Transcribed Audio Editor - Keyboard Shortcut and Text Select
Posted: Thu May 22, 2025 2:24 pmHi everyone,
First of all, I want to say a big thank you to the DaVinci Resolve team for the ongoing improvements to the transcribed audio workflow. It’s becoming more and more usable with each version. In version 20, I’ve noticed two specific fixes that really made a difference:
In version 19, when editing a transcribed segment, the space before the edited word would often disappear — “I want to go to the sstore” and selected just the misspelled word “sstore” to correct it, after editing I would end up with “I want to go to thestore”. This is no longer an issue in version 20 — much appreciated!
Also in version 19, editing the last word of a paragraph sometimes caused it to jump visually, often landing half a line above and becoming unreadable. This too has been fixed in v20.
These improvements are extremely helpful — thank you!
That said, I’d like to suggest two feature requests that would significantly improve the editing process for transcribed audio:
1. Keyboard Shortcut to Open the Edit Dialog
When working through long transcripts, I often need to make many small corrections. At the moment, every edit requires a right-click to bring up the menu and then selecting "Edit" with the mouse. It would be fantastic to have a keyboard shortcut (or even the ability to remap one via the keyboard customization menu) that instantly opens the edit field for the currently selected segment. This would save a lot of time and strain.
2. Better Text Selection with Keyboard
Currently, standard keyboard-based text selection (Shift + arrow keys) is quite limited — it allows selecting only one word at a time and cancels the previous selection as soon as you move to the next. This makes it hard to select a phrase or multiple words without using the mouse. Ideally, text selection should behave like it does in most text editors: Shift + arrow keys should allow smooth expansion of the selection without resetting the highlight.
Both of these features would bring the transcript editor much closer to the speed and comfort of professional text editing tools — which would be a huge benefit when working with dialogue-heavy projects.
Thanks again for your work, and I hope these suggestions are helpful!
Best,
Anton
First of all, I want to say a big thank you to the DaVinci Resolve team for the ongoing improvements to the transcribed audio workflow. It’s becoming more and more usable with each version. In version 20, I’ve noticed two specific fixes that really made a difference:
In version 19, when editing a transcribed segment, the space before the edited word would often disappear — “I want to go to the sstore” and selected just the misspelled word “sstore” to correct it, after editing I would end up with “I want to go to thestore”. This is no longer an issue in version 20 — much appreciated!
Also in version 19, editing the last word of a paragraph sometimes caused it to jump visually, often landing half a line above and becoming unreadable. This too has been fixed in v20.
These improvements are extremely helpful — thank you!
That said, I’d like to suggest two feature requests that would significantly improve the editing process for transcribed audio:
1. Keyboard Shortcut to Open the Edit Dialog
When working through long transcripts, I often need to make many small corrections. At the moment, every edit requires a right-click to bring up the menu and then selecting "Edit" with the mouse. It would be fantastic to have a keyboard shortcut (or even the ability to remap one via the keyboard customization menu) that instantly opens the edit field for the currently selected segment. This would save a lot of time and strain.
2. Better Text Selection with Keyboard
Currently, standard keyboard-based text selection (Shift + arrow keys) is quite limited — it allows selecting only one word at a time and cancels the previous selection as soon as you move to the next. This makes it hard to select a phrase or multiple words without using the mouse. Ideally, text selection should behave like it does in most text editors: Shift + arrow keys should allow smooth expansion of the selection without resetting the highlight.
Both of these features would bring the transcript editor much closer to the speed and comfort of professional text editing tools — which would be a huge benefit when working with dialogue-heavy projects.
Thanks again for your work, and I hope these suggestions are helpful!
Best,
Anton