Flicker Free 2.0 can solve a wide variety of flicker issues, and the presets available in the plugin are good starting points for finding the right settings to deflicker your footage. No matter what type of flickering you are dealing with – from rolling bands caused by out of sync cameras to time-lapse strobing – selecting a preset from the dropdown menu at the top of the Flicker Free effect controls allows you to automatically change the rest of the settings (Time Radius, Sensitivity, etc) so you quickly try several different configurations. Once you find one that looks good, you can tweak the settings from there to make the flicker removal more efficient and minimize any blurring, ghosting or “shadow” effects caused by the preset settings. The presets themselves are named after common types of flicker and divided into “Faster” and “Slower” categories to make it easier for video editors to choose a starting point, but you can start with any preset really. It’s possible that a “Rolling Bands” set of settings will work better on slow motion footage than a “Slow Motion” preset, so try cycling through different options even if the name of the preset does not seem to match the type of flicker you see on your footage. With most types of flicker you can follow those steps: 1. Choose a Faster preset to reduce rendering times: these presets aren’t using Flicker Free’s Motion Compensation or advanced Detect Motion options. Some common issues don’t need these, and choosing a “Slow” preset will only add to your rendering times. So in most cases you’ll want to try the “Faster” presets first. 2. Increase Time Radius and lower Sensitivity: if you still see flicker after applying one of the faster presets, try increasing the Time Radius and lowering the Sensitivity. These two settings have the greatest impact on how Flicker Free detects and removes flicker – higher Time Radius analyzes more frames, and lower Sensitivity is better at targeting flicker like rolling bandsor flashing in a specific part of the frame. 3. Play with Slower presets: if the flicker is removed but you see motion blur, try applying a slower preset. They will take longer to render, but use Motion Compensation and Advanced Motion Detection to better identify moving objects/subjects, camera movement and high/low contrast areas. For example, if you have a clip with horizontal rolling bands, try the Slow “Rolling Bands” (default) and “Rolling Bands 2” presets. Use whichever one looks better as your starting point. If that doesn’t fix the flicker, the next step is to add more flicker removal by either increasing the Time Radius (to a maximum of 10) and/or decreasing the Sensitivity (try the 3-10 range). Changing individual settings will change the preset dropdown to “Custom”. If those presets remove the flicker but add motion blur to the shot, select the slower “Rolling Bands – Motion” or “Rolling Bands – Motion 2” presets. These presets have the Motion Compensation option turned on, which analyzes moving objects to remove motion blur. You can adjust the Time Radius and Sensitivity settings here as well to increase the flicker removal. Working with presets will save you tons of time when getting started with Flicker Free. They are just starting points, but can often fix problems with minimal or no adjustments. They also give you an idea of how different setting combinations look, so you can start to customize individual settings to fix more difficult cases of flicker. For a more in-depth explanation of what each individual Flicker Free settings does, you can check out this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKoz5VnF5rE And this video has more info on how to use the Detect Motion and Motion Compensation settings:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlbRcp8sWKo Also, if you have a clip you’re having trouble with, you can send us a sample of the origins footage at cs@digitalaanrchy.com and we can test Flicker Free 2.0 on it to see if we can find settings that work.
Editing Captions faster in Transcriptive
Captioning all your videos will make your content accessible to a wider audience and improve SEO, making them easier to discover when searching for content online. We have been working on making sure all our Youtube content is captioned, and Transcriptive has been instrumental in this process. It lets us create AI transcripts that can then be edited alongside the video, which makes it much easier to find and edit mistakes on the transcripts. However, even with all the AI technology behind our high-accuracy Transcriptive AI Premium speech engine, automated transcripts still have mistakes. Editing the text so they are 100% accurate can still be a time-consuming process. Here are some quick tips we found to be super helpful while editing AI transcripts in Transcriptive so they can be ready for captioning and subtitling much faster: Use the Glossary The Glossary lets you prevent the AI from transcribing specific words and phrases incorrectly.. Enter proper names, jargon, medical terms, etc in the Glossary field before submitting the media for transcription and the AI will try to include them in the transcript. For example, when I’m editing captions for a Transcriptive tutorial, I know the AI isn’t going to use the term “Transcriptive” (it usually comes back as “transcript of”). When I add “Transcriptive” to the Glossary, it comes back as “Transcriptive”, saving me an edit each time it comes up. You can enter terms separated by commas, and then click “Create” to create a glossary list for that transcribing job. You do need to enter a new glossary for each job – it doesn’t remember your previous glossary entries – but you can save a list of terms in a text file and then paste them in. Here’s example of what I was pasting into the glossary field when captioning Transcriptive tutorial videos: Transcriptive, Digital Anarchy, Premiere, Media Encoder, Speechmatics, Power Search, Rough Cutter, Batch Project, transcript, strikethrough These terms come up a lot, and entering them when transcribing saves dozens of edits when editing the text. Line Splitting and Auto-Punctuation The transcribing AI is often good at identifying most of the words in a clip or sequence correctly, but can struggle to understand where sentences begin and end. A quick way to add a sentence break is to double click a word and press Enter – this will create a new paragraph starting with that word, automatically capitalize it, and automatically add a period to the end of the previous word. You can also use the Ctrl + left/right arrow (Command + left/right arrow on Mac) to move to the word you want to start the new paragraph with, and then press Enter. Adding a period, question mark, or exclamation point to the end of a word will also automatically capitalize the next word to make adding new sentence breaks faster. Double-click or use Ctrl (Win) or Command (Mac) + left/right arrow to select the last word in the new sentence, then press right arrow to move the cursor to the end of that word, then type a period, question mark, or exclamation point to add that punctuation and automatically capitalize the next word. To remove punctuation and merge two sentences, select a word with punctuation using double-click or Ctrl/Command + arrow, then press the right arrow to move the cursor to the end of the word, then delete the punctuation, then Ctrl/Command + right arrow to move to the next word and press the down arrow to make it lower-case – now the two sentences are one. Change Playback Speed and Navigate the Transcript with Keyboard Shortcuts The keyboard shortcuts and buttons at the bottom of Transcriptive are extremely useful: -The playback speed button toggles between 1x, 1.5x, and 2x playback speed. This is especially helpful for transcripts that don’t need many corrections, or that have a very slow speaker. –Ctrl+space starts or stops playback. You can also single-click or double-click a word during playback to jump to that word and automatically pause playback to make and edit. -The keyboard shortcuts for previous/next word, previous/next sentence, and previous/next paragraph are often the fastest way to move the cursor to where you want to make an edit. Use these to move the highlight to a word, then start typing to replace it with the correct word. –Ctrl + Delete/Backspace deletes the selected word, and moves the highlight to the word before it. You can use this shortcut several times in a row to delete several words in a row. –Up or down arrow will change capitalization of the highlighted word. You can use this keyboard shortcut even if you single click a word to move the typing cursor to it to quickly capitalize proper nouns -And of course, Ctrl+z to undo a change and Ctrl+Shift+z to redo a change. Hopefully these tips help speed up the editing process. If you have any questions about Transcriptive, send us an email at cs@digitalanarchy.com.
Transcriptive OnBoarding: Where to Find Everything
Welcome to Transcriptive Rough Cutter! This page/video will give you an overview of the UI, so you know where to find everything! The five minute video above will give the quickest explanation. But for those that prefer reading, skip past the video and all the info is below it. Happy Transcribing! (and so much more 🙂 We’re going to go over the different areas of Transcriptive Rough Cutter, so you know where to find stuff, but we’ll leave deeper explanations for other tutorials. So let’s get started. The first thing to know is the Clip Mode switch. If this is on. Then Transcriptive is going to be looking at the project panel and as you select different clips, it’s going to show the transcript for that clip. If you have this turned off, it will be in sequence mode and the transcript will be for whichever sequence is currently active. So as we switch to different sequences, it will load the transcript for that sequence. Next up is getting the transcript itself. Now, if you already have a transcript in text format, you can click on the import dialog and you can import the transcript and the variety of different ways. But if you need to get the transcript, then you click on Transcribe. And this will allow you to select which speech service to go with. Alignment is also here. So if you’ve imported a text based transcript that does not have timecode, alignment will analyze the audio and add timecode to your imported text file. Now you can also select the language. Glossary allows you to type in names or terminology that the A.I. might not necessarily know, and they can definitely improve accuracy. If you have a lot of terms that are maybe unusual. So Transcribe dialogue is incredibly important. The Auto Load button that’s next to Transcribe tells Transcriptive Rough Cutter to automatically load the transcript for whatever you click on. So if I’m down in the project panel and clicking on different clips, Transcriptive will load the transcript for those clips. If you want to lock it to just one clip/sequence, say you’re using a sequence and you always want to see the transcript for that sequence… turn on Sequence Mode (Clip Mode = Off) and no matter what we do this transcript will be shown if Auto Load = Off. So as I move to different sequences or clips, the transcript for the sequence that was shown when we turned Auto Load off, is now always shown. And of course, you can edit text. it works similar to a word processor, except every word has timecode. You can just click on words and start typing away. Because every word has timecode, as you click on different words, it’s going to move to different points on the Sequence/Clip timeline. You can also change speakers by clicking on the speakers and selecting from the dropdown menu. On the right hand side, you’ll see three icons. This is where you add Comments or Delete entire blocks of text or Strike Through the text for use with the Rough Cut feature. And that brings us to the main menu where you can Manage Speakers. You can click on that. It will allow you to add speakers, change the name of speakers, and all that will then be reflected in the dropdown you see in the Text Edit window. Sync Transcript to Sequence Edit is an important item. If you edit your sequence and delete stuff, it will become out of sync with the transcript. The transcript will have stuff that’s no longer in your sequence. If you select Sync Transcript To Sequence Edit, Transcriptive will go through your sequence and rebuild the transcript to match what you’ve edited out. You can also Batch Files. Which is very important if you have lots of clips that you want to get transcribed. Batch is a very easy way of processing as many clips as you want at the same time. There are multiple ways you can do it, Batch Project will transcribe anything selected in the Project panel and with Batch Files/Folder, you select files from the operating system. (kind of like importing files into Premiere) If you need to do a lot of transcribing this is a VERY important feature. At the bottom of the Transcriptive Rough Cutter panel you have the ability to Export Files like a text file of the entire transcript. And… There’s the Rough Cut button, which is a key feature of Transcriptive Rough Cutter. It will take a transcript that you have edited and build a sequence based on that transcript. So if you delete text, it will delete that portion of the clip or sequence from the new Rough Cut. So this is a feature that requires a bit of explaining, so I definitely encourage you to check out the in depth tutorial on Rough Cut. You also have the ability to search. Search is one of the most powerful features of Transcriptive Rough Cutter, along with Power Search, which is the other panel that ships with transcript. Here you can search the entire transcript that’s in the Transcriptive Rough Cutter Panel. You can also replace words, but the real power comes from Power Search, which can search the entire project. So if you’re looking for something and you’re not quite sure what transcript or clip it’s from. You can type in the term and get a bunch of search results, much like any other search engine. And when you click on those results, it’s going to open up that clip and jump right to where that happens. So we can click on these other ones, it’ll work for sequences as well. And then when you load that up, that transcript will appear in Transcriptive Rough Cutter. And since there’s nothing else like this anywhere in Premiere itself, this is a really powerful way of making use of your transcripts. If you’d
Transcription Accuracy: Adobe Sensei vs Transcriptive A.I.
Speechmatics, one of the A.I. engines we support, recently released a new speech model which promised much higher accuracy. Transcriptive Rough Cutter now supports that if you choose the Speechmatics option. Also with Premiere able to generate transcripts with Adobe Sensei, we get a lot of questions about how it compares to Transcriptive Rough Cutter. So we figured it was a good time to do a test of the various A.I. speech engines! (Actually we do this pretty regularly, but only occasionally post the results when we feel there’s something newsworthy about them) You can read about the A.I. testing methodology in this post if you’re interested or want to run your own tests. But, in short, Word Error Rate is what we pay most attention to. It’s simply: NumberOfWordsMissed / NumberOfWordsInTranscript where NumberOfWordsMissed = the number of words in the corrected transcript that the A.I. failed to recognize. If instead of the word ‘Everything’ the A.I. produced ‘Even ifrits sing’, it still missed just one word. In the reverse situation, it would count as three missed words. We also track punctuation errors, but those can be somewhat subjective, so we put less weight on that. What’s the big deal between 88% and 93% Accuracy? Every 1% of additional accuracy means roughly 15% less incorrect words. A 30 minute video has, give or take, about 3000 words. So with Speechmatics you’d expect to have, on average, 210 missed words (7% error rate) and with Adobe Sensei you’d have 360 missed words (12% error rate). Every 10 words adds about 1:15 to the clean up time. So it’ll take about 18 minutes more to clean up that 30 minute transcript if you’re using Adobe Sensei. Every additonal 1% in accuracy means 3.5 minutes less of clean up time (for a 30 minute clip). So small improvements in accuracy can make a big difference if you (or your Assistant Editor) needs to clean up a long transcript. Of course, the above are averages. If you have a really bad recording with lots of words that are difficult to make out, it’ll take longer to clean up than a clip with great audio and you’re just fixing words that are clear to you but the A.I. got wrong. But the above numbers do give you some sense of what the accuracy value means back in the real world. The Test Results! All the A.I.s are great at handling well-recorded audio. If the talent is professionally mic’d and they speak well, you should get 95% or better accuracy. It’s when the audio quality drops off that Transcriptive and Speechmatics really shine (and why we include them in Transcriptive Rough Cutter). And I 100% encourage you to run your own tests with your own audio. Again, this post outlines exactly how we test and you can easily do it yourself. Speechmatics New is the clear winner, with a couple first place finishes, no last place finishes, and at 93.3% rate overall (you can find the spreadsheet with results and the audio files further down the post). One caveat… Speechmatics takes about 5x as long to process. So a 30 minute video will take about 3 minutes with Transcriptive A.I. and 15-20 minutes with Speechmatics. If you select Speechmatics in Transcriptive, you’re getting the new A.I. model. Adobe Sensei is the least accurate with two last place finishes and no first places, for a 88.3% accuracy overall. Google, which is another A.I. service we evaluate but currently don’t use, is all over the place. Overall, it’s 80.6%, but if you remove the worst and best examples, it’s a more pedestrian 90.3%. No idea why it failed so badly on the Bill clip, but it’s a trainwreck. The Bible clip is from a public domain reading of the bible, which I’m guessing was part of Google’s training corpus. You rarely see that kind of accuracy unless the A.I. was trained on it. Anyways, this inconsistency is why we don’t use it in Transcriptive. Here are the clips we used for this test: Here’s the spreadsheet of the results (SM = Speechmatics, Green means best performance, Orange means worst). Again, mostly we’re focused on the Word Accuracy. Punctuation is a secondary consideration:
How do We Test Speech-to-Text Services for Accuracy?
Transcriptive-A.I. doesn’t use a single A.I. services on the backend. We don’t have our own A.I., so like most companies that offer transcription we use one of the big companies (Google, Watson, Speechmatics, etc). We initially started off with Speechmatics as the ‘high quality’ option. And they’re still very good (as you’ll see shortly), but not always. However, since we had so many users that liked them, we still give you the option to use them if you want. However, we’ve now added Transcriptive-A.I. This uses whatever A.I. services we think is best. It might use Speechmatics, but it might also use one of a dozen other services we test. Since we encourage users to test Transcriptive-A.I. against any service out there, I’ll give you some insight on how we test the different services and choose which to use behind the scenes. Usually we take 5-10 audio clips of varying quality that are about one minute long. Some very well recorded, some really poorly recorded and some in between. The goal is to see which A.I. works best overall and which might work better is certain circumstances. When grading the results, I save out a plain text file with no timecode, speakers or whatever. I’m only concerned about word accuracy and, to a lesser degree, punctuation accuracy. Word accuracy is the most important thing. (IMO) For this purpose, Word 2010 has an awesome Compare function to see the difference between the Master transcript (human corrected) and the A.I. transcript. Newer versions of Word might be better for comparing legal documents, but Word 2010 is the best for comparing A.I. accuracy. Also, let’s talk about the rules for grading the results. You can define what an ‘error’ is however you want. But you have to be consistent about how you apply the definition. Applying them consistently matters more than the rules themselves. So here are the rules I use: 1) Every word in the Master transcript that is missed counts as one error. So ‘a reed where’ for ‘everywhere’ is just one error, but ‘everywhere’ for ‘every hair’ is two errors. 2) ah, uh, um are ignored. Some ASRs include them, some don’t. I’ll let ‘a’ go, but if an ‘uh’ should be ‘an’ it’s an error. 3) Commas are 1/2 error and full stops (period, ?) are also 1/2 error but there’s an argument for making them a full error. 4) If words are correct but the ASR tries to separate/merge them (e.g. ‘you’re’ to ‘you are’, ‘got to’ to ‘gotta’, ‘because’ to ’cause) it does not count as an error. That’s it! We then add up the errors, divide that by the number of words that are in the clip, and that’s the error rate!
Upgraded to FCP 10.6? Please Update Your Plugins.
Apple just launched Final Cut Pro 10.6 which has some cool new features, like Face Tracking. Unfortunately they also introduced a bug or two. One of which prevents our plugins from registering. So… we updated all our plugins to work around the issue. Please go here: https://digitalanarchy.com/demos/psd_mac.html And you can download the updated version of any plugin you own. You only need to do this if you’re doing a fresh install of the plugins. Updating FCP should not cause the problem. But if you’re re-installing the plugin, then you might need the updated version. The issue is that the Yellow Question Mark at the top of the Inspector, doesn’t open a dialog when it’s clicked. It should open up our registration dialog (or about box) as shown here: So if you’re clicking on the Question Mark to register and nothing happens… Please update your plugins! These are free updates if you own the most recent version of the plugin. If you own an older version and don’t want to upgrade, the licensing dialog DOES work in Motion. It’s only an FCP problem. So if you have Motion, you can apply the plugin there and register it.
Adobe Transcripts and Captions & Transcriptive: Differences and How to Use Them Together
Adobe just released a big new Premiere update that includes their Speech-to-Text service. We’ve had a lot of questions about whether this kills Transcriptive or not (it doesn’t… check out the new Transcriptive Rough Cutter!). So I thought I’d take a moment to talk about some of the differences, similarities, and how to use them together. The Adobe system is basically what we did for Transcriptive 1.0 in 2017. So Transcriptive Rough Cutter has really evolved into an editing and collaboration tool, not just something you use to get transcripts. The Adobe solution is really geared towards captions. That’s the problem they were trying to solve and you can see this in the fact you can only transcribe sequences. And only one at a time. So if you want captions for your final edit, it’s awesome. If you want to transcribe all your footage so you can search it, pull out selects, etc… it doesn’t do that. So, in some ways the Transcriptive suite (Transcriptive Rough Cutter, PowerSearch, TS Web App) is more integrated than Adobe’s own service. Allowing you to transcribe clips and sequences, and then search, share, or assemble rough cuts with those transcripts. There are a lot of ways using text in the editing process can make life a lot easier for an editor, beyond just creating captions. Sequences Only The Adobe transcription service only works for Sequences. It’s really designed for use with the new Caption system they introduced earlier this year. Transcriptive can transcribe media and sequences, giving the user a lot more flexibility. One example: they can transcribe media first, use that to find soundbites or information in the clips and build a sequence off that. As they edit the sequence, add media, or make changes they can regenerate the transcript without any additional cost. The transcripts are attached to the media… so Transcriptive just looks for which portions of the clips are in the sequence and grabs the transcript for that portion. Automatic Rough Cut Rough Cut: There are two ways of assembling a ‘rough cut’ with Transcriptive Rough Cutter. What we’re calling Selects, which is basically what I mention above in the ‘Sequences Only’ paragraph: Search for a soundbite, you set In/Out points in the transcript of the clip with that soundbite, and insert that portion of the video into a sequence. Then there’s the Rough Cut feature, where Transcriptive RC will take a transcript that you edit and assemble a sequence automatically: creating edits where you’ve deleted or struckthrough text and removing the video that corresponds to those text edits. This is not something Adobe can do or has made any indication they will do, so far anyways. Collaboration with The Transcriptive Web App One key difference is the ability to send transcripts to someone that does not have Premiere. They can edit those transcripts in a web browser and add comments, and then send it all back to you. They can even delete portions of the text and you can use the Rough Cut feature to assemble a sequence based on that. Searching Your Premiere Project PowerSearch: This separate panel (but included with TS) lets you search every piece of media in your Premiere project that has a transcript in metadata or in clip/sequence markers. Premiere is pretty lacking in the Search department and PowerSearch gives you a search engine for Premiere. It only works for media/sequences transcribed by Transcriptive. Adobe, in their infinite wisdom, made their transcript format proprietary and we can’t read it. So unless you export it out of Premiere and then import it into Transcriptive, PowerSearch can’t read the text unfortunately. Easier to Export Captions Transcriptive RC let’s you output SRT, VTT, SCC, MCC, SMPTE, or STL just by clicking Export. You can then use these in any other program. With Adobe you can only export SRT, and even that takes multiple steps. (you can get other file formats when you export the rendered movie, but you have to render the timeline to have it generate those.) I assume Adobe is trying to make it difficult to use the free Adobe transcripts anywhere other than Premiere, but I think it’s a bit shortsighted. You can’t even get the caption file if you render out audio… you have to render a movie. Of course, the workaround is just to turn off all the video tracks and render out black frames. So it’s not that hard to get the captions files, you just have to jump through some hoops. Sharing Adobe Transcripts with Transcriptive Rough Cutter and Vice Versa I’ve already written a blog post specifically about showing how to use Adobe Transcripts with Transcriptive. But, in short… You can use Adobe transcripts in Transcriptive by exporting the transcript as plain text and using Transcriptive’s Alignnment feature to sync the text up to the clip or sequence. Every word will have timecode just as if you’d transcribed it in Transcriptive. (this is a free feature) AND… If you get your transcript in Transcriptive Rough Cutter, it’s easy to import it into the Adobe Caption system… just Export a caption file format Premiere supports out of Transcriptive RC and import it into Premiere. As mentioned, you can Export SRT, VTT, MCC, SCC, SMPTE, and STL. Two A.I. Services Transcriptive Rough Cutter gives you two A.I. services to choose from, allowing you use whatever works best for your audio. It is also usually more accurate than Adobe’s service, especially on poor quality audio. That said, the Adobe A.I. is good as well, but on a long transcript, even a percentage point or two of accuracy will add up to saving a significant amount of time cleaning up the transcript.
How to get Transcriptive.com for $8/mo or $96/year
Our web app makes most of the Transcriptive for Premiere Pro Panel functionalities available online, allowing users to transcribe, edit, export captions or text files, add comments, strikethrough text, and share transcripts with editors. It was designed to make cross-team collaboration a quick and easy process, and Transcriptive Premiere panel owners pay less to access all its features. So if you own Transcriptive for Premiere Pro, watch the video to learn how to link your panel license to your web app account and pay $8/month or $96/year! Or follow the instructions the step-by-step instructions below: Open Transcriptive for Premiere Pro. 2. In the Serial Number setup window, log into your Transcriptive.com account. If your panel is already registered, go to the sandwich menu on the upper left corner, click on “License”, and choose “Deactivate”. You can then log into your Transcriptive.com account. 3. The window will then ask for your serial number. Enter your serial number and click “Register”. This will link the account to the serial number and automatically apply the discount. 4. Head to https://app.transcriptive.com and log in. 5. Click on “Subscription” on the left side menu and choose Producer Monthly ($19) or Producer annual ($160). Transcriptive will charge $8/mo or $96/year instead of $19 and $160. The discounted prices will show on your Invoice. Subscriptions cost $19/month and $160/year for Transcriptive.com only users so make sure the account is linked and you are receiving the discount! Transcriptive for Premiere Pro users do not need to sign up for a paid subscription if they don’t intend to edit and export transcripts or add comments and strikethrough, online. A Free limited subscription is available. Questions? Send an email to sales@digitalanarchy.com.
Why do we have the lowest transcription costs?
We occasionally get questions from customers asking why we charge .04/min ($2.40/hr) for transcription (if you pre-pay), when some competitors charge .25/min or even .50/min. Is it lower accuracy? Are you selling our data? No and no. Ok, but why? Transcriptive and PowerSearch work best when all your media has transcripts attached to it. Our goal is to make Transcriptive as useful as possible. We hope the less you have to think about the cost of the transcripts, the more media you’ll transcribe… resulting in making Transcriptive and PowerSearch that much more powerful. The Transcriptive-AI service is equal to, or better, than what other services are using. We’re not tied to one A.I. and we’re constantly evaluating the different A.I. services. We use whatever we think is currently state-of-the-art. Since we do such a high volume we get good pricing from all the services, so it doesn’t really matter which one we use. Do we make a ton of money on transcribing? No. The services that charge .25/min (or whatever) are probably making a fair amount of money on transcribing. We’re all paying about .02/min or less. Give or take, that’s the wholesale/volume price. If you’re getting your transcripts for free… those transcripts are probably being used for training, especially if the service is keeping track of the edits you make (e.g. YouTube, Otter, etc.). Transcriptive is not sending your edits back to the A.I. service. That’s the important bit if you’re going to train the A.I. Without the corrected version, the A.I. doesn’t know what it got wrong and can’t learn from it. So, for us, it all comes down to making Transcriptive.com, the Transcriptive Premiere Pro panel, and PowerSearch as useful as possible. To do so, we want the most accurate transcripts and we want them to be as low cost as possible. We know y’all have a LOT of footage. We’d rather reduce the barriers to you transcribing all of it. So… if you’re wondering how we can justify charging .04/min for transcripts, that’s the reason. It enables all the other cool features of Transcriptive and PowerSearch. Hopefully that’s a win for everyone.
Changes between Transcriptive 2.x and 1.x
We often get asked what the differences are between Transcriptive 2.0 and 1.0. So here is the full list of new features! As always there are a lot of other bug fixes and behind the scenes changes that aren’t going to be apparent to our customers. So this is just a list of features you’ll encounter while using Transcriptive. NEW FEATURES IN TRANSCRIPTIVE 2.0 Works with clips or sequences: You no longer have to have clips in sequences to get them transcribed. Clips can be transcribed and edited just by selecting them in the Project panel. This opens up many different workflows and is something the new caption system in Premiere can’t do. Watch the tutorial on transcribing clips in Premiere A clip selected in the Project panel. Setting In/Out points in TS! Editing with Text: Clip Mode enables you to search through clips to find sound bites. You can then set IN/OUT points in the transcript and insert them into your edit. This is a powerful way of compiling rough cuts without having to scrub through footage. Watch the Tutorial on editing video using a transcript! Collaborate by Sharing/Send/receive to Transcriptive.com: Collaborate on creating a paper edit by sharing the transcript with your team and editor. Send transcripts or videos from Premiere to Transcriptive.com, letting a client, AE, or producer edit them in a web browser or add Comments or strike-through text. The transcript can then be sent back to the video editor in Premiere to continue working with it. Watch the tutorial on collaborating in Premiere using Transcriptive.com! There’s also this blog post on collaborative workflows. Now includes PowerSearch for free! Transcriptive can only search one transcript at a time. With PowerSearch, you can search every clip and sequence in your project! It’s a search engine for Premiere. Search for text and get search results like Google. Click on a result and it jumps to exactly where the dialog is in that clip or sequence. Watch the tutorials on PowerSearch, the search engine for Premiere. Search results in Premiere! Click to jump to that point in the media. Reduced cost: As low as .04/min. by prepaying minutes you can get the cost down to .04/min! Why is it so inexpensive? Is it worse than the other services that charge .25 or .50/min? No! We’re just as good or better (don’t take my word, run your own comparisons). Transcriptive only works if you’ve transcribed your footage. By keeping the cost of minutes low, hopefully we make it an easy decision to transcribe all your footage and make Transcriptive as useful as possible! Ability to add comments/notes at any point in the transcript. The new Comments feature lets you add a note to any line of dialog. Incredibly useful if you’re working with someone else and need to share information. It’s also great if you want to make notes for yourself as you’re going through footage. Strikethrough text: Allows you to strikethrough text to indicate dialog that should be removed. Of course, you can just delete it but if you’re working with someone and you want them to see what you’ve flagged for deletion OR if you’re just unsure if you want to definitely delete it, strikethrough is an excellent way of identifying that text. Glossary: Unlimited glossary for increasing the A.I. accuracy. This allows you to enter in proper names, company names, jargon and other difficult words to help the A.I. choose the right one. Here’s a blog post explaining how to use this for custom vocabulary. I used an MLB draft video to illustrate how the glossary can help. And another blog post on WHY the A.I. needs help. More ‘word processor’ like text editor: A.I. isn’t perfect, even though it’s pretty close in many cases (usually 96-99% accurate with good audio). However, you can correct any mistake you find with the new text editor! It’s quick and easy to use because it works just like a word processor built into Premiere. Watch the tutorial on editing text in Transcriptive! Align English transcripts for free: If you already have a script, you can sync the text to your audio track at no cost. You’ll get all the benefits of the A.I. (per word timing, searchability, etc) without the cost. It’s a free way of making use of transcripts you already have. Watch the tutorial on syncing transcripts in Premiere! Adjust timing for words: If you’re editing text and correcting any errors the A.I. might have made it can result in the new words having timecode that doesn’t quite sync with the spoken dialog. This new feature lets you adjust the timecode for any word so it’s precisely aligned with the spoken word. Ability to save the transcript to any audio or video file: In TS 1.0 the transcript always got saved to the video file. Now you can save it to any file. This is very helpful if you’ve recorded the audio separately and want the transcript linked to that file. More options for exporting markers: You can set the duration of markers and control what text appears in them. Profanity filter: **** out words that might be a bit much for tender ears. More speaker management options: Getting speaker names correct can be critical. There are now more options to control how this feature works. Additional languages: Transcriptive now supports over 30 languages! Checks for duplicate transcripts: Reduces the likelihood a clip/sequence will get transcribed twice unnecessarily. Sometimes users will accidentally transcribe the same clip twice. This helps prevent that and save you money! Lock to prevent editing: This allows other people to view the transcript in Premiere or on Transcriptive.com and prevent them from accidentally making changes. Sync Transcript to Sequence: Often you’ll get the transcript before you make any edits. As you start cutting and moving things around, the transcript will no longer match the edit. This is a one-click way of regenerating the transcript to match the edit. Streamlined payment/account workflow: Access multiple
Dumb A.I., Dumb Anarchist: Using the Transcriptive Glossary
We’ve been working on Transcriptive for like 3 years now. In that time, the A.I. has heard my voice saying ‘Digital Anarchy’ umpteen million times. So, you would think it would easily get that right by now. As the below transcript from our SRT Importing tutorial shows… not so much. (Dugal Accusatorial? Seriously?) ALSO, you would think that by now I would have a list of terms that I would copy/paste into Transcriptive’s Glossary field every time I get a transcript for a tutorial. The glossary helps the A.I. determine what ‘vocal sounds’ should be when it translates those sounds into words. Uh, yeah… not so much. So… don’t be like AnarchyJim. If you have words you know the A.I. probably won’t get: company names, industry jargon, difficult proper names (cool blog post on applying player names to an MLB video here), etc., then use Transcriptive’s glossary (in the Transcribe dialog). It does work. (and somebody should mention that to the guy that designed the product. Oy.) Overall the A.I. is really accurate and does usually get ‘Digital Anarchy’ correct. So I get lazy about using the glossary. It is a really useful thing…
Using Transcriptive with multiple serial numbers and one account
If you work with a team to deliver high quality videos then you know how important it is to keep everything organized between editors, assistant editors, producers, and everyone else involved in a project. With basically everyone working remotely, the need to keep all data under one account seemed like a big priority for our clients. So Transcriptive for Premiere Pro now allows users to log in to one account in order to share prepaid minutes balances, have access to the same projects on Transcriptive.com, track transcribed jobs to avoid duplicates, and access every invoice in one place. The licensing for Transcriptive for Premiere Pro has not changed: each license purchased equals one serial number that can be installed on two computers. However, multiple editors can now share the same account and pre-paid minutes if no serial number is attached to the Transcriptive account. It sounds confusing, but it’s a simple process. After the Transcriptive licenses are purchased and the team account is created, you can share the login info with whoever is going to be using Transcriptive. All you need to do is to make sure your team members follow the steps below. Download Transcriptive for Premiere Pro: Mac: https://digitalanarchy.com/demos/psd_mac.html#d11 PC: https://digitalanarchy.com/demos/psd_win.html#d11 Open Premiere Pro>Extensions>Transcriptive Choose the option to “Click here to register using just your serial number” in the Serial number setup window and enter the unrestricted trial serial number. Go to Profile the menu on the upper right corner of the panel and use the Transcriptive account credentials to connect the panel to the account created on https://app.transcriptive.com Following steps 3 and 4 each time Transcriptive is setup will authorize the full version of our Premiere Pro plugin without requiring users to create multiple accounts. This means all editors will be able to use one set of pre-paid minutes packages, assistant editors can quickly access the transcripts in Premiere and Transcriptive.com without having to request editors share them between accounts and producers have fewer invoices to track each month. It’s important to keep in mind that having everyone logged into the same account also means they all have access to the account information, including the credit card information and transcripts. If this is a big concern for you, please keep in mind it is not the only way to use Transcriptive, as transcripts can still be shared between accounts. See this video to learn more! However, using the same account within a team is still the best way to centralize all the info related to Transcriptive. If you are ready to give this setup a try but have not yet purchased a Transcriptive for Premiere Pro license, please send an email to cs@digitalanarchy.com.
