Cutting subtitles while cutting the video/audio track

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I can see from a different 2017 post that you can’t mark multiple tracks and split and delete them at the time, is that still valid?

Specifically I want to split and cut while updating the subtitle

I’m kind of borrowing a workflow from descript where you import the clip, have it auto transcribed and than start editing by the transcript/subtitles, especially in the initial phase of deleting bad takes and repetitions it feels very useful.

But once I delete the clip the subtitles are now not timed to the clip anymore and I need to regenerate the subtitles.

Any thoughts about tricks I can use?

Generally splitting and editing across tracks seems useful at-least as a beginner, example use case is having two video tracks one with a cropped head and another with a screen share, so they are meant to be kept in sync… if you have tips for this part as well I’m interested.

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No

Specifically I want to split and cut while updating the subtitle … start editing by the transcript/subtitles

Not available yet. Do you want to help code it?

not timed to the clip anymore and I need to regenerate the subtitles

Subtitles can be edited, trimmed, and moved.

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I’m not really sure what it means to “edit by the subtitles”. Maybe you overlay the subtitles and use the text to help you identify specific scenes?

Regardless, if you transcribe the subtitles, and then after editing they are not lined up, you can just delete the subtitles and transcribe them again.

When I implemented the subtitles, the workflow I had in mind is that you would complete the video editing before you work on the subtitles. Mapping video edits to subtitle edits would not be straightforward. What if you make a cut in the middle of a sentence? What should happen to a subtitle that is coincident with that? Should the editor somehow know the cut the subtitle sentence in half? Or just display the full sentence in half the time? Because of complications like these, I think it is unlikely that the video edits will ever affect the subtitle track.

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It is a common feature in pro video editors now. Remove a subtitle item, and it will splice out its corresponding time range on the timeline. Likewise, rearranging them. I have never tried it; it sounds like it will produce rather rough results. But I guess that is OK in the early stage of editing and faster than continually replaying. I added this on our hidden Text features design page a few weeks ago.

I suppose some people do not realize that when you double-click a subtitle item in the panel it seeks the timeline to that spot. Then, one can manually delete from each, for example.

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I didn’t. Very useful feature - thanks.

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Jon! Isn’t it like 3AM in your part of the world? Go to bed! :sleeping: :grin:

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LOL! Caught out!! :smiling_face: Thankfully I was able to catch up with a lie-in the morning after… :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: