Speech to text

[John Rofrano]

What would you use speech to text for in FCP X? Just to search for dialog in media? It would be great for automatically closed captioning but FCP X doesn’t support closed captions. I’m just not sure what the benefit of having speech to text might be.

I would be much happier if FCP X could simply create, display, and export Closed Captions like Sony Vegas Pro can. I’d be happy to supply the text.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Oliver Peters]

[John Rofrano] “What would you use speech to text for in FCP X?”

Transcript creation, closed captioning, etc.

[John Rofrano] “Just to search for dialog in media?”

Yes, that, too, except the Adobe version couldn’t do that. The Nexidia/Avid/SoundBite version can. Opposite technologies.

Documentary editors use that function in Avid all the time (PhraseFind). For example, when you are creating “frankenbites” and need to find the same word ending a sentence with the proper inflection. Do a dialogue search for other instances of the desired word and if you find the right variation, cut it in as an audio-only edit.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Charlie Austin]

[Oliver Peters] ” For example, when you are creating “frankenbites” and need to find the same word ending a sentence with the proper inflection.”

I use Soundbite for that… works pretty well if you have a clean dialog track. It sort of works with X. I’d like to see that, as well as transcription built into X. The OS has the most of the parts to make it happen. A speech extension? I wish I was more of a coder nerd, i bet it’s do-able…

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[John Rofrano]

[Oliver Peters] “Transcript creation, closed captioning, etc.”

How do you do Closed Captioning in FCP X? I haven’t figure out how to do that yet.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Oliver Peters]

[John Rofrano] “How do you do Closed Captioning in FCP X? I haven’t figure out how to do that yet.”

I haven’t either. My answer was merely a hypothetical about something Apple could add.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[John Rofrano]

[Oliver Peters] “My answer was merely a hypothetical about something Apple could add.”

Ah, yes. Hypothetically it would be awesome. I’d be happy with just importing a text file as closed captions but I could see Apple leapfrogging and going directly to Speech to Closed Captions. That would be sweet.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Bill Davis]

Closed captioning is supported via Compressor.

Search Compressor and Closed Caption and you’ll find notations.

It supports the EIA-608 ATSC standards and the .scc file system for export.

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[John Rofrano]

[Bill Davis] “Closed captioning is supported via Compressor. “

It looks like that just muxes an already created caption file. I’m asking how do you create the caption file in the first place? My definition of “Supports Closed Captions” is the ability to create closed captions while watching your video so that you can see the captions and adjust their timing.

Sony Vegas Pro can do all this and as far as I can tell FCP X has nothing. I wrote a plug-in for Vegas Pro called VASST Caption Assistant. I’d love to write one for FCP X but FCP X doesn’t seem to have any way to add captions. (oh… did I mention I’m a software developer too) 😉

Here is what I created for Vegas Pro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sfSPKH2HTc
That’s what I want to be able to do in FCP X.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

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[Lance Bachelder]

Nice video John – the last feature I cut in Vegas was in 10 and I wish I had known about your ap. Hopefully you’ll be able to do something like someday for FCPX.

I’m really loving FCPX much more than Vegas but do miss a lot of useful features in Vegas that don’t exist in any other NLE. I only wish it hadn’t become so buggy or I still might be using it regularly.

It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Bill Davis]

Sorry, then. I misunderstood. I’ve never tried to transcribe my own work. Seems like a massive waste of time since the services have better transcriptironists and with ADA compliance at stake, theres typically a budget for captioning when required. I send the video out. They send the .scc file back to sync with the timing in place. That’s all I’ve ever needed to do.

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