Transcribe a long interview shot on a Nikon Zf and quote it without scrubbing the footage.
A 2.5-hour interview filmed on a Nikon Zf is transcribed in about 5 minutes when you upload the clip, the separate recorder's audio or a Google Drive link, at up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. Newcomers get the first 20 minutes free, and the 150 minutes take a small share of the $6 pack of 500 minutes, leaving 350.
Interview day on a full-frame body
The Zf gets picked for how the interview looks. The edit, the article and the archive all depend on what was said.
Which file to send
If a lavalier or shotgun fed a separate recorder, that WAV is usually the cleanest copy of the conversation and the smallest one to upload. If the sound went into the camera, the Zf clip carries it, usually as a MOV or MP4 depending on your movie settings; either works.
The size arithmetic
A 16-bit, 48 kHz stereo WAV runs about 691 MB an hour, so 2.5 hours is close to 1.73 GB and fits even before a first pack. The camera clip of the same interview is many times larger and usually passes 5 GB, so send the recorder file or an audio export instead.
Two cameras, one conversation
On a two-camera interview, transcribe just one angle; both carry the same speech. Pick the one with the better microphone, and the chapters and timestamps line up with the take you edit from because they share the same clock.
What comes back for the edit
A brief with thesis and takeaways, chapters with timestamps, the names, numbers and dates said, and the questions the interview answers. Guest and host are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, so selects can be pulled from the text before you open the timeline.
Interview transcripts elsewhere
A long interview is where the edit stalls, waiting for someone to type out two and a half hours.
✗ The slow version
The footage is ready, the words are not.
- A typist booked for days
- Upload forms that stop at short files
- Camera files far too big to send
- Paper selects made while rewatching
- Quotes checked by scrubbing
- The archive kept as video only
✓ The quick version
Send the sound, read the conversation.
- A single file up to 10 hours or 5 GB
- About 5 minutes for 2.5 hours
- Recorder WAVs and camera clips both fine
- Chapters timed to the take
- Key quotes with guest and host named
- 20 minutes free to check the result
Sample
A long sit-down interview, as it reads when it comes back.
Written for this page as illustration, quoting no real interview; the timestamps cover a 2.5-hour conversation.
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
- AI chat over the whole 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
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Nikon Zf interviews, answered.
How long does a 2.5-hour Zf interview take?
About 5 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. The proof page shows a 9.31-hour recording completed in 1,033 seconds.
What does a documentary's worth of interviews cost?
Twelve 2.5-hour interviews total 1,800 minutes and fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. A bigger project of thirty such interviews, 4,500 minutes, fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes with 500 left.
Camera file or recorder file: which is better?
The recorder file, when there is one. It is smaller, usually cleaner, and the transcript only needs the speech. Use the camera clip when it is the only copy with the guest's microphone on it.
What if the interview is longer than 10 hours?
Split it at a break into two files. Each file up to 10 hours or 5 GB is handled in one pass with its own timestamps.
Will it cope with accents or a second language?
99 languages are detected automatically. A guest who moves between two languages is transcribed on the recording's main language, and English terms inside other speech are handled.
Who can hear the interview, and what can I download?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. Exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Nothing connects to the camera; you upload the file yourself.
Related
Interview cameras and long conversations
Read the interview before you cut it. The first 20 minutes are free.
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