Improvements for Transcript Window in Premiere Pro

Report · Sep 30, 2025

I have a few questions about advanced usage of the transcript window - I use transcripts as an essential part of my work flow for unscripted documentary work; but I find the transcript window to be a bit flaky & unreliable at times, but I can see the potential for how this could be a much more valuable tool for me (and other non-scripted format editors) if there were a few tweaks to the functionality.

A big user request from me would be greater flow through & adjustability of transcripts while editing (I edit using multicam clips to group dual record material, and I find that I have to match frame back though a couple of layers of material (edit sequence to multicam clip to source clip) to adjust who's speaking and split transcripted comments). Perhaps there is better functionality that I don't know about.

Also, I'd like to be able to teach the AI language model how to pronounce some words, as I find that with both technical jargon and accents (coming from a Land Down Under…), there is often the same repeated mis-transcription of the same words

And finally, I've found that when the transcript window does become upset and not behaving as expected (EG - not allowing transcript corrections or recording them), resetting my preferences for Premiere Pro is good at fixing this; but the transcript window does seem to go a bit weird much more often than almost any other window (with the exception of the marker window, which often fails to show markers)

Tech specs

MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021)

Apple M1 Max

64gb ram

Mac OSX 15.6.1

Premiere Pro 25.5.1

Report · Oct 01, 2025

@Andrew C. Brinsmead,

Upvoted.

> greater flow through & adjustability of transcripts while editing (I edit using multicam clips to group dual record material, and I find that I have to match frame back though a couple of layers of material (edit sequence to multicam clip to source clip) to adjust who's speaking and split transcripted comments).

For context, yes, to edit Speakers you must go to the Source Monitor view of the source media transcript. And as long as you do not use a static transcript, the speaker information is available to identify clip and speaker. And it is inconvenient and confusing to not be able to make those edits from the timeline/sequence/program monitor view. And edits to the text of a transcript DO edit the source transcript as well. Changes to the structure of the transcript (e.g. a "split" of a transcript segment) must be done in the source view. Changes to the sequence view are specific to that sequence.

> I'd like to be able to teach the AI language model how to pronounce some words, as I find that with both technical jargon and accents (coming from a Land Down Under…), there is often the same repeated mis-transcription of the same words

Upvote this feature request:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/transcript-including-custom-words/idi-p/14192424

And see my post for a list of other related ideas to upvote:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/transcript-including-custom-words/idc-p/15178694#M...

51 votes as of today, but no "status" and no staff response.

> when the transcript window does become upset and not behaving as expected (EG - not allowing transcript corrections or recording them), resetting my preferences for Premiere Pro is good at fixing this; but the transcript window does seem to go a bit weird much more often than almost any other window (with the exception of the marker window, which often fails to show markers)

Multicam clips pose special challenges, and I have not updated my tests on how they best work. Some out of sync transcripts and other quirks can be reset by closing and reopening the project. I reset the workspace, then reopen the project, then restart PR, then reset preferences.

Stan