Please Put Smart Quotes in Transcriptions

[DemSign]

I waste HOURS just fixing dumb quotes in transcriptions. It’s insane that your transcription AI thinks it’s 1995.

This is the single hardest part of my workflow.

[Stan Jones]

@DemSign,

I'm trying to experiment with this, but I can't find transcription with any quote marks, just apostrophe's.

Can you provide a short sample that produces one? Just the audio is all I'd need.

Stan

[DemSign]

' is a prime or a foot mark.

’ is an apostrophe

This is the most basic of smart quote implementation. Fixing these wastes hours of my time.

I don’t know that Premiere has ever recognized actual quotes, say Bob said boo vs Bob said, “boo!” or really because Premiere doesn’t do smart quotes, Bob said, "boo!" But that’s less of a time suck because they’re much more infrequent.

[Stan Jones]

Ah, yes. How are you fixing them? At the caption stage? So far, I see no way to get any smart quote into the transcript.

I'm thinking search and replace.

Stan

[DemSign]

Export transcripts. Open in BBEdit. Educate quotes. Paste in Word. Run spelling and grammar. Fix the obvious stuff. Paste back into BBEdit. Paste one transcript block at a time back in Premiere. Make more edits as I watch video. 

[Stan Jones]

@DemSign,

Thanks; got it. And I can confirm that PASTING an apostrophe (curly single quote) into the transcript works. Typing into the text entry (even with smart quotes turned on in preferences) or the Replace box do not. And, even if we got import corrected working for you, PR converts smart quotes to uneducated upon import. 

But I think the following works. Enter an apostrophe into the Search box in the transcript. PASTE your apostrophe into the Replace box. Replace all. I note that PR's caption creation will use the straight or curly apostrophe whether the smart quotes preference is on or not.

My other thought was to wait until caption creation to make the correction. If the transcript creates straight apostrophe captions, use Search/Replace. But again, you must PASTE the correct apostrophe character, or it won't create smart quotes even with the preference set for smart quotes.

Edit to add: I recognize that you may need to use your current workflow for grammar correction or other reasons.

Stan

[hellopaul4]

I'm also wasting time fixing dumb quotes. A Find > Replace (in PPro's Text > Captions Panel) helped most of the incidents, but not anything that's actually "in quotes".