Transcribe long videos exported from OpenShot lectures, sermons and recorded talks.
Export the finished OpenShot project, usually as an MP4, and upload it here; a 2.5-hour lecture is transcribed in about 5 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free on a first visit, and the lecture uses 150 minutes of the $6 pack of 500, with 350 left.
A free editor, a paid-for result
OpenShot trims the lecture. WhipScribe gives you the words, the chapters and the questions it answered.
Export a single file
Use the export option, choose a common profile such as MP4 with H.264, and export the full timeline. Profile names change between releases, so if you do not see MP4, pick the closest web or YouTube preset. Advanced options may let you lower the resolution or bitrate before you export.
Keep it under the lines
At 2.5 Mbps, a 720p export is about 1.1 GB an hour, so a 2.5-hour lecture is near 2.8 GB, over the 2 GB allowed before a first pack. Halve the bitrate, or export a 128 kbps audio track of about 144 MB that fits the 500 MB box here. Video files up to 5 GB go through the upload page.
A semester in one pack
Thirteen 2.5-hour lectures add up to 1,950 minutes. The $12 pack of 2,000 covers the term with 50 minutes to spare; a second course of the same length moves you to the $24 pack of 5,000.
Study material that comes back
Each lecture returns a brief with the thesis and takeaways, chapters with timestamps, the terms, figures and dates spoken, and the questions the class covered. The chat answers questions over the whole transcript, and SRT or VTT can go back onto the video as captions.
The edit is done, the notes are not
A clean two-and-a-half-hour video, and students still ask what was said in week three.
✗ A lecture as video only
Two and a half hours, searchable by nobody.
- Exports bigger than upload limits
- Notes depend on who attended
- Key definitions found by rewatching
- Captions typed by hand
- No outline for revision
- Questions from class forgotten
✓ A lecture with a transcript
Exported once, readable the same hour.
- About 5 minutes per lecture
- An audio export of about 144 MB
- Chapters for each topic
- Terms and figures listed
- SRT captions for the video
- $12 for a 13-lecture term
Sample
A long recorded lecture edited in OpenShot.
Illustrative only: written for this page, with timestamps from a 2.5-hour lecture.
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
OpenShot exports, the common questions.
How long does a 2.5-hour OpenShot export take?
About 5 minutes after the upload finishes, at around 2 minutes per hour of audio. The upload is usually the slower part with a large video file.
Which export format should I pick?
An MP4 is the safe default. If your OpenShot version lets you export audio only, that file is far smaller and transcribes exactly the same, since only the speech is used.
How much is a full term of lectures?
The first 20 minutes are free on a first visit; a longer lecture is previewed until a pack transcribes the rest from where the preview stopped. Thirteen 2.5-hour lectures are 1,950 minutes, inside the $12 pack of 2,000. Packs are one-time payments.
Does WhipScribe plug into OpenShot?
No. There is no plugin or integration. Export the video from OpenShot and upload it here, or paste the link if you posted the lecture to YouTube or Vimeo.
What are the size and length limits?
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. Before the first pack, files up to 2 GB; a larger one starts once a pack is on the account. A recording over 10 hours goes up as two files.
What happens to the recording?
We transcribe on our own servers, and your recording is never used to train anything. Exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, and 99 languages are detected automatically.
Related
Lectures, classes and other free editors
Export the lecture and drop it here. About five minutes for two and a half hours.
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