I posted on the production blog the other day, explaining the Paper Edit of the documentary.
I have been working at it for a while. I’m down to the last 3 transcripts. This is a tedious process. But I am seeing the content of the interviews again, and seeing how the final film will come together.
I am very ready to start assembling the video into the time line of the editor.
My feature length doc film has hours of interview footage. Hours.
So now, I’m working through the footage. And I’m experimenting with ways to convert audio from video to text so I can do a paper edit.
One way is to make comments in the metadata of each clip. Then you can export the sequence from Premiere as an Avid Log Exchange file. Then change the “.ale’ to “.txt” and import to Excel. It’s not pretty or smooth, but you can see columns with time code and comments.
I tried using the old Adobe CC “speech analysis” in Premiere 7. I downloaded the previous version from the Creative Cloud and had it process a couple of clips. Let’s just say the accuracy was pretty bad. Very bad. But, I thought I could maybe use it. So I saved the project file. And then opened it in the latest version of Premiere, which still kept the metadata… as speech analysis information. But, when I exported the ALE file and tried to import to Excel, the speech analysis data doesn’t show up. And you can’t copy and paste the data from the speech analysis text box. I don’t know why.
Now, I’m trying the Youtube auto text caption option. I exported a super low resolution video, because I only need the audio and I wanted the file to be small. The video was automatically transcribed, which was great. And I could download a file. But I can’t get Premiere to like the file. They just won’t display correctly.
But, I ended up copying the text and pasting it. The caption file has the file timecode listed. Copied the text, and pasted it “special” into a word doc, to preserve the formatting.
So, that’s where I’m at- Exporting clips of interviews to Youtube and then copying the captions to a transcript. It’s working so far, but I’m always open to a more efficient process.
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