Text Panel Enhancements: Share a transcript with a colleague for correction

I was able to get both empty characters to go away by importing the corrected transcript as an unbroken wall of text. No carriage returns. No timecodes. No speaker names. PR brought the text in and everything still lined up. Good to know, but it would be great to have that adjusted.

I'm a trailer editor and this is my process: At the start of a new job we receive six to seven 20 minute clips. These are reels from an already cut feature film so there are a lot of different speakers and there are cuts imbedded in the footage (we don't have access to the original sequences used to create those reels) I import those clips into a new project. I assemble the all of the reels/cips into one long timeline - a "feature timeline" (so I can scrub and view the feature in one piece and not have to constantly remember which reel/clip something happened in) Then I use Scene Edit Detection to add cut marks at each detected cut. Then I use a pancake editing technique to pull good/useful shots (just the video, not audio) from the feature timeline into new selects timelines. The next step is to pull dialgue selects as subclips. A good transcription makes this easy - copy the text from the transcription, highlight the text (in and out marks automatically!!), create the subclip, and paste the text. No typing out of the dialogue needed. But..the auto transcripts have countless flaws - speaker names need to be added, dialogue corrected, multiple speakers in certain sections need to be split, the same speaker over multiple sections need to be merged, etc. This is a very time consuming process that can take me several days to complete - time I don't have. So while I am busy pulling the video selects, multiple assistants load the same feature reels into new projects and in Premiere, they correct the transcripts and place the corrected clips into a new project. Now I have my project with the first instance of those clips cut into various timelines (the feature timeline and my selects timelines) and I have a separate assistants' project with those same source clips but with a corrected transcript. The problem is - how do I get those corrected transcripts into my project? I can copy and paste those correct clips into my project sure. But then I have two instances of the same source clip - one correct, one not. And my feature timeline (now with thousands of add edits at each cut) is still linked to the incorrect clips. I tried exporting a .txt file of the correct transcript and then importing it back onto the incorrect clips but as discribed earlier it doesn't work properly - there are increased gaps in the interface between speakers. It's often missing the switch from one speaker to another (typically when the switch happens quickly like one word from speaker 1, then one word from speaker 2 then right back to speaker 1, etc), and it doesn't carry over speaker names despite them being correct in the .txt file. Trying to replace the old incorrect clips with the new ones is way too time consuming - remember there are now thousand of add edits in my feature timeline. It would seem like exporting as a .prtranscript would be useful in this situation but that format oddly can't be read back by Premiere (I'm not sure what use there is for that format at all because I can't find anything able to read it)

Makes sense and thanks for the help! It all reality, its two extra steps of 1) importing the final export of a video and 2) re-transcribing that version as the "source."

From there I can use this workflow to export to .txt, have it edited by another team member, then import that file back in and create captions in the new sequence to get a .srt file out of it... which I then have to convert to .vtt.

All in all a lot of steps but I see why they are necessary and still a heck of a lot faster than manual captioning!

Could you please clarify.. I have the same problema and the response does not make sense. Thanks in advance!