Let's start with transcription: The value of a new feature is, of course, extremely dependent on your workflow and specific needs. But for documentaries, especially with interviews, AI-based text recognition (only in the studio version) is perhaps the most useful new feature in 18.5. It can even be helpful in feature films if the director likes to let the actors improvise. The selection of languages is wider than that for the programme itself. We tested speech recognition on an entire feature film in order to test it under critical conditions, such as music and strong background noises. Even on a modest MacBook M1 Pro, it ran surprisingly quickly at 4 minutes and 15 seconds for an hour and 42 minutes of film. But then the typical behaviour of today's AI became apparent - the result was somewhere between Wow! and What? Sometimes we were extremely impressed when it still recognised the text correctly despite the film music, where we had difficulties ourselves and had to listen several ti...
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