Transcription and Text, Working Together: The Premiere Pro CC I Want

In a digital world, transcription feels like tube amps and mechanical typewriters. It’s an affront to all things modern. In short, it’s a laborious process that kind of sucks. Sure, Premiere Pro has some built-in tools, but they feel mostly like an experiment and a bad one at that. Apple offers a dictation service that is remarkably good with a human voice but falls short when you feed an audio file to it. So how come a better solution doesn’t exist, one that offers a deep integration between the timeline and a transcript? Adobe, if you’re listening, here’s my dream for Premiere Pro CC 2016. Audio Transcription On Ingestion Import a file with audio and Premiere Pro automatically emeds a timecode-based transcript into the file. Text Document That Contains All Transcription In A Sequence Premiere Pro creates a text document based on which portions of a clip are used in a timeline.…

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Deadlines for UnionDocs Summer Documentary Intensive and Collaborative Studio Approaching

UnionDocs’ call for their Summer Documentary Intensive will close this month. If you’re an emerging filmmaker looking for a short-term but immersive program to develop your next project, look no further. Final deadline is March 30th, 2015.

Deadline for UnionDocs Collaborative Studio (CoLAB), a 10 month program for media artists, is April 3rd, 2015.

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Kalish Workshop 2015 Dates Announced

The Kalish Workshop will be holding its next workshop June 12-17, 2015 in Rochester, New York.

This five-day storytelling workshop is taught by Emmy and Pulitzer Prize winning editors. Application deadline is April 1st.

The Kalish Workshop

The Kalish Workshop is an inspirational and intense five-day experience in editing visual storytelling. It is designed to benefit anyone who touches photography with a narrative storyline for online and print.

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MediaStorm Guide to Quickly Scaling Images in Premiere Pro 2014

This article is part of a series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CC after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014 offers two ways to quickly scale a large image to the size of your sequence. To begin, add your image to the timeline, then right-click it. You’ll see two options: Scale to Frame Size and Set to Frame Size. While both options will resize your image, each does so in a slightly different manner. Scale to Frame Size changes the image Scale setting to 100%, effectively throwing out any addition resolution. If you need to further increase your image you will have to up-res it. Using Set to Frame Size will also scale your image to the sequence frame size but it does…

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Job Alert: Assistant Professor in Multiplatform Journalism at Montclair State University

The School of Communication and Media (SCM) at Montclair State University invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Multiplatform Journalism. The successful candidate will be capable of teaching students effectively in the school’s new digital multiplatform newsroom which is under development. This tenure track position requires the ability to teach students hands-on news gathering and production skills using all key mobile devices in the field as well as newsroom-based technology.

For more information visit the job listing at montclair.edu.

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