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Version: 0.4.6

Export Subtitles and Transcripts

Export timed subtitle files or a readable transcript from your current edit or the original recordings.

You need to transcribe the media first. See Transcribe Your Footage.

Export your transcript​

  1. Choose File → Export → Subtitles / Transcript….
  2. Select the recordings to include. Only media with transcripts appears in the list.
  3. Choose Timeline edit or Full transcript.
  4. Choose at least one format and any options you need.
  5. Click Export….

Choose between the edit and the full recording​

Timeline edit uses the transcribed words that remain in enabled timeline clips. Its timing follows the edited sequence, so choose it when the subtitles need to match your exported video.

Full transcript uses each recording's original timing. Timeline cuts and disabled clips do not affect it. This is useful for an archive or a transcript of everything recorded, but it may restore material you meant to leave out of the edit. Check the files before sharing them.

Choose formats and optional fields​

You can export one or more formats at once:

  • SRT and VTT are timed subtitle files.
  • Plain text is a readable transcript without subtitle cues.

Timestamps adds a time such as [00:12:35] to each plain-text paragraph. It does not change SRT or VTT files. Speaker labels mark speaker changes in every format.

Apply module results to a full transcript​

A Full transcript can apply results from tools you already ran:

  • Retakes keeps only the winning take from each retake group.
  • Umm removal leaves out words that Detect Umms marked for automatic removal.
  • Rough cut leaves out sentences that a Rough Cut would remove.

These filters do not appear for Timeline edit because the timeline already contains the edits you applied.

Choose combined or separate files​

For Timeline edit, One combined file preserves the sequence order across recordings. One file per media separates each recording, but every file still uses timeline timing.

A Full transcript always creates separate files because each recording has its own clock.

Combined files use the project name. Separate files use the recording name without its original extension and go into the folder you choose. If you select several formats, each gets its own extension, such as .srt, .vtt, or .txt.

Subtitle exports overwrite existing target files without asking. This includes every selected format in a combined export and every generated recording name in a separate-file export. Choose an empty folder or move any files you need to keep before exporting.

In Timeline edit, selected media contributes nothing if none of it remains on the timeline. If the whole export is empty, select media that still appears in the edit or switch to Full transcript. For a full transcript emptied by module filters, turn off the filters you do not want.