Teaching Premiere custom words for transcription/captioning

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Mark,

Problem with IA transcriptions, are just that. They keep getting better, but not perfect.
Even spell checkers won’t know the difference in context between “hear” and “here”.

I would suggest that you look around for a third party transcription that will allow you to copy and paste in to Premiere Pro.

Or, if you have the luxury, get an assistant or colleague to do the changes manually.

Maybe consider alternatives like AVID or Davinci?
Just for a test to see if they do a better job of it.

I am currently on what I hope will be my last ever job on Premiere – both Davinci Studio and AVID MC will initially be steep learning curves, but can’t be worse that what I currently experiencing. Where it kills the whole project because of issues with Windows 11 and NVidia.

At least Adobe sometimes gives me a window to write messages to the engineers – words that can not be repeated here. But they might as well get rid of the other engineer, and just keep the one they left behind working, before they moved all of them to work on Adobe Express…

Rant over – keep persevering, and you’ll get there.

Atb
Mads

[Mark Dagostino]

Thanks, Mads. I work on a Mac and Premiere has not been a project-stopping problem for me. The captioning issue is a small inconvenience, but it gets me 90% of the way there and usually requires only about 5 minutes to fix mistakes. For my workflow, still better than having to send it out or use a third-party program, (for security reasons it takes forever to get any app approved for use on my workstation). Going back to the early days of Media100, I was never an Avid fan, but hopefully that works out for you. I’ve dabbled in DaVinci and I hear lots of praise.

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Mark,

I hear you, and have to say that I am considering Mac. Not least that the Windows 11 Co-Pilot AI, NVidia AI and Adobe AI is currently having an almighty fight for my PC resources. That renders all three of those parts useless.

And, that is me not even wanting to use AI, but is forced to be a bystander whilst those BIG TECH companies works hard to destroy my project (Adobe is the main perpetrator here, PPro). I’ve just done a call-out on LinkedIn for the politicians to enact a law where every software with AI should have a kill-switch installed for the user to be able to switch off the AI parts…

Yes, I have not used AVID for many years, but on big projects and large scale editing, they are looking good for the money. But opted for MediaComposer Ultimatte on a 3-year software licence. Which is no where close to the days where the entry investment was up to $ 80,000 per workstation.
They have new owners, who is there to make money = better product and competitive pricing.
Check it out:
https://www.avid.com/media-composer

Avid, in combination with Davinci, I see no reason to stay with an Adobe that is spending all their marketing on Adobe Express, whilst not putting resources to keep PPro working solidly in a high-end post-production environment.
In my last PPro project, I litterally had to delete all of the camera rushes inside the project, to make the project stable enough to pull a Master from it.

In any case, over the years I’ve edited on so many systems, that it doesn’t matter what I work on. Yes, some has advantages that the others don’t, but those advantages are only good if the software is stable and working.

Atb
Mads

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