Transcribe a long Sony ZV-1 video from the card, or from YouTube once it is live.
An hour-long talking-head video shot on a Sony ZV-1 comes back as text in about 2 minutes, either from the file on the card or from its YouTube link once it is published. The first 20 minutes are free for a first-time visitor, and four weekly hour-long episodes are 240 minutes on the $6 pack of 500 minutes.
Card, file or link
A vlog camera gives you two ways in: the clip on the card or the video already on YouTube.
The clip on the card
Sony compacts usually write video as MP4 files deep in the card, under PRIVATE, then M4ROOT, then CLIP. Copy the clip with a card reader, or with Sony's transfer app if you move files to a phone, and check the export settings there for size and format.
Or paste the YouTube link
If the episode is already public, the upload is already done. Paste the YouTube link and the audio is fetched for you; nothing from the camera has to move, which saves an upload of tens of gigabytes when the episode was shot in 4K. Vimeo links work the same way.
When 4K is too heavy
At around 100 Mbps, an hour of 4K is about 45 GB, nine times what one file may be. A 1080p export, an audio-only MP3 or the YouTube link all carry the same speech and fit easily.
Words you can reuse
Every episode returns with a brief, chapters with timestamps you can paste into the video description, the names and figures you mentioned and the questions the video answers. SRT and VTT captions download from the same run, ready to attach to the upload.
Long vlogs elsewhere
A camera made for talking to the lens produces hours of speech nobody wants to retype.
✗ What usually happens
The episode is shot; the text work is still ahead.
- Auto captions you still fix by hand
- Upload limits below one 4K hour
- Copying clips just to get a transcript
- Chapters written from memory
- Show notes drafted from scratch
- Scrubbing for the line you want to quote
✓ Here
Paste the link or drop the clip.
- YouTube and Vimeo links fetched for you
- About 2 minutes per hour of talk
- Chapters with timestamps for the description
- Captions in SRT and VTT for the posted episode
- A card clip up to 10 hours or 5 GB
- The episode's opening 20 minutes free
Sample
A talking-head episode shot on a compact camera, returned as text.
Composed as an example for this page, it quotes no real channel; timestamps show an hour-long episode.
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
Sony ZV-1 videos: what creators ask first.
How long does a one-hour ZV-1 video take?
About 2 minutes. A file and a YouTube link take about the same time, since the speech is the only thing being read.
What does a year of weekly ZV-1 episodes cost?
Fifty-two hour-long episodes are 3,120 minutes, which fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. A single month of four episodes, 240 minutes, fits the $6 pack of 500. Before any of that, a new visitor gets 20 minutes free.
Do I need to download the video from YouTube first?
No. Paste the public link and the audio is fetched for you. Vimeo, Google Drive share links and podcast feeds work the same way.
The camera stopped partway through a long take. What then?
You have two or more clips. Upload each for a transcript per clip, or join them in an editor and export one audio file for a single document with one clock.
Does it handle vlogs in other languages?
99 languages, picked up automatically. A vlog that moves between English and Tagalog is handled, and a recording that changes language is transcribed on its main one.
What comes back from a ZV-1 video, and is the footage private?
Five files, from TXT and DOCX to SRT, VTT and JSON. Each video is transcribed on our own servers and never used to train a model.
Related
More vlog cameras and YouTube video
Paste the link or drop the ZV-1 clip. Read twenty minutes of the episode free.
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