Transcribe a long Canon EOS R recording and find the quote before the edit.
The Canon EOS R records MP4 video to its SD card, inside the DCIM folder, and a long interview often arrives as several clips; upload the clips, or better, the audio from the separate recorder if you ran one. A two-hour interview takes about 4 minutes, the first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the other 100.
From the camera to the paper edit
A sit-down interview becomes searchable text, with the timestamp of every answer.
Camera clips or recorder audio
Take the MP4 clips from the card's DCIM folder. If the interview was also recorded on a separate audio recorder, upload that WAV instead: it is usually the cleaner sound, a fraction of the size, and one continuous file where the camera may have started several.
Several clips, one interview
A camera may begin a new file partway through a long take; check your manual for when. Each clip can go in as its own transcript, or join them in your editor and export the audio as one file up to 10 hours, which keeps one clock for the whole conversation.
If the files are MXF
Footage from a cinema camera or an external recorder may come as MXF. Export it to MP4, or save just the audio as WAV or MP3, before uploading. The words come out the same; the file is just easier to move.
Built for the paper edit
The interview comes back with a brief of the main points, chapters with timestamps, key quotes, and the names, numbers and dates the subject mentioned. Interviewer and subject are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, so you can pull selects without re-watching the take.
Why long interviews are slow to log
Hours of answers, several files and an edit that cannot start until someone logs them.
✗ Logging by hand
Without a transcript, someone watches the whole interview and types notes with timecodes before a cut can begin.
- Watching two hours to find three quotes
- Timecodes noted by hand and off by seconds
- Clips that split an answer in half
- Large camera files that will not upload
- Per-minute services with a week's turnaround
- A monthly plan for one documentary
✓ Logged in minutes
Upload the clips or the recorder's audio, and every answer comes back with a timestamp you can drop into the edit.
- Two hours logged in about 4 minutes
- The recorder's WAV instead of camera video
- Clips or one joined file, your choice
- 500 minutes for $6, no plan to cancel
- Every answer findable by timestamp
- DOCX for the producer, SRT for subtitles
Sample
A long documentary interview, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page; it does not quote a real interview. Timestamps start at the first frame of the clip or the first second of the audio.
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
Canon EOS R interviews, the common questions.
How long does a long interview take?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio, so two hours of interview is ready in about 4 minutes. A whole day of interviews recorded as one ten-hour file would take around 20.
What does a documentary's worth of interviews cost?
A two-hour interview is 120 minutes; with the first 20 free for a first-time visitor, a $6 pack of 500 covers the rest. Twenty interviews of 90 minutes each come to 1,800 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000.
How large can a clip be?
Up to 2 GB before the first pack, and up to 5 GB or 10 hours once a pack is on the account. A WAV from a separate recorder is much smaller than the camera's video of the same interview.
Does a long interview need splitting?
No, unless it is longer than 10 hours. If the camera already split it into clips, upload them one by one or join the audio into one file.
Which languages work?
99 languages, recognised automatically. An interview that drifts between two languages is transcribed on its main one, and English with Tagalog in the same recording is handled.
What do I download, and what happens to the footage?
One run gives you TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete the interview and its transcript at any point.
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