Transcribe a clip and use the Text Window to copy

Question

In Version 23.4 when I use the new Transcribe tool in the text window for text based editing sometimes I need to "Copy Paste" text content for usage in graphics. I cannot find a way to actually copy any text in the text window. I can highlight the text, but the menu items for Copy are grayed out. Can anyone else confirm this? I know I can export the entire transcription to a document, open that and copy, but it would be very useful to be able to copy text, then paste it into other dialogs, like a lower third graphic.

Richard van den Boogaard · Answer

I can confirm that you cannot directly copy/paste the text to a text layer super-imposed on the sequence.

However, this work-around works: export the transcript as a text file. Open that text file (e.g. in Notepad) and copy/paste the preferred words into a new text layer in PPro.

The only reason for Adobe to gray out Copy/Paste in the Edit menu, is because users may get confused in terms of the behavior. Using the context-menu on transcript text allows for text-based editing, with similar copy/paste commands. However, you do not wish to copy/paste parts of the sequence (audio and video), but merely the transcribed text.

Hope this helps.

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