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Set trim preferences

You can set the number of frames that are trimmed when you use the Multiple-Frame Trim-in button or the Multiple-Frame Trim-out button .

Choose Edit > Preferences > Trim (Windows) or Premiere Pro > Preferences > Trim (Mac OS).

Working with clips in a sequence

Find a clip in any sequence with Clip Usage

Note: You can also see the number of times a clip has been used by making the Video Usage column visible in the Project panel. For more information, see “Add a column” on page 104

.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.

1Select a clip in the Project panel.

2Toward 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.

Analyze speech for text XMP metadata

Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth analyze spoken words and generate text metadata. You can edit and search text metadata like any other metadata properties. You can then navigate to the times at which specific words are spoken, to 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.

To download more language-specific and dialect-specific libraries, see this link on the Adobe website.

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In Premiere Pro CS5.5 and later, the Speech Analysis feature is also available for clips when there is at least one component audio clip in the merged clip. Users can choose to analyze all audio tracks in a merged clip, or a single one.

•To analyze speech in all tracks, do one of the following:

•Set the File pop up menu to “All Files”, and then click the Analyze button in the Speech Analysis section of the Metadata panel.

•Select the merged clip, and then choose Clip > Analyze Content.

Note: You can analyze multiple merged clips, multiple clips, or a combination of both by selecting the clips, and then choose Clip > Analyze Content.

•To analyze a specific track for speech, set the File pop up menu to the component audio clip you wish to analyze, and then click the Analyze button in the Speech Analysis section of the Metadata panel.

Note: Useful results from speech analysis 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 more information, see the video tutorial Using Speech Search to Speed Editing.

For a video demonstrating the use of script (screenplay) information from Adobe Story to improve the accuracy of speech analysis, see the Adobe website.

Jeff Sengstack provides a video overview of a speech search workflow involving Adobe Story, OnLocation, Premiere Pro, Encore, and Flash Player on the Lynda.com website.

This video from Video2Brain describes editing workflow in Premiere Pro using speech metadata from Adobe Story.

This video by Jason Levine shows an overview of Adobe Story and Premiere Pro integration.

For more information about how Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and later integrates with Adobe Story, see this blog post in the Premiere Pro work area.

Michael Hurwicz provides a video tutorial on the Creative COW website that shows embedding a transcript in a video using CS5 Production Premium (Adobe Story, OnLocation, Premiere Pro, Soundbooth and Flash Professional).

Jeff Greenberg explains in the following video how to enhance the speech recognition with keywords and scripts.

More Help topics

Speech to text enhancements

Analyze speech to create text metadata

1Select a file or clip.

2At the bottom of the Metadata panel, click Analyze Speech, or Analyze (Adobe Premiere Pro).

3Set the Language and Quality options, and select Identify Speakers if you want to create separate speech metadata for each person.

Note: Speech Search can use any of several language-specific and dialect-specific libraries, such as libraries for Spanish and UK English.

4Click OK.

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The spoken words appear in the Speech Analysis section.

5 To retain the speech metadata, save the project.

If you import files with a speech metadata intoAfter Effects, each word appears as a layer marker on layers based on these footage items.

Navigate to a specific word in speech metadata

1In the Speech Analysis section, select the word.

Timecode In and Duration indicate the precise location and length of your selection.

2To hear the selection, click either Play or Loop Playback. (The latter option repeatedly plays the selected word, with some preroll and postroll.)

Edit speech metadata

In the Speech Analysis section, do any of the following:

•To correct a word, click it, and type.

•To insert, delete, merge, cut, or copy words, right-click an existing word, and choose a command from the context menu.

Copy text from speech metadata to the clipboard for use in a text editor

Right-click the transcript, and choose Copy All.

Improve speech analysis with reference scripts

Accuracy of the speech to text conversion depends on the clarity of the spoken words and the quality of the recorded dialog. Dialog recorded in a noisy environment or with poor microphone placement cannot produce highly accurate results even with a reference script. You can nevertheless use a reference script to improve speech analysis. A reference script is a text document containing dialog similar to the dialog recorded in your assets.

There are two types of reference scripts:

•A script that contains similar dialog, but was not necessarily written for the current project. For example, a series of medical training scripts for different products can be combined into a single text document. You can use this text document as a reference script. With this type of reference script, speech analysis produces results more accurate than it does when using only the default language models.

•A script that matches the recorded dialog. This type of reference script provides the highest accuracy possible. For example, you can use the script that the talent read during the shoot as a reference script. Alternatively, you could use a transcript typed from the assets for the purposes of close captioning.

Speech Analysis supports reference scripts only in the UTF-8 encoded text format, including Adobe Story scripts, which have the .astx filename extension.

The closeness of the match between the embedded script text and the recorded dialog determines the accuracy of matched-script text. If 100% accuracy is important, edit and revise the script text first. Ensure that the script matches the recorded dialog before using it as a reference script.

Note: To make reference scripts available in Soundbooth, first complete the steps below in Adobe Premiere Pro.

1From the Reference Script menu in the Analyze Content dialog box, choose Add.

2In the displayed dialog box, browse to the reference script text or .astx file, select it, and click OK.

3In the Import Script dialog box, type a name for the reference script, and select the language of the script.

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