Provide a way to delete a transcription

@Stan Jones Thanks for the help!
Last time I used this, there was no translation feature yet, so I wasn't even aware. Also, I had to film people in 3 different languages, having a "default" language doesn't make much sense in that case.

The only thing that worked was:

1. restore the untranscribed version from cloud
2. change default language
3. restart
4. transcribe

Interestingly enough, even though I was prepared to manually transcribe, since re-transcribe from the clip bin never worked before, the engine automatically switched languages and did a pretty good job on horrifically pronounced English. Probably because I had it set to automatically switch languages. 

Re-transcribe never worked, in any scenario I described previously. In the transcript video, it was always greyed out, in the bin it never had any effect.

Still, no way to simply remove a transcript, and that's what this thread is about. And the truly shocking part was that my clips had disappeared from the timeline as I deleted the transcript manually - but only upon reloading the file! I could possibly have been editing happily only to find out much later the project was inadvertedly destroyed

@Corniger,

The "ignore transcript" was recommended in the post above where there were multiple transcripts and one was creating problems. You appear to have only one, so when you ignore it, it finds no dialogue.

> an automatic translation was generated. Would be nice to be asked for transcript language before simply doing it and making it impossible to undo or delete!

I assume you want a transcription, but it was done in the wrong language. In the future, be aware that, when using the AUTOMATIC transcription, you must set a new default language in preferences BEFORE the event that triggers the transription. When you select a clip or clips in the Project Panel and right-click to transcribe, it allows you to change the language.

Go back to the sequence, and uncheck "ignore transcription."

In the project panel, right-click Re-transcribe. If that is not an option, post a screenshot. Set the correct language.

Does that work?

Stan

All right, so I clicked on "Ignore transcript" and what now?

All I get in the transcript window is "No dialogue found".
I can't even undo that transcription. How do I get rid of this? I have to deliver this tomorrow and an automatic translation was generated. There's no "re-transcribe", before ignoring transcript this was present, but greyed out. Wouild be nice to be asked for transcript language before simply doing it and making it impossible to undo or delete!

Edit: yes, I also tried "re-transcribe" from the clip bin. Nothing happened. Then I went in and manually deleted the entire transcript text. "No dialogue found".
I will now render the video and try again in the rendered version. 

Edit 2: now I restarted Premiere, loaded the project and 80% of the clips are MISSING in the timeline! What the? Glad I could still pull a version from my cloud! 

Did anybody ever test this feature on usability? Sure doesn't seem like it.

@Leslie Kenehan ah, I understand how that could confuse things. Until there is a proper Delete Transcript option, you can go inside the group and right click on the camera audio and choose "Ignore Transcript". This means that for that specific sequence, the transcript for that audio is not used in the sequence's transcript.

I also could really use this option.  I transcribed footage on the camera audio by mistake when there was ISO audio.  Now in the group the transcipt is very sloppy, not able to identify who is talking.  Clearing the transcript from the camera audio would fix this.

@mattchristensen thanks for the reply! Good to hear that this need is acknowledged!

...text data is relatively tiny in terms of data storage and the Premiere Pro project format uses data compression when it is saved to disk. Text data like transcripts compress extremely well, and the compression ratio gets better the more text there is. There's no amount of transcribing you could realistically do to a 10 MB project file to make it 100 MB.

I did some more testing with the file sizes:
A project with 18 hours of footage is 0.7 megabytes
A project with 18 hours of transcribed footage is 3.2 megabytes
- These projects have just the footage and no sequences
So the ratio between a transcribed project and untranscribed projects seems to go up to 5:1 and not 10:1 as I said before. This is is much more manageable. And in most cases the ratio is even smaller (this test doesn't include sequence sizes for example). 
I did my earlier file size estimations by exporting some transcripts and the project file indeed compresses them a lot better.  

@pirttre Yes, the transcription text data does get saved into the project file. Therefore a project file with transcripts will be larger than the same project without transcripts.

However, text data is relatively tiny in terms of data storage and the Premiere Pro project format uses data compression when it is saved to disk. Text data like transcripts compress extremely well, and the compression ratio gets better the more text there is. There's no amount of transcribing you could realistically do to a 10 MB project file to make it 100 MB.

As I said before, we've heard that there's a utility to being able to delete a transcript, no debate there. I just want to make the point that the existence of transcript data in your project shouldn't be slowing it down, and definitely not because of file size.

Based on my tests the transcriptions seem to increase the project file size, which is not surprising.

I'm working on a project where if have hunderds of hours of footage. If I auto transcribe all of the footage, it might increase the project file size up to 100 megabytes for a project that might otherwise be only 10mb large, making saving and loading the project slower. I have only transcribed maybe 5% of the footage of my project and I can already notice the saving times getting longer. 

I'd really like to auto transcribe all of the footage since it speeds up reviewing the footage, but I don't know if it's worth it, if the project file gets too slow. For this reason it would be nice to have the option to delete the transcriptions.

Thank you