Adobe Premiere just introduced a text-based editing function in Premiere Pro (Beta version), which makes assembling a rough cut almost as simple as editing a Word document. So let’s have a closer look at Adobe’s new feature and find out how you could use it for your benefit. This feature could really be quite helpful, especially in interview-heavy documentaries that are more about the content than the emotions and especially when producing under time pressure. But before we have a closer look at this new feature, let’s take a look back at how it has been working so far. The traditional way of editing interviews First of all, you have to transcribe your footage to get a text version of your interviews. You could have an actual human transcribe the interviews for you, or use the built-in automatic transcription function of Adobe Premiere, for example. Next, the director has to read the interviews and mark the parts they want to use, find the right order for the selected parts, and then the editor can use this information to create the so-called first “paper cut”. Text-Based Editing in Premiere Pro Beta. Source: Adobe Adobe Premiere’s text-based editing Text-based editing is designed to create a rough cut faster by using the built-in automatic transcription function of Adobe Premiere and then editing it like a Word document. By cutting and pasting sentences, the video clips in your timeline will directly follow your text edits. Text-based editing is available in the Premiere Pro (Beta)...
Published By: CineD - Monday, 13 February, 2023