transcribing source clips in one project and consolidating duplicate non-transcribed source clips in

[KazuTa]

I work at a company where our server is not shared storage, so editors work off of external hard drives.

The Mac connected to the server is a Mac Mini 2024 (M4 Pro chip), so it crashes when I try to do transcriptions.

The editor did transcriptions on his Mac Studio 2023 (M2 chip), so the source clips in his project have transcriptions, whereas the source clips in my project do not.

Is there a way to "consolidate" his source clips with my source clips so that his transcriptions get applied to my source clips?

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hello @KazuTa,

Thanks for the question. I'm not sure if there's a workflow for doing what you want. Perhaps @Stan Jones might have an idea. If not, we'd have to get an engineer on the thread. I hope the community can get a response for you shortly. Sorry for the problem. Take care.

Thanks,
Kevin

[KazuTa]

@Kevin-Monahan Thanks for looking into this.

[Stan Jones]

@KazuTa,

The transcriptions are in the project file. I assume you and your coworker are not working on copies of the same project, or are you? That would only require that you get a copy of the project file after the transcriptions are done.

But if you are sharing source files but not a project file, that is different. These are plain projects, not part of a productions environment or teams etc?

Bottom line: you need a better machine! lol. But let's brainstorm. I did not carefully proofread this; I hope I got it right!

If there were very few clips, you/he could export, from his machine, the transcript from each clip. This is the proprietary .prtransccript file from the 3 dot menu in the Text Panel/transcript tab. Then open each clip on your machine in the Source Monitor, switch to the Text Panel/transcript tab, 3 dot menu, and import the transcript to yours. It is called import "static transcript," but it is the clip that will get it, not a sequence. More than a few files? Too labor intensive.

I tested opening 2 projects at the same time, one with clips with transcripts, and one with no clips. That was simple; when I drag the clip-with-transcript to the new project, it comes in with the transcript. So if you start a project, get a project from  him with all the clips already transcribed. BUT to get his project open on your machine ... it has to be from his harddrive, right? Otherwise, it will ask to relink the files and there's no relationship to his project?

To describe that problem a different way, if I have a file in my project xyz.mp4 (let's call it version 1), and I import the identical file xyz.mp4 from his project (version 2), version 1 will still not have a transcript, and version 2 will.

I created a project on Drive A with files there. Then I copied all the files to Drive B, including the project file. I renamed the folder on Drive A so PR couldn't see it. (I closed PR so it was not open when I was moving files.) PR opened the project, the files had transcripts, and "Reveal in Explorer" showed the files were on Drive B. If I did not rename the folder on Drive A, the project, even though it had been moved to Drive B, opened the files on Drive A.

In your case, the project file would have been copied to your drive, and the original files would be on his drive, not connected to your machine. So no problem.

I think this might work if your file were already in sequences and had been edited.

Let us know if you play with this.

Stan

[KazuTa]

@Stan Jones It may not be that I need a better machine, but perhaps Premiere's transcription tool isn't 100% tested the M4 Pro chip yet.

I opened the project with the transcriptions on it, opened an audio clip that's been transcribed in the source monitor, then went to the Text tab. It says "No content found". I tried creating a new sequence with the audio clip. When I click on the three dots in the Text tab, my Export options are greyed out:

[Stan Jones]

@KazuTa,

Thanks for the response.

> It may not be that I need a better machine, but perhaps Premiere's transcription tool isn't 100% tested the M4 Pro chip yet.

Sorry; I was just reacting to your comment. I forgot to come back and comment further. Even though many users are transcribing without problems, there are a variety of reports about transcription issues. The ones I experienced are part of the D2D drawbot threads; I'm Win10. But I would work on getting the transcription problem sorted.

> I opened the project with the transcriptions on it, opened an audio clip that's been transcribed in the source monitor, then went to the Text tab. It says "No content found".

This is with just his project copied to your drive? Is it "No content" or "No dialogue." I won't be able to work on this till later.

> I tried creating a new sequence with the audio clip. When I click on the three dots in the Text tab, my Export options are greyed out:

I need to look at this further. A screenshot of the whole Text panel might help.

Stan

[KazuTa · Accepted solution]

@Stan Jones Your request to see the whole Text panel was the key! The Text panel was on the "Graphics" tab. When I clicked on the "Transcript" tab, I was able to export a static transcript from my editor's project and import it onto my source clips. Thanks for hanging in there with me, Stan!