Can I upload a video over 2GB for transcription? Yes, up to 5 GB.
Yes: videos up to 5 GB and 10 hours are accepted, with or without a pack, so a file over 2 GB starts right away with a free preview of the opening minutes. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. Its audio track alone is a far smaller upload.
Past two gigabytes
Three ways to get a big video in.
Buy a pack, then upload
A pack is not needed for size: files up to 5 GB upload with or without one. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. Drop the file on the upload page afterwards.
Paste a link instead
When the video is on YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Kick or Google Drive, a link avoids sending gigabytes at all. YouTube live replays count too; for other sites, download the video and upload it.
Send only the sound
Transcription needs the audio, not the picture. Exporting the audio from a 3 GB two-hour video leaves roughly 115 MB at 128 kbps, a far quicker upload, and the free preview of the opening minutes applies either way.
Over 5 GB or 10 hours
Above 5 GB, export the audio or a smaller copy of the video. Above 10 hours, split at a pause into two files. Either way, chapters and timestamps come back for each part.
Large video
Why 2 GB is usually where uploads stop.
✗ The usual ceilings
Browser uploaders and many caption tools give up long before a feature-length file.
- Upload limits set at a gigabyte or two
- A 25 MB cap on the OpenAI Whisper API
- Video re-encoded by hand to fit
- Hour-long chunks queued one by one
- Captions misaligned across chunks
- Pricing per upload, not per minute
✓ Gigabytes, then text
Big files go up whole and are priced by minutes of speech.
- Up to 5 GB per file
- Over 2 GB, no pack needed
- Two hours of video in about four minutes
- Captions aligned from start to end
- Brief and chapters for the video
- TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT, JSON
Sample output
Ninety minutes into a 3 GB keynote video.
Illustrative excerpt, not a real event or speaker.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $4 (300 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.
Casual pack
$4/300 min
5 hours of audio — $0.80 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 300 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$18/3,000 min
50 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 3,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$32/6,000 min
100 hours of audio — $0.32 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 6,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Videos over 2 GB, answered.
Is there a size limit before the first pack?
Before any purchase, uploads already go up to 5 GB, and most audio files sit far below that. With a pack on the account the cap rises to 5 GB and big videos start immediately. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
How much will my large video cost?
It depends on duration alone. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. Up to 3,000 minutes, the $18 pack.
Will the free preview work on a 3 GB video?
Not on the video itself, because it is over 2 GB. Upload the audio track instead: you read the free preview, and a pack then transcribes the rest from where it stopped. Most video editors and free converters can save the sound alone as MP3 or M4A in a minute or two.
How long does processing take?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio. A 2-hour video is ready in about 4 minutes, and on the public proof page 9.31 hours finished in 1,033 seconds.
Can I get subtitles for the video?
Yes: SRT and VTT exports carry timestamps for the full length, alongside TXT, DOCX and JSON. Music and sound effects are left out, and the speech is what gets captioned.
Is a video this size kept private?
It is transcribed on our own servers and is never used for training. Speakers are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters rather than on every line, and all 99 supported languages are detected automatically.
Related
More on big video files.
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