Find a clip in any sequence with Clip Usage
- 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Analyze speech to create text metadata
Select a file or clip.
At the bottom of the Metadata panel, click Analyze Speech, or Analyze (Adobe Premiere Pro).
- Set 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.
Click OK.
The spoken words appear in the Speech Analysis section.
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
In the Speech Analysis section, select the word.
Timecode In and Duration indicate the precise location and length of your selection.
To 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.
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.
From the Reference Script menu in the Analyze Content dialog box, choose Add.
In the displayed dialog box, browse to the reference script text or .astx file, select it, and click Open.
In the Import Script dialog box, type a name for the reference script, and select the language of the script.
Note: You can view the text of the file in a scrolling window.Select Script Text Matches Dialog only if the imported script covers the recorded dialog verbatim. For example, if the reference script is the script from which the talent read their lines, select Script Text Matches Dialog. Select this option even if the recorded dialog is shorter than what the script file covers.
Click OK.
The Import Script dialog closes, and the reference script is selected in the Reference Script menu.
Click OK.
Improve speech analysis with Adobe Story scripts (CS5.5 and later)
Speech analysis is more accurate if Adobe Story script data is associated with a clip. Adobe Premiere Pro automatically uses the Adobe Story script as a reference script. When Adobe Premiere Pro finds enough matches with the embedded script, it replaces the analyzed speech text with the embedded script text. Adobe Premiere Pro carries over the correct spelling, proper names, and punctuation from the reference script, benefits that standard speech analysis cannot provide.
To find and fix more errors, you can make side-by-side comparisons of the text of the Adobe Story script with the text of the speech analysis. If a clip has a Story script attached to it, the script is displayed in the Embedded Adobe Story Script view in the Speech Analysis section of the Metadata panel. Compare the script displayed in this view to the results of the speech analysis displayed in the Analysis Text view below it.
To attach an Adobe Story script to a clip or clips:
Match the scene number of the clips to the scene numbers in the Adobe Story script. Adobe Premiere Pro needs the information so that it can match the clips to the correct scenes in the script. You can assign scene numbers to clips in the Project panel or the Metadata panel.
Select one or more clips in the Project panel, right-click and choose Attach Script File or select File > Adobe Story > Attach Script file.
You can also import an Adobe Story script into OnLocation and then import the shots into Adobe Premiere Pro with the script metadata. OnLocation produces a list of shot placeholders for each scene. Either record these shots using OnLocation during production, or link the placeholder shots to their respective video files when you import the video files into OnLocation. In either case, OnLocation embeds the text for each shot from the original script into the metadata of the shot, and the information is retained when the shot is imported intoAdobe Premiere Pro.
Enable or disable a clip
You can disable a clip while you try out a different editing idea, or to shorten processing time when working on a complex project. Disabled clips do not appear in the Program Monitor or in a preview or video file that you export. As long as you have not locked the track containing a disabled clip, you can still make changes to it. If you want to disable all clips on the same track, exclude the entire track instead. See Targeting tracks.
Select one or more clips in a Timeline panel and
choose Clip > Enable. A check mark next to the command
indicates that the selected clips is enabled. Disabled clips appear
dimmed in a Timeline panel.Since it is a common duty for editors
to enable and disable clips, it is recommended that you create a
custom keyboard shortcut for this task. See Customize or load keyboard shortcuts.Group clips
You can group multiple clips so that you can move, disable, copy, or delete them together. Both audio and video tracks of a linked clip are included when you group it with other clips.
You can’t apply clip-based commands, such as the Speed command, or effects to the group, though you can select individual clips in the group and apply effects.
You can trim the exterior edges of the group (the head of the first clip in a group or the tail of the last clip), but you can’t trim any of the interior In and Out points.
- To group clips, select multiple clips, and choose Clip > Group.
- To ungroup clips, select a group clip, and choose Clip > Ungroup.
- To select one or more clips in a group of clips, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) a single clip in a group. Shift+Alt-click (Windows) or Shift+Option-click (Mac OS) to select additional clips in a group.
Snap clips
To make it easier to align clips with one another or with particular points in time, you can activate the snap feature. With Snap on, when you move a clip, it automatically aligns with, or snaps to, the edge of another clip, a marker, the start or end of the time ruler, or the playhead. When you drag a portion of a clip vertically into another track, it will snap to its original time location in the new track. Snapping also helps to ensure you don’t inadvertently perform an insert or overwrite edit when dragging. As you drag clips, a vertical line with arrows appears and indicates when clips are aligned.
Enable and disable the snap feature
At the upper left of a Timeline panel
under the Sequence tab, click the Snap button 
to
select it. Click it again to deselect it.Snap a clip to a clip edge, marker, or playhead
- Make sure that the Snap button is
selected in a Timeline panel.
- Drag the edge of a clip close to the edge of another
clip or a marker or the playhead. A vertical line appears when alignment
occurs. You can toggle the snap feature using a
keyboard shortcut (S) even during an editing operation, such as
moving or trimming a clip.
Aligning clips with the snap feature enabled
