Text based editing
Text based editing with Adobe Premiere Pro. Recently we filmed 10 interviews for Robert Johnson at the AAQEP Institute conference right here in Salt Lake City, Utah. Overall, we had almost 3 hours of footage to condense into short 2-3 minute videos. Anyone who has undergone this type of task with editing knows that it is a time consuming project.
Premiere pro text based editing
Enter Adobe Premiere Pro new text based editing tool currently in a beta test platform. The timing could not have been better. I was just about to jump into the hours of footage when I got an email from Adobe about its new text based editing feature! Needless to say, I was eager to give it a try!
Condensing 3 hours of raw footage
Robert wanted a say in the video editing process. Normally, this is not how we do it, I had already sent him the transcripts from each interview. There were a total of 5 videos on different subjects that we were planning on editing. He sent me a text document outlining the various text quotes from the people interviewed that he wanted to include in each video. Normally this would be a timely task, scrubbing through each interview to find the exact statements from every single interview that he wanted for each video, and then combining them together.
Text based editing was so simple to use!
After watching a brief explainer video, I pulled up the first interview. All I had to do was select the start of the text that Robert wanted, make a cut, and then select the end of the text and make another cut. I was able to do what usually would have taken me hours to scrub through in less than 30 minutes! This was mind blowing! I could not believe how simple it was to use! I was able to cut out all 5 video subjects in less than 2 hours! (This would normally take me 2 days to do!) After that I just did the final names, titles, logos, and music!
We saved time and money with adobe’s text based editing
We had a very strict budget for editing, after using Adobe’s new text based editing platform, we came in well under budget! This simply put a big smile on my face! Robert was very happy with the end result, so was the team at AAQEP.
Conclusion we plan on using text based editing on most many upcoming projects
Levitate plans on including this platform in all of our interviews from here on out! It is so simple, drag your mouse to the start of the text you want to use, cut the clip and continue! This new tool is simple, but it also has streamlined the video editing process! Let me know what you think!
