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exploringaffordances
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October 8, 2023
Question

transcription: factors that make it faster or slower?

  • October 8, 2023
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I'm wondering if there are any factors that make transcription faster or slower? (For example. what else you have running on your computer, available memory, available hard disk space, other factors?)

 

I'm currently on version 23.6, and I have the checkbox for Automatically transcribe clips checked in Preferences. Everything that I've been transcribing is in English.

 

It eventually gets there, but sometimes I just have to leave it running overnight for it to get to done. So I'm wondering if there's anything else I could be doing on my end to reduce the time required for transcription.

 

Thanks for reading! 

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its_xas1 on ig
Participant
March 28, 2024

then after that youre gonna have to insstall creative cloud and for my case it started installing the transcription english package automatically 

 

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its_xas1 on ig
Participant
March 27, 2024

hey big man, glad to be the solution here... I had a pc that was worse than yours(i5 6th gen, 16gb ram, intel intergrated graphics for sure) but the transcribe feature was working just fine and its actually the computer that made me start loving the feature. shifiting to a macbook pro this year and trying the feature only to find that its slow, telling me hours to complete, my solution was changing the transcription language to english in my case which was the language being spoken and turning on the auto detect(optional i guess). just know mine was transcribing english words to italian😩. so its now doing it in 2 minutes as usual👌.

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    alessandro_5155
    Participant
    September 5, 2024

    ti amo

     

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      exploringaffordancesAuthor
      Participant
      December 17, 2023

      As an epilogue  - I forgot the exact timing of events, but over the course of several weeks after I posted this question (thanks again Kartika and Neil for the replies), the speed of transcription improved radically. I don't think it was anything I did, and I'm guessing it was Premiere improvements. Now it works great on my machine, and it significantly changed the way I can work - thanks to all who made it happen!

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        yakuba42
        Participant
        February 22, 2024

        On latest Studio Ultra, with maximum everything, CPU, GPU, etc...

        I've got 5 2 hour theater shows, all now transcribed and I've got massive lag, like many minutes to load a sequence.  To make matters worse, matchframe to the ISO audio track to which the transcription is linked also takes minutes to load. Then if I change a speaker name from unknown to something else, it takes another few minutes to update the transcript... This is horrifying functionality given how powerful the machine is: I've got four quad splits and with 4K footage, running in real time with a lot and a bunch of audio plug-ins for premix and mastering on the fly.
        Any thoughts on this? Do I just have to work in 10 minutes scenes?

        Thanks!

        Kartika Rawat
        Community Manager
        Kartika RawatCommunity Manager
        Community Manager
        October 9, 2023

        Hi there!

        Thank you for writing in. Are you experiencing this issue with a specific project? Could you share your system details (OS, CPU, RAM, GPU)? Have you already tried resetting preferences and deleting cache files? 


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        exploringaffordancesAuthor
        Participant
        October 15, 2023

        Thanks Kartika!

         

        Thanks for the suggestion to reset preferences and delete cache files. I tried both yesterday, and neither seems to have changed the (long) times it takes to transcribe.

         

        I tried transcribing a 2 minute test clip yesterday, and it didn't finish until a few hours later. (I had it running for two hours before I went to bed, and it wasn't done at that point, but was done by morning.) I also noticed in other tests that Premiere will say "Transcribing... (a few seconds remaining...)" and be displaying that for hours.


        I'll note that I am now on the most recent version of Premiere, 24.0. My OS is Windows 10, CPU is an Intel Core i7-6560U at 2.20GHz, RAM is 16 GB. GPU is Intel Iris Graphics 540 (in the CPU).

         

        Any ideas on what may be happening?  I appreciate your time and assistance!

        R Neil Haugen
        R Neil Haugen
        Legend
        October 15, 2023

        Sorry, but I think the answer is in your computer specs. That is a truly ancient rig there ... a 2 core, 4 thread 2.2Hz CPU from 2015, past "service life" from Intel, and with only 16Gb of RAM ... Premiere is barely able to run on that rig.

         

        A modern NLE like Premiere or Resolve or Avid needs more ooomph ... it's just the way it is.

        Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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