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Text-Based Editing

Traverse a transcript to identify sections of your media you’d like to edit.

Written by Hanna

Getting started

To get started, open the editor and click the “Transcript” icon in the left-hand menu.

When you play your media, the playhead moves along the timeline as expected, and the text will also be actively highlighted as the speaker talks. You’ll have two distinct ways to scrub the timeline and find moments in your media for precise edits.

Tip

Search for keywords in the transcript search bar, and we'll highlight all instances in which the keyword appears.

Editing via transcript

The entire transcript container is interactive. You can click on individual words to scrub to that portion of your content, highlight words and sections to keep or delete, or generally scroll through the transcript.

As a user of text-based editing, you can take all current timeline-based actions. You can:

  • Delete via Keyboard shortcut

  • Split, which will create a paragraph break in the transcript text as well

  • Undo or Redo

If you edit the transcript (i.e., delete/split), the changes will be reflected on the timeline. If you edit directly on the timeline (i.e., split, delete, rearrange clips), those changes will be reflected visually in the transcript.

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