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Transcription for documentary producers every interview searchable before the edit.

A documentary producer with a 90-minute interview gets searchable text back in about 3 minutes, with key quotes, chapters and SRT for subtitles. Twenty 90-minute interviews are 1,800 minutes, which fits the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes, and the opening minutes are a free preview.

Packs from $4, credits never expire · then from $0.32/hour · Credits never expire · Never used to train AI

✓An interview in about 3 minutes · ✓Quotes for the paper edit · ✓SRT for subtitles · ✓Free preview of the opening minutes

What a documentary producer records

Hours of interviews and archive material, turned into text an editor can cut from.

Rushes without the camera originals

Camera originals are often far larger than 5 GB. An audio-only export or a small proxy from your editing software carries the same speech at a fraction of the size, as long as your software can export one. Files up to 500 MB go into the box on this page; anything larger continues on the main upload page.

The paper edit, started

Each interview returns with a brief of its themes, key quotes, chapters with timestamps and the names, dates and places mentioned. Pull the strongest lines into a DOCX and the paper edit has its first draft.

Archive tapes and found footage

Digitised tapes, old broadcasts and material already on YouTube, Vimeo or a shared Google Drive folder can be pasted as links or uploaded as files. Music and sound effects are not transcribed, so a montage comes back as the speech in it.

A production, priced

Twenty interviews of 90 minutes are 1,800 minutes, inside the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.

Where an edit loses time

The line you need is somewhere in thirty hours of interviews.

✗ Logging by hand

Assistant producers log rushes by ear, and the director remembers a line but not which day it was said.

Logs written by hand, tape by tape
A remembered quote that can't be found
Archive tapes nobody has time to review
Subtitles typed from scratch
Transcription waits that hold up the edit
Upload tools that cap file size

✓ Every interview searchable

Each file returns as text with quotes, chapters and timestamps the editor can jump to.

About 3 minutes for a 90-minute interview
Key quotes ready for selects
Contributors named in the summary and quotes
Search across the whole shoot
SRT and VTT for the cut
Credits that last through the edit

Sample

Part of an interview, transcribed.

An illustrative sample written for this page; it is not from a real film, production or contributor.

transcript · whipscribe.com/view/long-recordings-for-documentary-producers

00:00:40 Just say your name and how you came to the valley, and look at me, not the lens.

00:19:25 The first winter we had nothing. We lived in the barn while the house was rebuilt.

00:46:10 When the flood came, the water reached the second step of the church. I marked it with a nail.

01:05:55 Can you say that again, and start with 'when the flood came'?

01:28:30 That's a wrap for the interview. Let's get some shots of the nail before the light goes.

Export

One transcript. Five clean formats.

Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.

.txt

Plain text

De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.

.srt

SRT captions

Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.

.vtt

WebVTT

HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.

.docx

Show notes

Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.

.json

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

Get 300 minutes

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

Get 3,000 minutes

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

Get 6,000 minutes

FAQ

Documentary producers ask these first.

Do the timestamps match my camera timecode?

No, and that is the caution worth knowing before the edit. Timestamps count from the start of the file you upload, not from the source timecode, so if your clip starts at a non-zero timecode, add that offset when you match a quote back to the timeline.

How long does an interview take?

About 2 minutes per hour of audio: a 90-minute interview in about 3 minutes and a full 8-hour shoot day in about 16.

What is the size limit?

One file up to 10 hours or 5 GB. With or without a pack on the account, an upload can be up to 5 GB. Longer than 10 hours means two files.

Can I use the SRT for subtitles?

Yes. Download SRT or VTT and import them into your editor or player. Review them once for names and places before delivery, and remember the timing follows the uploaded file.

The interviews are in several languages. Does that work?

WhipScribe detects 99 languages automatically, and each interview comes back in the language spoken. A recording that switches language is detected on its main language.

Is unreleased footage kept private?

Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. Exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, and they stay with your production.

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