Provide a way to delete a transcription

Report · Mar 01, 2023

When you copy a sequence and then delete clips in it, the old transcription stays with the timeline. Sometimes I copy a timeline because it has a layout and features that I am using consistently throughout a project but am building new edits within it. I realize that creating a template is probably the best way to go, but sometimes I just want to copy another timeline with edits already in it and work from that. I'd like to be able to just completely delete the transcript that comes over with it.

Perhaps offer an option in the ... menu to CLEAR TRANSCRIPTION

I am on MacPro (M1) in PP 23.2 on Ventura

Report · May 15, 2024

Hi!

Premiere Pro 24.4 update added the feature you requested, check it out.

Text-Based Editing updates

BULK DELETE SPEAKERS FOR FASTER CLEANUP

You can now select all dialogue by a particular speaker in the transcript and choose to quickly bulk delete it from the video. It facilitates the removal of any irrelevant dialogue from your timeline, such as interviewers or other off-camera conversations in unscripted content.

see more. . .Premiere Pro feature summary (May 2024 release)

Thank you !

Report · Jul 17, 2024

I tested in 24.5.0 @Drew282889109oru's method of exporting/importing xml. It did remove the source media transcriptions - and caption tracks.

Stan

Report · Oct 02, 2024

same here. i can't delete a transcript and create a new one or change the language? why??

Report · Oct 02, 2024

That's not solving the problem at all. The request is to delete the entire transcript, not the audio track.If i got that right there is no way to do that except create a new project and import the files again, no?

Report · Oct 10, 2024

@Samuel Klein,

> i can't delete a transcript and create a new one or change the language? why??

See my earlier post regarding re-transcribing. You do not have to delete the transcript to re-transcribe.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/provide-a-way-to-delete-a-transcription/idc-p/1396...

> That's not solving the problem at all. The request is to delete the entire transcript, not the audio track.If i got that right there is no way to do that except create a new project and import the files again, no?

I think you're referring to the post about using Bulk Delete Speakers. I agree. Bulk Delete Speakers only works in the timeline (not the source media transcription), and removes the video/audio for what is deleted. The source media transcript remains, and will be added new to any sequence that adds the clip.

> there is no way to do that except create a new project and import the files again, no?'

I think that is mostly true. But what workflow would benefit from that if it really needs a Delete Transcript function.

Replace footage does not work. The transcript remains, and is associated with the new clip - even if the times do not match.

Delete the clip from the current project and reimport it. The transcript is gone.

Most of the comments in this feature request do not provide examples of workflows that need the option to delete the transcript. Most have other ways to accomplish the goal, such as re-transribing. Or the user does not understand the difference between the source media transcript (which is always the whole thing), the sequence transcript that is the parts of clips included in the sequence, and static/sequence transcripts that are created as the sequence exists at that moment and do not change as edits are made to the sequence.

Intuitively, it just seems like a good idea. Practically, I have to work through whether there isn't a way to accomplish each goal. The transcripts are coded into the project file. Oops; I turned on transcribe all files and now I want to get rid of the bloat: no way.

@TeresaDemel Is this ever likely to be included?

Stan

Report · Nov 06, 2024

Incredibly frustrating when it must be so easy to do. My file is audio only. A workaround I used just now was to export the sequence as an .mp4 and then import that as a clip and drag the clip into a new sequence.

Report · Nov 20, 2024

guess how I arrived at this post? I was looking for a simple button that would simply "Clear Transcription" as I have footage in greek transcribed as english and it's, of course, gibberish. Back to Whisper.AI then it seems...