Adobe’s Transcription and Text Editing is a Disaster

[RonyDesign]

This  Adobe transcription and text editing tool is an absolute idiot of software, a complete piece of trash that exists only to waste your time. Every time you try to correct a word, edit a sentence, the  thing doesn’t save, crashes, disappears, and makes you want to pull your hair out. It feels like it was made by people who never actually had to work with video, just to make you lose 100 days on something simple. It’s a glitched mess, disguised as a tool, and anyone sane would go insane trying to use it. It’s frustrating, infuriating, , a nightmare insisting on being called Adobe Premiere, and I swear I’ve never seen software more idiotic and useless for editing text than this.

I think I’m just going to stick with my CapCut account

Editing a short sentence is an enormous struggle, something that should be simple. This Adobe crap should go bankrupt.

This disaster needs to fail.

Is it really so hard to make a decent text editing box????????

Apaid tool that never updates for the better.

I click on the Edit Transcript, I edit it and leave, and when I check, the text is the same.

[Multiple profanities removed by moderator]

[RobShultz]

If you spent as much time explaining the problems and giving system specs as you do on your dramatics we might be able to help you find a solution.

[R Neil Haugen]

Filmed a bunch of interviews a week ago, sat down to transcribe to do an edit from the transcrition yesterday.

A few words were missed ... otherwise, it worked great. So I can't replicate your issues.

And as Rob mentions, if you'd spent the time telling us the specifics, we might either have been able to get you working, or alternatively prove a specific bug.

Can't do either at this time.

[John Waller]

Lots of vitriol. Little for us to go on.

Can you provide system specs and some reproducible steps? Even a video so we can see what you're doing would help.

[T - Sal]

Premiere Pro’s Text-Based Editing is designed to streamline the workflow by linking your transcript directly to the timeline. To make sure your edits are applied, confirm changes in the Transcript panel or regenerate captions after corrections. For larger projects, exporting and re-importing captions is also a great way to keep everything consistent.

[RonyDesign]

To everyone who commented, I thank you, and to those who asked for more information to help, I thank you.
BUT, I don't want any help, because if I did, I would go to YouTube or Adobe's own forum.
What I am questioning here are this company's HORRIBLE, RUBBISH, and OUTDATED tools in the INFORMATION AGE and advanced technology with artificial intelligence.
I MENTIONED CAPCUT, with its quick and easy text editing. No need to export, and if I want to export only the SRT or TXT, I can do it with one click. IT'S SUPER EASY.
You are defending a wretched company that is DYING, <crude language removed>
May it go bankrupt. And I am learning to use it to BUY the WONDERFUL DAVINCE RESOLVE, but the learning curve is keeping me stuck in the TRASH called Premiere.
TRASH TRASH

[John Waller]

Most people post here for help, not just to rant. We thought you were seeking help too.

Posting rants here goes nowhere.

BUT, I don't want any help, because if I did, I would go to YouTube or Adobe's own forum.

By @RonyDesign

This IS Adobe own forum.

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You are defending a wretched company that is DYING

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We get that you don't like Premiere Pro but FYI, Adobe is experiencing record growth.

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[R Neil Haugen]

I work for/with teach pro colorists. Been "around" the uppers of the pro colorist community really since NAB 2014. So I work in Resolve, have since ... 12? something like that. And I teach colorists how to work with Premiere's color management, do conform/out of Pr into Resolve ... and even some things in Resolve, especially as far as using Tangent Elements panel and their new Warp Drive software.

I've got a lot of experience in both, shall we say? And major time with power users of both, way above my skills. And yes, I've always used the "Studio" full version of Resolve.

They both have good things and not so good. Resolve is probably never going to accept ProRes RAW, don't even try to discuss it with their staffers ... that pretty much ends any discussion. And they're never going to allow any user customization of workspaces. If you like their standard UI fine, if you don't, tough. 

Premiere allows a ton more user customization, and has still quite a few more user settable keyboard shortcuts (especially in editing work) than Resolve. That said, Premiere's got some pro media misses too. It's a pick your troubles thing. 

While Resolve has a marvelously detailed 4,000 plus page manual, much bigger and more detailed than Premiere ... there isn't any index, and BlackMagic uses as many "in-house" terms for things as anyone I've ever seen. So if you don't know what they call a generally used tool, good luck ... you might be reading the odd hour or five to find it.

"Masks" .... no, you have to go to power windows. Right. Whatever.

Both those apps, and Baselight, the other top-end grading app, and Avid, and Nuke and whatever ... all have long and steep learning curves. For many newer to video editing, Capcut and Premiere Elements and other similar things are faster as they automate so many things for the user. And therefore are fast to use, for what they can do.

The pro apps do not automate most things, that's just starting to come in, as pro workers have normally wanted absolute total control of everything and every effect. This startles most noobs, as they expect the pro apps to be even more automated, rather than it being the other way around. But you can do things in all the pro apps way past what any of the prosumer apps can do.

All of these are simply tools, though ... fancy hammers is what I call them. I don't care about the brand on the hammer if it does the job I want, and I don't yell at hammers. Pick your hammer, and be happy with it.

And yes, Adobe is actually increasing paid customers rather handsomely ... as is Resolve.

[RonyDesign]

Mr. Neil, first of all, please forgive me for my rudeness in the comment that started this discussion.
I am truly sorry.

Thank you for contributing your knowledge and wisdom.

I understand what you mean about “automation.” You understood exactly what I meant and provided all the details about Davince Resolve.

But my issue with Adobe is, I don't know if this happens to anyone else, even though it's wonderful that it allows me to move my timeline from side to side, up or down, for example.

Have you noticed that there is very little space to see the audio or video tracks (even though I have three screens, I have to keep adjusting, which doesn't happen with simple cuts in Capcut, for example)?

Okay, the program will never be perfect for everyone, but it's incredibly ridiculous and archaic the way Adobe has its text editing “organization.” For me to create a “Hello everyone” with a highlighted shadow and a yellow color, for example, and with certain sizes, and choose a decent font, is simply a nightmare.

It's revolting. I understand that After Effects is another program, for other functions, but why not use the same text editing logic from After Effects in Premiere so that people can speed up their “simple creations”?

I'm referring to simple creations, cutting 2 or 3 scenes and simple text.

But they insist on staying in the prehistoric era.
Once again, I apologize and thank you for your insightful comment.

[R Neil Haugen]

Hey, I've posted truly epic rants here myself on occasion ... no problem.

There are a good number of complaints about extra, wasted space in several of the panels. Which are quite accurate, really. A very valid complaint. The inability to set font size, when the native fonts on the panels is so freaking small, is another very valid issue. Which makes it hard for many users.

So pointing out there are problems here is actually a very good thing ... as oft noted, it's better to do it professionally politely, with details about what is a pain and why, and what would be the specific 'cure'.

I upvote a ton of those Idea posts, even ones I'll never use ... if it looks like something others might really benefit from.

And at times, a rant keeps us from having to buy a new monitor because we threw something at it ... 😉