Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 - Manual (Page 273)

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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.
Note: To make reference scripts available in Soundbooth, first complete the steps below in Adobe Premiere Pro.
1. From the Reference Script menu in the Analyze Content dialog box, choose Add.
2. In the displayed dialog box, browse to the reference script text or .astx file, select it, and click Open.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Click OK.
The Import Script dialog closes, and the reference script is selected in the Reference Script menu.
6. 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.
Note: The Embedded Adobe Story Script view is read only. You can't perform editing operations in it.
To attach an Adobe Story script to a clip or clips:
1. 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.
2. Select one or more clips in the Project panel, right-click and choose Attach Script File or select File > Adobe Story > Attach Script file.
Note: An Adobe Story script cannot be attached to a Merged Clip. If, however, a Story script was attached to a component clip prior to the merge,
the merged clip may be analyzed using the previously attached Story script.
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.
Select one or more clips
When you want to perform an action that affects a clip as a whole, such as applying an effect, deleting a clip, or moving a clip in time, first select
the clip in a Timeline panel. The Tools panel contains selection tools that can handle various selection tasks.
Do any of the following:
To select a single clip, use the Selection tool and click a clip in a Timeline panel.
To select only the audio or video portion of a clip, use the Selection tool and Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) that portion.
To select multiple clips by clicking, use the Selection tool and Shift-click each clip you want to select. (Shift-click a selected clip to deselect
it.)
To select a range of clips, click in an empty area of the sequence under the time ruler, and then drag a rectangle (marquee selection) that
includes any part of the clips you want to select.
To add or subtract a range of clips in the current selection, Shift-drag a marquee around clips. Shift-dragging a marquee that includes
deselected clips adds them to the current selection. Shift-dragging a marquee that includes selected clips deselects them.
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