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Drop an MP4, MOV, or AVI (up to 1 GB) — transcribe video to text with speaker labels and a frame-aligned SRT for Premiere, DaVinci, or Final Cut.

95–98% AI accuracy up to 1 GB / 3 hours 3-day retention · no training Free 10 min · no signup · no credit card

How to transcribe a video to text — 3 steps

Upload the video file, let the AI work on the audio track, then tune the export.

1

Upload the video file

Drag & drop MP4, MOV, MKV, WMV, AVI or WEBM — up to 1 GB and 3 hours. Audio is extracted automatically.

2

AI transcribes

The model converts speech to text with 95–98% accuracy, timestamps every line, and assigns speaker labels.

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Configure & export

Set paragraph length for editorial review and frame-aligned phrase timestamps for the timeline, then drop the SRT into Premiere or DaVinci or send DOCX to a translator.

Privacy and data handling — straight talk

Video files often carry confidential interviews, depositions, medical sessions, or internal recordings. Here's exactly how we handle the upload.

Encrypted in transit

1 GB MP4 uploads ride the same TLS pipe banks use for transactions. The audio extraction and transcript fetch all stay on HTTPS — no plaintext anywhere on the wire.

Auto-deleted after 3 days

Your MP4 plus the derived transcript are scheduled for deletion 3 days after upload. Hit Delete on the project page and both vanish on the next sweep.

No training on your data

Your video footage doesn't feed any model. We extract audio, transcribe, and discard — no archival of footage, no inclusion in training sets, no behavioural fingerprinting.

GDPR-aligned

EU clients have full data rights on every upload. Each video transcript lives at an unguessable URL accessible only from the project's owning account.

Your video content stays private, encrypted, and entirely under your control.

Drop video in, get an SRT for your edit timeline

The audio gets extracted, transcribed, and segmented to caption-friendly line lengths — your video editor reads the SRT directly.

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Drop the video file in

Any common container — MP4, MOV, MKV, WMV, AVI, WEBM, QT. Up to 1 GB and 3 hours per file. Resolution doesn't matter — we only read the audio track.

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Audio track extracted & transcribed

We strip the audio (no re-encode of the picture), run it through the model with 95–98% accuracy, label up to 8 speakers, and generate timestamps tied to the original clip's timeline.

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Drop the SRT into your editor's caption track

Lines pre-segmented to caption-friendly length (≤ 42 chars). Frame-aligned timestamps in HH:MM:SS,ms SRT or HH:MM:SS.ms VTT — both round to your edit's frame rate without drift.

Tested with
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Final Cut Pro
  • CapCut & CapCut Pro
  • Avid Media Composer
  • Camtasia, ScreenFlow
  • YouTube Studio (re-upload)
  • Subtitle Edit, Aegisub

Frame-rate aware — works with 24, 25, 29.97, and 30 fps timelines without timestamp drift.

Supported video formats

Every common video container — every common transcript format on the way out.

Video in
MP4MOVMKVWMVAVIWEBMQT
Limits
up to 1 GBup to 3 hoursany resolution
Transcript out
TXTDOCXPDFSRTVTTCSVClipboard

Configure your video transcript the way you need it

Most video transcript generators dump a single wall of text. Ours emits frame-aligned SRT and VTT for any NLE plus paragraph-tuned DOCX for editorial review.

Timestamps

Frame-aligned to your timeline

The biggest win for video. Paragraph timestamps for editorial cut points; phrase timestamps frame-aligned to the picture for line-by-line conforming. Both when scripting; off for translator hand-off.

Paragraphs → cut pointsPhrases → frame-alignedBothOff
Speakers

Label per shot or per scene

Critical for documentary interviews and panel footage. Auto-labelled by voice, then rename per shot in the editor — Director, Subject A, Subject B — or merge consecutive turns when one speaker dominates a take.

Speaker namesMerge by speakerHide
Paragraph length

Tuned for editorial review

Auto-detect or fix every paragraph at 1, 2, 3, 4, or 8 lines. Tight rhythm for caption drafts; longer paragraphs for editorial review or for handing the transcript to a translator.

Auto1 line2 lines3 lines4 lines8 lines
Plain text mode

Bare text for translators & scripts

One toggle strips timestamps, labels, and formatting. The result drops cleanly into translation memory tools (Trados, MemoQ), a scriptwriter's draft, or an AI summarizer.

Plain text mode

Two more controls — pause-threshold breaks and one-click clipboard — round out the panel. See all 6 on the hub.

Languages handled across video sources

These languages return reliably across documentary, interview, conference, and field-recorded video. Auto-detect picks the right one; multilingual cuts work too.

  • English
  • Spanish
  • Mandarin Chinese
  • Portuguese
  • German
  • French
  • Italian
  • Russian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Hindi
  • Arabic

Field-recorded multilingual interview? Run a short clip on the free tier before committing the full footage.

Use cases for video file transcription

One uploaded MP4 — every downstream workflow that needs the words on screen.

Business meetings & conferences

Drop the Zoom or Teams recording, get a searchable transcript with speaker labels — perfect for action items and minutes.

Educational content & lectures

Transcribe recorded lectures, seminars, and on-demand courses into study notes — with timestamps for quick reference.

Media & content creation

A video transcriber that extracts dialogue and B-roll narration from interviews and documentaries — straight from MP4 to text on the editorial timeline.

Legal & compliance

Transcribe depositions, hearings, and recorded testimony with timestamps — line-citable, audit-ready.

Interviews & research

The video transcript generator converts qualitative research video sessions into coding-ready transcripts — speakers separated, ready for analysis tools.

Subtitle & caption creators

Generate caption-ready SRT/VTT for any video player — Premiere, DaVinci, Final Cut, YouTube Studio.

Free tier — try before you commit

Free video transcription on every account — test the engine on your own footage before committing. No credit card. Top up only when you need more minutes.

Free

10 minutes / month Full features. No signup. No watermark. No subscription.

Top-up

From $4.99 Single payment for a minute pack. Minutes never expire — no monthly reset, no subscription.
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Video transcription FAQ

The questions we hear most from people transcribing video files — answered straight.

How accurate is video transcription, really?
95–98% on clean studio dialogue. Field-recorded footage with traffic noise, on-set background music, or thick accents lands around 95% — sometimes lower. The hero number is the ceiling; plan a review pass for anything you'll publish.
Does the video resolution affect transcription?
No. Only the audio track is analysed — a 4K, 1080p, or 480p source transcribes at the same speed and accuracy. What matters is the audio quality, not the picture.
How long does video transcription take?
It depends on file length and current load. Most videos complete within several minutes per hour of footage; longer or busy-period uploads take longer. You'll see live progress and can leave the tab — we keep working in the background.
What if my source has poor audio quality?
The transcript will still come back, but expect mistakes. Background noise, distant mics, overlapping voices — these are where AI struggles. Open the editor, scrub the audio while you fix the lines that matter, then export.

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