The future of video is searchable
Speech Search, found in Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS4 and Soundbooth® CS4, solves one of the biggest challenges in taking video online by turning spoken dialogue into keywords, making your video searchable. Search the dialogue in your assets to accelerate editing in Adobe Premiere Pro and find key sections instantly. When you render your video as an FLV or F4V file, the keywords automatically travel with your clip. After you generate an XML file in Soundbooth, simply combine both into a customized SWF video player and your video dialogue can be searched with keywords highlighted.
Search this video online
You learn a lot about a video when you can easily see the top keywords spoken in it. Click on any of the keywords in the Top Keywords section above and you'll see in the list to the right of the video where the word is spoken in context along with the timecode. For example, click on "effects" or "premiere" to see how many times that keyword was spoken in the video.
If you're looking for a particular topic, simply type in a keyword or phrase, such as "After Effects" or "Photoshop," and then click the search button. Just below the search term, you'll see a listing of each time those words were spoken in the video. Double-click each instance of the search phrase and you'll be taken to the place in the video where the word or phrase is spoken.
To learn how to create a searchable video using Adobe Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium software and to customize your own player using ActionScript®, read this white paper.
To find out more about how XMP metadata can help simplify your workflow in Production Premium, read this tutorial in the Adobe Developer Connection.
Download a custom player
In their recent book, "After Effects for Flash, Flash for After Effects," Richard Harrington and Marcus Geduld wrote a chapter on making video accessible featuring Speech Search in Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth. Download an excerpt from the book here, or view the tutorial on ProVideo Coalition. You'll learn how to use Speech Search to generate a transcript and cue points for searchable video. The authors also provide a SWF player to enable searchable video on your own website.
