I routinely capture a LOT of corporate "talking head" or interview based video and then have to splice it together.
Many times the video I shoot can end up being up to 1+ hours of different people that I have to condense down to a 5 minute video.
Over the years, I have either watched all the snippets and hand-written what people have said .. or ... watched the snippets and typed out what people have said .. or ... watched the snippets and then dragged and dropped them into the timeline and edited.
Using the text method allows me to quickly go through and highlight "what I want" and then pull the related snippets into the edit. I can also "search" for phrases and words after I've done this which is also helpful. Lastly, I can fire off the typed text to other individuals involved to get their input as well.
Dragging clips into the timeline is great, but it precludes that you have the individual who is in charge of the project there with you .. and you can spend a lot of time in the day. These people are not available for this (in my case) so most times, it's not an option. That's why the text version, rough edits and .wmv or .flv output files for final approval are what I normally (90%) end up using.
I was hoping that when I took Premiere Pro CS4 for a run, that it's new "extract audio" feature would be revolutionary for me. It has been a great dissappointment instead in that it has been nothing short of lame in "desciphering" audio to text.
<b>My Question:</b>
Other than Dragon Naturally Speaking .... does anyone have any tips, suggestions, ideas or magic potions that would "decently" extract text from audio files. Project by project, typing out over 1 hour's worth of talking is killing my productivity.
P.S. - due to the economy ... assistants (to extract the audio and do the typing) are not an option .. :(
Thanks in advance,...