Transcribe a 4-hour deposition before the certified copy arrives.
A 4-hour deposition is 240 minutes of audio and is transcribed in about 8 minutes; the videographer's MP4 is often 2 to 5 GB, while the audio track alone is around 230 MB. That is 240 of the 300 minutes in the $4 pack, and the opening minutes are a free preview.
Four hours of testimony
Read the witness's answers the same afternoon, not next week.
The video file or the audio
Video depositions arrive as MP4 from the videographer; remote ones are often saved from Zoom or Teams. Send the audio track if you have it, since it is far lighter. Files up to 500 MB go in the box here and larger ones on the upload page, up to 5 GB.
Topics of examination as chapters
Background, the contract, the meetings, the documents, damages. Chapters follow the examining attorney's turns with timestamps, so the hour about one meeting can be opened, read and quoted without replaying the morning.
Admissions, dates and exhibits
The brief lists the dates, amounts and exhibit numbers spoken during the deposition and the questions the testimony answers. The chat finds where the witness first mentioned the email, with the timestamp to check it against the video.
A case's depositions, priced
Six 4-hour depositions are 1,440 minutes, inside the $18 pack of 3,000 with 1,560 left. Ten of them are 2,400 minutes, which takes the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes.
The days in between
The court reporter's certified copy is days away. The next witness is tomorrow.
✗ Notes and memory
The team prepares from the notes taken in the room and the video nobody has time to replay.
- Rewatching hours of video for one answer
- Notes that lost the witness's exact words
- Exhibit numbers written down out of order
- Upload limits far below a video deposition
- No digest until the certified copy
- Follow-up questions based on recollection
✓ A working copy now
The full deposition as searchable text, with timestamps for checking.
- About 8 minutes per deposition
- Chapters by topic
- Exhibits and dates listed
- The witness and counsel named in the summary
- A DOCX to start the digest
- Every passage checkable against the video
Sample
An exchange from the second hour.
Illustrative lines written for this page; no real deposition, case or person is quoted.
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
4-hour depositions: the practical questions.
How long does it take to transcribe a 4-hour deposition?
Close to 8 minutes, since processing runs near 2 minutes per audio hour. Your Library keeps the transcript if you leave the page.
Can this stand in for the certified transcript?
No. It is an AI transcript to work from while preparing, not a certified or official transcript, and not legal advice. The court reporter's certified transcript remains the record for filing and for use at trial.
What does a set of depositions cost?
One deposition uses 240 of the 300 minutes in the $4 pack. Six 4-hour depositions are 1,440 minutes on the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes, and ten are 2,400 minutes on the $32 pack of 6,000 minutes. Credits are bought once and never expire.
The video deposition is 6 GB. What should I do?
The per-file ceiling is 5 GB, so send the audio track or a lower-resolution copy; four hours of audio is a few hundred MB. Without a pack, the upload limit is 5 GB; with one, it is the same, and files up to that start straight away.
The deposition ran over two days. One file or two?
Upload each day as its own file; each comes back with its own timestamps, chapters and brief. A single file can run up to 10 hours, so only a continuous recording past that needs splitting.
Is the recording kept private, and which languages work?
Deposition recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. 99 languages are detected automatically; a deposition taken through an interpreter is detected on its main language, so read the interpreted answers closely. Choose TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON on export.
Related
Other long legal recordings
Four hours of testimony. Readable in about eight minutes.
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