Auto-Transcribe stuck on SFX - kills entire project

@liams27115992 

It sounds like you have Automatic Transcription enabled.

Go to Preferences > Transcription> Automatic Transcription and disable "Automatically transcribe clips".

- Warren

Hello @liams27115992,

I updated the status of this bug report.

Thanks,
Kevin

Every Single Time I open the project it tries to transcribe these files, and everytime I have to stop it, while PP freezes or slows down. Sometimes it crashes during this proccess. Oftentimes it also tries transcribing them again later in the day. Nothign I can do permanently resolves this. 

Disabling Auto Transcription randomly removed some existing transcripts but not all. I have since re-enabled it and offlined the trouble clips so that I can get the work I need done done. When it was off I tried to use the "transcribe source" feature but that seemed to be missing ...? 

The trouble with "Only in timeline" is that I am importing these SFX and music to use IN timelines, so as soon as I drop them in it sets off the Auto Transcribe: back to square one.

Your two suprises:

a) Yup, I have cancelled the transcription on SFX of a milk frother, police siren, and outdoor ambience about 25-50 times each now. They always come back.

b) It kills my resources to the point that editing is functionally impossible. Moving a single clip on the timeline almost crashes the whole program. It resolves immediatly soon as I turn off all transcription. 

I'm working on a deadline this week, so I don't have time to recreate the issue atm. I will get back to you when I can,

If I get a source with mixed audio, I use Apple Logic's Stem Splitter to separate the dialog so that it can be worked with as it ideally would have been delivered.

If I didn't already own Logic, I'd probably use https://www.lalal.ai (starts at $18).

Hi there - this is an area that we're looking at improving - particularly making sure that non-speech clips are not transcribed at all. While this is still being worked at, would one of the following solutions work for you?

- Disable Auto Transcription completely (Settings->Transcription->Automatically Transcribe Clips). You can of course still manually use transcription on the source clips you need or want to have transcribed. I read that you mentioned you tried that and it removed all your existing transcriptions. That should not be the case. Can you tell me how to reproduce that behaviour?

- Set auto transcription mode to "Only in timeline". While maybe not optimal - this would at least ensure that only clips that are in the timeline are transcribed. 

All that said - I am surprised about two things:
a) If you cancel a transcription on a clip, that should be sticky and that clip should not try to auto tanscribe ever again. Is that not the case for you?
b) You say that transcription is eating all your resources - normally transcription only works on a subset of your systems resources so I am surprised it has such an impact on your system. 

Can you send me (via PM or via this boad) a message that shows your system configuration and ideally a video where you can show me what's happening?