Guide

Contents: Open a New Project | Import Audio or Video Files | Configure Transcript Settings | Editing and Exporting Transcripts | Creating Captions

Open a New Project

• Open a New Project in Premiere

• If it isn’t already set up by default, select the Window from the top menu and select Text, which should open on the top left of the interface

Import Audio or Video Files

• Drop the audio from the media browser window on the bottom left into the timeline on the bottom left

• Drag that audio into the timeline section

Configure Transcript Settings

• With the first Transcript tab open on the Text window, you will be given a prompt that says “do you want to auto transcribe media?” Instead, select the ellipses on the top right of the transcript window and then select Generate Static Transcript

• This will open a window where you can specify the language of your media and whether you would like to differentiate speakers in your transcript. If you have only one speaker on a recording, confirming this will keep the platform from looking for other speakers.

• Depending on the length and language of the audio, processing should take between 5-15 minutes on a Mac device (longer on a PC)

• Once completed, you should have timestamps, generic speaker names (Speaker 1, Speaker 2, etc.) and dialogue

Editing and Exporting Transcripts

• While Adobe Sensei is one of the better transcription models we’ve tested, you will run into errors depending on the quality of the recording and the similarity of the speaker’s voices

• To edit the speaker names (which default to Speaker 1, Speaker 2, etc.) select the ellipses to the left of the dialogue, edit or add additional speakers

• To edit the dialogue, simply double click whichever passage need configuring

• While cleaning up dialogue is easy to do in Premiere, if you need to combine dialogue sections or create new fields, these will need to be done in a spreadsheet or document

• To export, click the ellipses on the Text window, find Export and choose either CSV for a spreadsheet or TXT for a document

Creating Captions

• First, select the CC Create Captions button in the Transcript window

• This will open a Create Captions module that will have some options for formatting, spacing and how many lines you would like the captions to display as

• This will create a caption track, displayed above the video track on the timeline. To adjust the font, size and area that the captions will be displayed, select the entire track of dialogue in the timeline, then select Window from the top menu, then Workspaces, then Captioning and Graphics.

• To add a translated caption, select the Caption Translation button, then configure the correct source language as well as what you would like the language to be translated to

• Finally, adjust the positioning of the captions so they don’t overlap. In this case, I have configured both caption tracks to display in two lines. By adjusting the Set Vertical Position of the Spanish language track to -60.00, this lifts the text up over the English language while still being generally oriented at the bottom of the display. Setting this to -30.00 should work if you chose to have captions generate in a single line display.

• To export these captions, select Export from the top left. Within this menu you can adjust your file name, export destination, and choose to export as a video, audio, gif or image file in the Format section (default will be mp4, which is a solid, lower file size option). When you have everything configured, select the Export function in the lower right hand corner.

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