Who uses film transcripts
Common uses include:
- Independent filmmakers and students creating subtitles for festival submissions and online release.
- Editors who want a searchable dialogue transcript of rushes or interview footage to build a paper edit.
- Documentary makers transcribing interviews before structuring the story.
- Teachers, film students and researchers studying dialogue, pacing or language in clips for class or research.
- Language learners reading along with a scene in the original language.
Uploading the film
Upload the video file as it is: MP4, MOV, MKV, M4V, AVI, WMV or MPG. Audio is extracted on our side and the timestamps match the original video, so exported subtitles line up with your cut. Large files take longer to upload, but long films are split into chunks and processed in parallel once they arrive.
If you have a dialogue-only stem from your mix, upload that instead of the final mix or alongside a short video export. Music and effects under dialogue lower accuracy, and loud score or action scenes can hide quiet lines. Whispered lines, overlapping dialogue and heavy accents also need more checking.
Correcting the dialogue
Click any line to play from that point and fix character names, invented words, place names and slang in place. Songs in the soundtrack may produce stray lines, and a long silence can occasionally produce a repeated phrase; delete these.
Speaker identification, available on paid plans or with a Minute Pack, can label voices; rename them to character names once. In scenes with many characters, check labels where people speak quickly in turn.
Subtitles and scripts
Export SRT or VTT for subtitle tracks. Both are UTF-8 text files that video platforms, editing software and players such as VLC accept. Subtitles are not burned into the video; add the file as a track or import it into your editor if you want burned-in captions. You may want to adjust line length and timing in a subtitle editor for festival delivery specifications.
DOCX or PDF give a readable dialogue transcript, close to a post-production script you can then format. The transcript is in the spoken language; there is no built-in translation, so subtitles in other languages need a translator.
Copyright
Use this for films you made or have rights to, and for clips you study or research. Publishing transcripts or subtitle files of someone else's film generally needs the rights holder's permission. Files are never used to train AI models, and you can delete them at any time, which matters for unreleased work.