Save your project and close Premiere Pro. Clear your media cache by navigating to Preferences > Media Cache and clicking Remove Media Cache Files . Restart your computer, reopen the project, and try transcribing a single clip rather than the entire sequence to test performance.
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"Moving the heavy lifting to the local GPU was the only way forward," explains an Adobe Lead Engineer speaking on background regarding the v21 architecture. "With v21, we aren't just transcribing; we are understanding context, emotion, and pacing directly on the user's machine. No latency, no upload wait times. It happens faster than real-time playback." Save your project and close Premiere Pro