Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - Manual (Page 181)

175 USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS4
Editing sequences and clips
Last updated 11/6/2011
.You can see whether any clip in the Project panel has been used in a project, the number of uses, and the location of
each use, with the Clip Usage menu. The Clip Usage triangle appears next to the thumbnail viewer only if the selected
clips has been used in a sequence.
1 Select a clip in the Project panel.
2 Toward the top of the project panel, next to the thumbnail for the clip, click the Clip Usage triangle on the Movie
line next to the pixel aspect ratio.
A popup menu will show the timecode location for the clip for any sequence in which it is used.
The locations of a clip in the Clip Usage menu of the Project panel
3 Click the desired location.
The desired sequence panel will move forward and the current-time indicator will jump to the location of the clip.
View the source of a sequence clip in the Project panel
❖ Right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Mac OS) a clip in a sequence, and choose Reveal In Project.
Convert speech to text metadata
Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth let you convert spoken words into text transcripts, which you edit and search
just like other metadata properties. This powerful technology lets you navigate to time locations at which specific
words are spoken, helping you better align edits, advertising, and subtitles.
The speech analysis feature can use any of several language-specific and dialect-specific libraries, such as libraries for
Spanish and UK English.
Note: Accurate speech transcripts require good audio quality. Background noise significantly reduces accuracy. To
remove such noise, use the tools and processes in Soundbooth.
Dan Ebberts provides a tutorial on the Adobe website that demonstrates the use of XMP metadata features. The
tutorial shows how to convert speech to text metadata and create a simple video player with which you can navigate
to the places where words are spoken. Adobe provides another white paper and demonstration on the
Adobe website
that shows an alternative method involving Soundbooth to accomplish a similar result.
For a video about searching speech to speed up editing, see the Adobe website .
Transcribe spoken words
1 In the workspace, select a file or clip.
2 At the bottom of the Metadata panel, click Transcribe.
3 Set the Language and Quality options, and select Identify Speakers if you want to create separate transcripts for each
person.
4 Click OK.
The spoken words appear in the Speech Transcript section. Processing time roughly equals clip length. If a clip is
one minute long, for example, the transcript will appear after roughly one minute.
5 (Required) Save the project to retain the transcript.