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Speech Search/Transcription problem
Basically, the Transcribe button is dimmed so I can’t use it. I’m working on a video podcast for a church, so having a transcription of the 30 minute sermons will be a pretty nice tool for speeding up the title overlays I’ll have to do each week.
I’m shooting on a Panasonic HVX200 in 720p 24Native, copying the P2 contents to a hard drive, and importing the mxf video files from there. I try master clips from the project bin, and clips from the timeline. I’ve tried it with different footage in a different project, all to no avail.
For the podcast footage, there’s two channels of good audio direct from the sound board (line-level XLR inputs), and the on-camera mic audio (which sounds as bad as you would think) goes to audio channels 3 and 4.
…so any settings that could be messed up? Do I need to change my recording format? Do I need to convert the footage to another format before transcription?
I’m running CS4 on a MacPro Dual 3.0 Xeon, OSX 10.5.7, 10 Gigs of RAM, hundreds of gigs of local storage.
I appreciate any input y’all can give!
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Basically, you’ll have to go the the content folders (P2 footage) right click properties and uncheck the read only box (to include subfolders), that’s because the software needs to write back the data to the files.
Don’t get too excited about the results though, even with very clear audio, the result are mixed.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
thanks for the solution! I don’t need too accurate a transcription. hopefully just good enough to help me place the titles quickly…
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Of course, I read afterwards that you were on a Mac, not much in the right clicking area 🙂
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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