Text-based Editing - Step by Step Guide?

Hi,

I'd like to use Studio's text-based video editing capabilities but I can't find detailed instructions.

The Resolve user manual explains how each individual button/feature works but it doesn't walk you through an end to end example. The couple of videos I found skip through the steps pretty quickly.

The steps as I understand them are:

1. Select a source clip / timeline

-- I'm selecting a timeline because I have 100s of clips in it. (I've already pre-edited out the silence gaps using Recut and imported those edits via XML import)

2. Use the Transcribe button (or menu) to generate a transcription
3. Edit the transcription

4. Create a blank timeline as the target and open it
5. Select all the edited text in the Transcription window
6. Click the Insert button in the lower right-hand corner of the Transcription window to insert the edited video into the new timeline

When I follow the above steps the um's and ah's and words I deleted in the Transcription window still get said in the video, the edits aren't included in the target timeline.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Robert

You should work in the existing timeline. Edit the text and the timeline adapts, the necessary functions are right next to the text in its window. For example, selected text will get temporary in- and out-points set. You can delete, make subclips, or set markers to your hearts delight. Works both in the Cut and the Edit page.

Thanks. I'm working in the existing timeline and I still have the deleted-text portions in the video when I'm listening to it playing back in the timeline. So I'm editing out those portions by hand.

Is the workflow correct that I outlined in my post above? or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Robert

You didn't understand it. Transcript is not subtitling.
You have your transcript done for the source and then start editing based on it.

I understood it -- I'm not doing subtitling, I'm working in the Transcription window. I watched the transcription happen for my source timeline. In the resulting Transcription window text I see the ellipses for silence, etc.

What I'm explaining is, when I edit the text in the Transcription window -- the video is not getting edited, only the text is getting edited.

I'm asking if my workflow above is correct. If it's not correct then what am I missing or doing wrong?

Thanks,
Robert

1.Have an empty timeline with the right size and speed.
2. Let the transcript function analyse your source in the media pool.
3. Now start editing in the text window. Select some text you want use and click the append icon in the text window.
4. Watch your timeline filling up.

Works perfectly fine for me, apart from some gross (and sometimes funny) misunderstandings by the AI.

Ok thanks.

So you're using only the Append feature, correct?

You're not editing in the Transcription window, then Select All, then pasting into the empty timeline? That's supposed to paste only the edited footage into the empty timeline, but that doesn't work for me.

Hopefully Append will work better, I'll try that.

Thanks again,
Robert

Well, I can also delete a few parts in the transcription window (they'll have a stroke through them), mark a whole section, and append that. I never tried for the whole text. You can even have more than one transcript to use copy and paste and make inserts. Why should there be an insert button too, if not? Just experiment once you got the hang of it.
Could well be that it still has its limits regarding size of text selections. After all, it's a pretty young addition to DR.

Yes. I think that's the main thing, it's still a young functionality and will get better over time.

And able to handle more clips and larger volumes of text at once -- the videos I saw demo'ing the functionality had small amounts of text from 1-2 really short clips.

Another shortcoming the Transcribe functionality has is that it overlooks most um's and ah's, which are important to spot and remove.

Right now I'm back to just ear-listening and old-style editing.

Next time I'll try editing the text, then appending each individual text block between the edits. Maybe that will work.

Cheers,
Robert

This may be helpful too:

Thank you.

It turns out that's one of the videos I watched before trying out the functionality.

He's able to Select All in his edited text and paste it all successfully into a blank timeline with all the cuts and edits carried over from the text edit. I was not able to do that.

I think the difference may be scale -- he has one small clip with a small amount of text and a few edits. I have 500 clips with pages of transcribed text and more than a few edits.

But thanks, I'll go through the video again to see if I missed something or am doing something wrong.

Cheers,
Robert