Transcibe Fail If 1st Audio Channel of File is Empty?

[Path 88 Productions]

Seems to be throwing the trascribe completely outta whack.  Only workaround was to export a stereo clip of my multi-channel audio file and replace source footage with the newly created audio.

Also, can Premiere be told to NOT analyze all multiple channels in a file?  In this example (see attached) the audio guy gave us a file with 1 channel of audio, but there's 4 empty channels.  I obviously only need Premiere to spend time on channel 2, for instance.

At any rate, is anyone else getting weird transcribe behavior if channel 1 is empty?

[Path 88 Productions]

An even more frustrating situation I'm running into:

The audio I need to be transcribed is on channel 3.  The audio Premiere actually creates the transcription for is channel 1, which is the producer and audio guy whispering some nonsense to each other. 

Unfortunately, over on channel 3 the words I need can't be aquired as part of the source file trascription.  Well, at any rate I'm not sure how to do it.

[Stan Jones]

@Path 88 Productions,

I submitted a feature request to address source media transcription only transcribing audio track 1:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/audio-track-selection-for-source-media-transcripti...

I describe workarounds there.

Did you post a bug report on the "PR is processing all audio tracks even if it only transcribes audio track 1" issue? I don't have a note of it, and yours is the only report I've seen on it.

Stan

[Trevor_Asq]

Just came across a similar issue. Dealing with source files with multiple language commentaries, A1&2 is clean fx, A3&4 English, A5&6 French etc.

Subclipping and/or adjusting audio mapping has no effect - only audio on channel 1 of the source file is transcribed. 

Workaround is to put into sequence and do static transcript - which works pretty well TBH but it would be great to be able to transcribe multiple languages.

[Path 88 Productions]

Yeah, it's more than a little absurd to have Premiere spend a lot of time looking at every single track in a 6 track audio file if all it's gonna do is give you a t'script from track 1.   --and often times track 1 is not what's needed.

Seems like an easy enough feature to implement moving forward is to allow the end user to choose which track to transcribe when dealing with muiltiple track audio files.