Today, I’m going to show you how you can edit video interviews faster in Premiere Pro with a speech to text feature. If you’ve ever edited an interview before, you know how much work it can be. All the different soundbites, transcribing them and then putting it all together in one smooth, cohesive story. But I found a cool hack and premiere pro speech text feature that will save you hours of video editing time.
Released in 2021. Speech to text is an integrated workflow that automatically generates transcripts and captions for your videos. It uses A.I. technology to generate transcripts and syncing machine learning for accuracy. Captains are fine, but have you ever thought about using speech to text and in interviews? All right, so to get started, Brit is going to open up a video in the timeline, so I’m going to drag it on over here to get the transcript feature.
Two options you can do. You can just click on Window and select text. The other option is you can just click on the captions workspace. Then just click on transcribe sequence. It’s going to give you a few options here and then just hit transcribe. And now the first time you transcribe your audio, it will take a little bit longer.
Obviously the cleaner, the audio, the more accurate it’s going to be and a little tip here, It won’t work if you have any plug ins on any of the audio channels or any delay, reverb or whatever you want to make sure all those are disabled. Once the video’s transcription process is complete, you’ll be able to see the text of your video in the text panel.
The transcription is divided into time, blocks corresponding to timestamps. From your clip. You can edit the transcript in the text panel by double clicking a word in the text and you’ll automatically go to the corresponding line. In the video. You click anywhere on the transcript. What I do is I just have a shortcut for Z two for the for the cut, for the splice tool, for the Razor tool, just like editing a word document, you can actually at a video interview.
Pretty cool, huh? So I’m going take this little phrase right here. Did you know that 70% of people who buy cars watch YouTube videos before they even step into a dealership? So if I want to select that clip, all I need to do is just click on the first word of the phrase and then I’m just going to hit Z, which is going to cut it, and then I’m going to go to the end of the phrase.
But instead of just hitting the last word, I’m actually want to go to the first word of the next phrase, or else it’s just going to cut off the word of that last phrase. So again, I had Z and now I’ve got a little I got that clip. Pretty cool. This wasn’t designed for specifically for editing interviews, at least not yet.
So there are a few drawbacks, and so I’ll kind of show you my workflow to make this work. As you go through. You can edit each of the phrases like, I like I just did you know, just kind of cutting to the parts that you like. Now, if you delete any of those, you’re going to have to re transcribe the sequence again because it’s going to throw all the times down.
So to get around this, what I just do is I just label the ones I want to keep. So I’ll just label my keeps in green and then I’ll just go through, find the ones that I want. They’ll have one sequence that has the original interview with all my cuts, all label. Then I’ll take all those label clips and copy and paste them into a rough cut sequence.
And then from there I’ll fine tune it into my final sequence. So as you can see editing this way, we’ll see a ton of time as opposed to traditional or video editing techniques.