Text-Based Editing Not Working?

[Chad22158382h0cg]

Trying the new Text-Based Editing in 23.4. 

However, it does not appear to be working correctly... or at all.

I have a clip on sequence that has been automatically transcribed. I can go to the "Transcript" window, and highlight text. I can right-click on the text and all options appear - Cut, Delete (Ripple), Delete, etc. When I choose "Cut", for example, the text does not cut in the "Transcript" window and no cut is made in the sequence.

Same issue if I load the clip in the "Source" panel. I can hightlight the text, right-click to show the "insert" and "overwrite" options, but neither function inserts the clip into the timeline.

[Mirna Falcón]

Hi, you have to be sure that this button is on (V2 in this case)

I hope this works for you. 

[chris23323758g9v1]

this is what was wrong thank you, that v2 has to be clicked on for the text edit to work!

[kcgrafix7]

This was 100% what was wrong! Thank you so much. Such an easy fix and I was just going crazy trying to figure it out!!!!

[Simon3447573816x2]

OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO F MUCH THIS IS WHAT WAS WRONG!

[lesiadesign]

This fixed it for me!! Thank you!!

[MJedit]

Unfortunately my Automatically set in/out points  can't be switched on/off, they're not turning blue no matter what I do. This feature worked once for me but is no longer working, even after a restart. I'm cutting interviews so coul really do with it. Follow active monitor  is also slected as suggested.d

[Stan Jones]

@MJedit,

Frustrating!

A screenshot with the text panel and timeline showing would help.

What isn't turning blue?

Can you see the (subtle) difference in the {} being on/off?

Stan

[MJedit]

Ah, I get it now, many thanks. But boy that's very subtle, could the toggle on not be lit blue for clarity, like when you hover over it?

OFF

ON

[Stan Jones]

@MJedit,

I completely agree. While some of the confusion about the "automatically set in/out" is the newness of the workflow, part of it is also the UI design. It is the one button in that row that is a toggle state, not a button you click to do something (split, edit, create captions, etc). Most of the toggle state buttons are in the 3 dot menu or the relatively new "Transcript View" menu.

The look we're more used to is, for example, the icons at the top of the timeline area; each one turns blue for on.

I do not see a feature request to change this.

Stan

[idanl33775928]

Hello everyone, it took me a moment to understand what is meant by "automatically activating the ins and outs". So I am attaching a screenshot for anyone who is a bit slow like me 😀. Thank you all very much for the explanations. It worked and I agree it is indeed an amazing tool to work with

[verapichardo]

Ok so here's what worked for me. Once you have your video in the timeline, go to the text panel and you'll see three dots (...) click on them and there's an option that says Generate text editing transcript or something like that. It then let me select, copy, cut, etc the transcript and the video was being edited at the same time.