Transcribe the class recordings for your Skillshare class raw footage to lesson plan, project guide and captions.
Four hours of raw footage a teacher recorded for a Skillshare class become text in about 8 minutes once uploaded, and the first 20 minutes are free. That footage uses 240 of the 500 minutes in the $6 pack, and WhipScribe has no connection to Skillshare: it works on the recordings on your own drive.
Before the edit, and after it
A 75-minute class often starts as four hours of footage. Text makes that footage easy to cut.
Use your own recordings
This is for the footage you recorded for your class: camera files, often MP4 or MOV, and screen recordings from your capture tool. Upload them from your drive; nothing is taken from the Skillshare site.
Edit from the transcript
Transcribe the raw takes to find your best explanation of each step, then cut. Chapters with timestamps show where each topic starts. After the edit, transcribe the finished lessons again if you want captions that line up. One file can be 10 hours or 5 GB; before a pack, uploads stop at 2 GB.
A class, or a year of them
Four hours of raw footage for one class is 240 minutes on the $6 pack of 500. Releasing a class every month with 3 hours of footage each is 2,160 minutes over a year, past the $12 pack, so it sits on the $24 pack of 5,000.
What you write from it
Every recording returns with a brief of the thesis and takeaways, chapters, and the names, numbers and dates you mentioned. Turn it into the class description, the project guide and lesson titles, and use the chat to list the questions a lesson answers.
Editing from video alone
Finding your best take in four hours of footage means watching four hours of footage.
✗ Footage only
Every decision made by scrubbing.
- Rewatching takes to find the clear one
- Lesson titles invented after the edit
- A project guide written from memory
- Captions typed for each lesson
- Screen-recording sessions with no notes
- Footage split to fit a tool's size cap
✓ Footage with a transcript
Text you can read, search and cut from.
- About 8 minutes for 4 hours of footage
- Chapters at every topic change
- Your best explanation found by search
- Ready-made SRT and VTT captions after the edit
- DOCX for the project guide
- One class on the $6 pack
Sample
Raw class footage, as the transcript reads.
An illustrative sample written for this page, not a real class. Timestamps sit inside 4 hours of raw footage.
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
Skillshare class recordings: questions teachers ask.
How long will four hours of footage take?
About 8 minutes, since processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. A finished 75-minute class takes about 2 and a half minutes.
What does a class, or a year of classes, cost?
The opening 20 minutes of a first upload are free. One class with 4 hours of raw footage is 240 minutes on the $6 pack of 500 minutes; a class a month with 3 hours of footage each, 2,160 minutes a year, fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, so they carry from class to class.
Can I transcribe another teacher's class?
No. Upload only footage you recorded yourself, or have the rights to; this page is for teachers working on their own classes.
My footage has background music. Is that transcribed?
No. Music and sound effects are not transcribed, only your speech. Recording voice-over without music makes the transcript cleaner.
Will captions line up after I edit?
Captions follow the timestamps of the file you upload, so transcribe each finished lesson for captions, and use the raw-footage transcript only for editing.
Which exports come back, and is the footage private?
Footage transcripts export as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Footage is transcribed on our own servers and is never used to train a model, and you can delete a file and its transcript whenever you choose.
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