Best way to create a transcript - raw footage

goldentwig wrote on 9/26/2006, 6:47 PM
I am looking for the best way (hopefully a shortcut) to log the audio dialog from all of my clips for my current project, which are in the Vegas Media Manager. In college I had to transcribe all the interview segments by hand, so now I am grateful to find programs such as "Inqscribe" that help with the process. But what slows me down is that when I captured the footage using Scenalyzer and chopped everything into small clips, I have about 70 different short files! Does Vegas have anything in place that helps with this process? The best I could find in Media Manager is a field called "Comments," but the text from even the short segments tends to get pretty long from that.

Any ideas?
Thanks!!

Comments

PeterWright wrote on 9/26/2006, 6:57 PM
I've done a fair bit of transcribing with my "two finger typing" - a dual monitor helps - on one place the 70 clips the clips along the Vegas time line, on the other monitor MSWord or whatever text program, and it's a question of play/pause/stop etc.

If your transcription is to be used for subtitles in a DVD, then pay attention to how you place each segment on each line - this can be directly imported as separate subtitles and can save much time. Even better, the transcription can be put straight in to the name of a region then exporting Regions as subtitles - which will already have their duration and position determined ready for DVDA.
goldentwig wrote on 9/27/2006, 1:36 PM
Well I was kind of wondering if Vegas gives you a "field" in which to store the text associated with each clip, BEFORE you place them on the time line. Regions are cool for subtitles later on, but they are dependent on the timeline and can tend to slide around when content is moved on the timeline I've found.

What I think would be REALLY cool (perhaps a future product feature) is the ability to transcribe the audio, "attach it" somehow to that clip in the Bins, and then be able to SEARCH that text field and pull up all matching clips. So if I have a bunch of interviews and want to find the people who gave a reply that contained the word "red," I could search on "red" and it would pull up those clips!!
Logan5 wrote on 9/27/2006, 2:19 PM
I've dictated to an mp3 recorder, then had someone transcribe it for me.
GlennChan wrote on 9/27/2006, 10:35 PM
You can add regions to clips in the *trimmer*. Regions can't be searched AFAIK... however, I didn't think about export regions as subtitles. You may be able to search things externally / outside Vegas.
craftech wrote on 9/28/2006, 5:09 AM
This concept of writing transcriptions got me curious. I have had to do it a few times by hand and it took a really long time. I looked at "inqscribe" and it seemed like it wouldn't save all that much time so I did a search of transcription software and found a freeware called Express Scribe that is an audio only software with a host of features. It is also claims to work with popular voice recognition software like Dragon Naturally Speaking.

What do you think? Does it sound useful?

John