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Download the video (.mp4) and caption (.vtt) files from the zoom web interface when they have finished processing.
- Note: if you are using both the audio transcript and live transcript options in Zoom, you may get two separate caption files. They're not identical, so you could review each to see which is a better starting point.
Convert .vtt file to .srt format: https://www.happyscribe.com/subtitle-tools/convert-vtt-to-srt
Open Adobe Premier Pro and start a new project
Import the .mp4 and .srt files
Drag the video onto the timeline, ensuring that the video is in V1 and the audio is in A1.
In my attempt, it included a transcript track at the end in V1, so I just selected and deleted it.
Drag the transcript onto the timeline. Make sure that it is in V2.
Open the .srt file in a text editor and look for the first timestamp. In Premier, move the transcript track to that timestamp.
Use the razorblade tool to trim at the beginning and end of the video, if necessary. Delete the tracks before the trim mark and move all of them to the starting position.
Double click the transcription track to open in a new panel. Resize to make it larger. Edit transcript as necessary.
With captions selected, go to "File" -> "Export" -> "Media". The format should be H.264, match the source. In the "Captions" tab: select "Create Sidecar File" and select "SubRip Subtitle Format (.srt). Then click "Export".
Rename the file to "First-Wednesday-[Month]-[Day]-[Year].mp4"
Upload the video to Warpwire. Once uploaded, add the srt file
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ask speakers for their slides (either a link or a file)
- if speakers share a file, upload as an attachment to the wiki schedule page
- add links to slides into the wiki schedule page
- add link to Warpwire recording to the wiki schedule page
- send follow-up email to the five everyone lists with links to slides and recording and any additional announcements
A note on captioning recordings
- The captions from Zoom seem to have some issues. They don't have reasonable punctuation or capitalization, and often the chunks of text presented on the screen for the same time range can be very long - 3 to 4 lines, taking up a large portion of the recording when viewed.
- It would be nicer to have short blocks of well-formatted text, but manually splitting up the Zoom captions into smaller chunks is very time consuming.
- At Duke, we have access to Panopto, and Panopto has auto-captioning functionality that works better than Zoom's.
- If you want to try Panopto instead, you can do the following:
- download the audio-only file from Zoom (smaller file, easier to work with than the video)
- log into https://library.capture.duke.edu/ with your netid
- On the left, click on My Folder
- At the top, click on the Create button, and select Upload Media
- Upload the audio file
- After the file has been uploaded and processed, you should see the file show up in the list of things in your folder
- If you hover over the audio file, you should be able to see a "Settings" option
- Clicking on Settings opens up a new overlay
- On the left menu, click on Captions
- You should see an option at the top to "order" automatically generated captions
- After the "order" is placed, you will need to wait a bit for them to generate
- When they are ready, you can download the captions as a .srt file and then upload them directly into Adobe Premiere Pro for general clean up and video editing