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Guides, updates and notes on transcription, subtitles, summarizing and repurposing video.
How to Add Subtitles to a Video (Soft, Embedded or Burned In)
There are three ways to attach subtitles to a video and they are not interchangeable. A separate .srt file sitting next to the video is the most flexible and the least portable. Embedding the subtitles as a track insi...
How to Get a Transcript of a Facebook, Instagram or Twitter Video
To transcribe a video from Facebook, Instagram, X or TikTok, download the video file first, then run it through a transcription tool. None of these platforms let a third-party tool read a video directly from a link, s...
Why Your YouTube Chapters Aren't Showing Up
YouTube only turns timestamps into chapters when your list meets every one of its rules at once. The first chapter must start at 00:00, there must be at least three of them, each must last at least ten seconds, and th...
How to Convert a Text File to SRT (TXT, Word, RTF and LRC)
A plain text file has no timing information, and an SRT file is almost entirely timing information. So converting one to the other is not really a file conversion. Except for LRC, which already contains timestamps and...
How to Transcribe a Video From Another Language Into English
To turn foreign-language audio into English text, you need a tool that translates as it transcribes, not one that transcribes and then translates. Whisper does this in a single pass with its translate task, and produc...
How to Properly Transcribe an Interview
The first decision in transcribing an interview is not which tool to use. It is how faithful the transcript should be. Verbatim keeps every stumble and filler word. Intelligent verbatim removes them. Clean read tidies...
How to Properly Transcribe an Interview
The first decision in transcribing an interview is not which tool to use. It is how faithful the transcript should be. Verbatim keeps every stumble and filler word. Intelligent verbatim removes them. Clean read tidies...