Transcribe a long AVI file digitised from the tape.
A long AVI transcribes as one file once it is under 5 GB: a 3-hour camcorder recording comes back in about 6 minutes, and only the speech counts toward minutes. DV-format AVI runs near 13 GB an hour, so for a long one you upload the audio track instead, and the first 20 minutes are free either way.
Tapes, captures and early PC video
The tape you finally digitised, turned into text you can quote.
Two kinds of AVI
An AVI captured from a MiniDV or Digital8 camcorder holds DV video at about 25 Mbps, close to 13 GB per hour. An AVI saved by older PC software with a compressed codec is far smaller, often well under a gigabyte per hour. Check the size before you plan anything.
Send the audio when it is huge
A DV AVI passes the 5 GB line after about 23 minutes of footage. For a tape of an hour or more, export the audio as MP3 in VLC, Audacity or any video editor; three hours of speech then fits in a couple of hundred megabytes.
If the AVI itself is refused
A compressed AVI under 5 GB can go up as it is. If the upload refuses the file, convert it to MP3 first, which keeps every minute of speech and drops the picture. Files above 2 GB start once a pack is on the account; big copies go best through the upload page.
A family or event archive, searchable
A three-hour tape of a reunion, a ceremony or a seminar comes back with chapters, timestamps, the names and dates people mentioned, and a summary that names the speakers.
Before / after
Camcorder AVI files are too big for most transcription boxes.
✗ Thirteen gigabytes an hour
Long AVI captures hit size limits at once, long before length matters.
- A 40 GB tape capture refused at the door
- Upload limits in the hundreds of megabytes
- A full re-encode that runs for hours
- Video pixels billed when only speech matters
- One tape cut into a dozen uploads
- No timeline to find a single toast or answer
✓ The speech, at a sensible size
Take the audio off the AVI and send one small file per tape.
- Each tape's audio as one file, up to 10 hours
- Three hours of audio in about 6 minutes
- A small MP3 instead of a 40 GB capture
- Named speakers in brief, quotes and chapters
- Three hours uses 180 of the $6 pack's 500 minutes
- Timestamps that match the original tape
Sample
A digitised camcorder tape, in text.
This sample is illustrative and was written for the page; it does not come from a real AVI or tape. The times count from the start of the capture.
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 $6 (500 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
$6/500 min
8 hours of audio — $0.72 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 500 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$12/2,000 min
33 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 2,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Long AVI questions.
How long does a 3-hour AVI take?
About 6 minutes of processing, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. Sending the extracted audio rather than a DV capture also makes the upload a matter of minutes instead of hours.
What will three hours of AVI cost?
The audio length sets the price, so three hours is 180 minutes and fits in the $6 pack (500 minutes). A ten-hour set of tapes, if sent as one audio file, is 600 minutes on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
My AVI is 30 GB. Can it go up?
Not as video, because one file stops at 5 GB. Export the audio to MP3, which brings even several hours under a few hundred megabytes. If the tape ran past 10 hours, split the audio into two files.
Do I have to convert the AVI?
Only when it is too big or refused. If the upload refuses the file, convert it to MP3 first; a compressed AVI under 5 GB is worth trying as it is.
Can the tape be in another language?
Yes. 99 languages are recognised automatically, so a family recording in Spanish, Hebrew or Afrikaans needs no setting.
What comes back, and what happens to the footage?
A transcript, brief and chapters, exported as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. The audio is transcribed on our own servers and never used for training.
Related
Big video and old formats.
The whole tape, as text. Send the audio, read the first 20 minutes free.
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