text windows show up (much like there is a separate Audio Clip Mixer and Audio Track Mixer), for the source & sequence respectively - and the ability to entirely copy and paste or drag and drop text between them.
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Love that this functionality has been added!
First thing I'm looking for, and I'm not sure if I can find it, is an option to turn either turn off the repopulating of the "Transcript" window when going back and forth between the source and sequence monitor (or create the ability to show separate SOURCE and SEQUENCE transcripts). It takes it a few moments to repopulate and sometimes causes confusion. When going through transcripts quickly and trying to slam things into the timeline, I'd like to have constant eyes up on my source transcript window, searching for words. The sequence transcript I'm not so concerned about in this working phase.
Similar to another newly popular piece of consumer editing software that's leveraging AI to do some amazing things but doesn't play nice with Adobe: would like to see more AI automation tools added: in a sequence, add ability to automatically identify & remove 'ums and ahs', remove silence, remove any other specific words typed in, with adjustability of space between these 'auto edits', selectible by in-out range. Or conversely, ability to type in a sentence and assemble the words from the transcript, helpful for quickly condensing. Yes it will be abused, yes people are doing it anyway, yes there is other software that already speeds up this process, so let's at least give the pros that leg up.
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Hello,
thank you for yoour feedback!
One thing you can do is to lock the view on the source transcript (instead of automatically switching between source transcript or sequence transcript whenever you switch between Source Monitor and Program Monitor/Timeline).
Just uncheck the "Follow active monitor" option and click on the "Show Source monitor transcript" icon. This will lock your view on the source transcript.
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Learning something new today, thank you!
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I suggested that feature last year and I am so glad you guys when ahead with it. Can't wait to try it.
Document style editing will also be a game changer when it releases. Only thing that would be great is to have better transcription for language other then English.
I tried to run hour long interviews in French-Canadian and the word recognition was having some issues.
Thx guys. Can wait for this to hit public.!!!
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What is REALLY needed is the ability to import text and then have that chunked with timings for placement in a transcript for captions. This is absolutely required when working with a teleprompter and the text already exists. As it is now, Premeire has to listen to the audio and create a transcript from that, but this always results in lots of mistakes that then have to be fixed manually, which is really time consuming. For example, when uploading a video to YouTube, they have long given the option of uploading a text file that they then chop up and create the timing for when making captions. It is really fast. So this is not something new. Again, the issue arises whenever someone is reading from a teleprompter, and the text already exists.