diff --git a/src/editors/data/redux/thunkActions/video.js b/src/editors/data/redux/thunkActions/video.js
index 9bbe75b36..96539ae0d 100644
--- a/src/editors/data/redux/thunkActions/video.js
+++ b/src/editors/data/redux/thunkActions/video.js
@@ -107,10 +107,25 @@ export const parseTranscripts = ({ transcriptsData }) => {
   if (!transcriptsData) {
     return [];
   }
-  const startString = 'language.", "value": ';
   const cleanedStr = transcriptsData.replace(/"/g, '"');
-  const metadataStr = cleanedStr.substring(cleanedStr.indexOf(startString) + startString.length, cleanedStr.indexOf(', "type": "VideoTranslations"'));
-  return Object.keys(JSON.parse(metadataStr));
+  const startString = '"transcripts": ';
+  const endString = ', "youtube_id_0_75": ';
+  const transcriptsJson = cleanedStr.substring(
+    cleanedStr.indexOf(startString) + startString.length,
+    cleanedStr.indexOf(endString),
+  );
+  // const transcriptsObj = JSON.parse(transcriptsJson);
+  try {
+    const transcriptsObj = JSON.parse(transcriptsJson);
+    return Object.keys(transcriptsObj.value);
+  } catch (error) {
+    if (error instanceof SyntaxError) {
+      console.error('Invalid JSON:', error.message);
+    } else {
+      throw error;
+    }
+    return [];
+  }
 };
 
 // partially copied from frontend-app-learning/src/courseware/course/course-license/CourseLicense.jsx
diff --git a/src/editors/data/redux/thunkActions/video.test.js b/src/editors/data/redux/thunkActions/video.test.js
index 7f98921e2..4806a0a4d 100644
--- a/src/editors/data/redux/thunkActions/video.test.js
+++ b/src/editors/data/redux/thunkActions/video.test.js
@@ -247,6 +247,26 @@ describe('video thunkActions', () => {
       });
     });
   });
+  describe('parseTranscripts', () => {
+    const testStudioViewDataWithTranscripts = 'de descarga debajo del video.", "value": "", "type": "Generic", "options": []}, "transcripts": {"explicitly_set": false, "default_value": {}, "field_name": "transcripts", "display_name": "Idiomas de transcripci\\u00f3n", "help": "A\\u00f1ada transcripciones en diferentes idiomas. Haga clic a continuaci\\u00f3n para especificar un idioma y subir un archivo .srt de transcripci\\u00f3n para dicho idioma.", "value": {"aa": "non_existent_dummy_file_name", "ab": "non_existent_dummy_file_name", "ba": "non_existent_dummy_file_name", "en": "external video-en.txt"}, "type": "VideoTranslations", "options": [], "custom": true, "languages": [{"label": "Abkhazian", "code": "ab"}], "urlRoot": "/xblock/block-v1:GalileoX+XS_Mate001+3T2022+type@video+block@20bc09f5522d430f8e43c2bc377b348c/handler/studio_transcript/translation"}, "youtube_id_0_75": {';
+    const testStudioViewData = 'de descarga debajo del video.", "value": "", "type": "Generic", "options": []}, "transcripts": {"explicitly_set": false, "default_value": {}, "field_name": "transcripts", "display_name": "Idiomas de transcripci\\u00f3n", "help": "A\\u00f1ada transcripciones en diferentes idiomas. Haga clic a continuaci\\u00f3n para especificar un idioma y subir un archivo .srt de transcripci\\u00f3n para dicho idioma.", "value": {}, "type": "VideoTranslations", "options": [], "custom": true, "languages": [{"label": "Abkhazian", "code": "ab"}], "urlRoot": "/xblock/block-v1:GalileoX+XS_Mate001+3T2022+type@video+block@20bc09f5522d430f8e43c2bc377b348c/handler/studio_transcript/translation"}, "youtube_id_0_75": {';
+    const testBadStudioViewData = 'tHiSiSaBAdDaTa';
+    it('returns an array of languages given a JSON string', () => {
+      expect(thunkActions.parseTranscripts({
+        transcriptsData: testStudioViewDataWithTranscripts,
+      })).toEqual(['aa', 'ab', 'ba', 'en']);
+    });
+    it('returns an empty array when there are no transcripts', () => {
+      expect(thunkActions.parseTranscripts({
+        transcriptsData: testStudioViewData,
+      })).toEqual([]);
+    });
+    it('returns an empty array given an unparsable JSON string', () => {
+      expect(thunkActions.parseTranscripts({
+        transcriptsData: testBadStudioViewData,
+      })).toEqual([]);
+    });
+  });
   describe('parseLicense', () => {
     const emptyLicenseData = null;
     const noLicense = 'sOMeHTml data-metadata "license" "value"= null, "type"';