Transcription Slowing Down Processing

[mattmattmayer]

Basically all the posts I can find about transcription talk about the transcription process itself being slow. But, that's not all that important to me. The help I need comes once it is processed.

I am finding that working with a large transcribed clip (1080, pro res, 1hr40min) is slowing my system in a big way. Often at times when I want it to be moving quickly (simple scrubbing, play/pause to mark and out point, etc). Even when I don't have the text panel highlighted (or even as an open panel at all), just scrubbing that clip either in the source monitor or the timeline drags everything. Transcript is useful, of course, but I need to be able to do the basic functions of editing while using the clip.

I clicked "Ignore transcript" for the clips in the timeline, and that seemed to help on the timeline. And I see I can uncheck that if needed, which is great. But in the source window there's no such toggle. Nor in the project panel for that clip.

I've got a decent system, Mac Studio M1 Ultra, 64GB RAM, Sonoma OS, running Premiere 2024 24.1.0 (build 85) which the CC app says is most current.

Anybody have experience/ideas here? Thanks very much.

[mattchristensen]

@mattmattmayer It's possible you're seeing an issue that we have a fix for in the public Beta, if you'd be up for trying that. It would be good to know if you don't see the issue anymore when working in the Beta.

To try it, open the Creative Cloud desktop application and go to Apps > Beta Apps on the left hand side and install Premiere Pro (Beta). It will install as a separate application from Premiere Pro 2024 and you can freely move projects back and forth between them.

[mattmattmayer]

I'll give it a shot and report back.

[mattmattmayer]

@mattchristensen after a quick attempt, yes it does look like it's working better. Will keep trying and report back if I run into the issue again. Thanks very much!

[mattmattmayer]

@mattchristensen 30 min in and it's moving at lightning speed, exactly as i'd hope/expect with my machine's specs. even searching the transcript is instant like searching a simple text doc. huge improvement thus far. thank you.

[mattchristensen]

@mattmattmayer Great, I'm glad to hear that. This fix will also be in the next release of Premiere Pro, so once that is out you can feel free to move to that if you'd like to get off the Beta. Thanks for giving it a try!

[mattmattmayer]

@mattchristensen I do get some lag using the type tool in the Beta, fyi.

[leonardofranke.editor]

Hi @mattchristensen, im in the mid of preparing a feature doc with quite long interview timelines of 4h +. also in theory i have 8 audio tracks in that multicam with the same audio of speech. only did transcribe one channel, but who knows what premiere is trying to do in the background.

Found myself the same problems! I wont enter the editing process with premiere i think, if I cant solve it. turning off autoscroll helped me something too. and Im hoping now generating static transcripts willl help too. 

The idea of editing text into the timeline is nice, but i guess having the video jump to the right spot is enough for me. 

Lets see what happens. 

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hello @mattmattmayer,

Are you still having trouble with this bug? Let the community know how it's going. Well, I hope!

Thanks,
Kevin

[mattmattmayer]

@Kevin-Monahan hi, thanks for checking in. i haven't had a project of the same kind, but once i was using the beta i stopped having the issue and it never came back, and then now that the next release is out, i imagine/hope it'll be good. will check in again if it re-arises. thanks!

[mattmattmayer]

@leonardofranke.editor the beta fixed it, and then the new release came out, apparently with that bug fix. i haven't had a project with the same kind of needs since, but after i was using the beta it genuinely went away and never came back on that project. new release is caught up.

smart of you to shut off autoscrolling. i'll keep that in mind in the future. in that same vein, i have found that some of the convenience features slow things down more than i expect. so if i'm ever on a project with a ton of cams/tracks (i'm talking 8 or 9 cams and like 16+ audio tracks synced up) and need some ram/processing power, i'll shut off anything unnecessary. duplicate frame markers, waveforms, etc, and i'll get back some speed that way.

[leonardofranke.editor]

im currently starting the mentioned edit, and although i just upgraded the problems stay there. im looking if maybe taking on the newest beta. im wondering at this point if i should even care or just go on with static transcript. it treached a point where i cannot edit anything because of the lag... 

its a little disappointing...