Clipchamp · audio only (M4A) or MP4

Transcribe a Clipchamp video to text.

WhipScribe transcribes a Clipchamp video exported as audio only (M4A) or MP4. Packs: $4 for 300 minutes, $18 for 3,000, $32 for 6,000; Workspace $19 a month. Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. Measured turnaround: about 2 minutes per audio hour. 99 languages. Checked 2 Nov 2026.

Free preview of the opening minutes Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file 99+ languages TXT · DOCX · SRT · VTT · JSON

The file you have

What Clipchamp gives you, and what to export.

Export for transcription: Export → Audio only. Clipchamp saves it as an .m4a, even where the option is labelled MP3. Any video resolution works too.
Where it lands: Your browser's or Windows' Downloads folder, unless you choose another location.
Share links: A Clipchamp share or OneDrive page is a viewing page, not a media file. Upload the exported file instead.
Typical size: An hour of M4A is about 60 MB; a 1080p MP4 of the same hour can be 1 GB or more.

There is no link to paste for this one. Get the file onto your phone or computer first, then upload it in the box above.

How it works

Three steps, the first one is the only one that takes any thought.

Export audio only

Click Export and choose Audio only (or the lowest video resolution).

Drop the M4A here

It uploads as it is; no conversion to MP3 is needed.

Use the captions

Export SRT or VTT and upload it next to the video on YouTube, LinkedIn or your course platform.

Good to know

What trips people up, and what to do about it.

The audio-only export is M4A, not MP3. That is fine here; M4A uploads as it is.
Clipchamp has its own autocaptions and can download them as SRT. Bringing the audio here is useful for a summary, a DOCX, or recordings in a language you want detected automatically.
Export after the final cut so caption timings match the published video.
Music under the voice is transcribed around; for the cleanest text, export with the background music track muted.

Example. A 15-minute product walkthrough made in Clipchamp is exported audio-only as a 14 MB M4A. The transcript is back in under a minute and the summary becomes the help-centre article under the video.

What comes back

More than a wall of text.

The same four things for every Clipchamp recording, whatever its length.

A transcript with timestamps

Every line carries its time. Click a line to hear that second again, or search a name or phrase and jump to each place it was said.

A summary, chapters and key quotes

A brief with the takeaways, chapters with their start times, and the quotes worth keeping. Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.

Questions answered from the recording

Ask where a topic came up or what was decided, and get the answer with the time it was said, instead of scrolling the whole text.

Every export

TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT, JSON from the same transcript: a document to edit, caption files for video, plain text to paste, structured data for your own tools.

Pricing

Free preview. Packs from $4, and the minutes never expire.

A 15-minute product walkthrough is 15 minutes, so the $4 pack (300 minutes) covers it 20 times over. Every recording gets a free preview, and in 31 countries, or for recordings of an hour or more in most others, a summary you can read before paying; a pack opens the full transcript and every export. Packs are one-time purchases with no subscription and no seat fee.

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Pick a pack to open secure checkout. Workspace is $19 a month for unlimited transcription (300-hour fair-use mark). Full pricing

What we measured, last 30 days

3,332 recordings, 2,490 audio hours, 65 languages detected. An hour of audio came back in 3.1 minutes for half of the recordings and within 17.5 minutes for nine in ten, measured from the moment the file landed to the finished transcript. Refreshed 2026-10-28; method on how we test.

FAQ

Clipchamp to text, answered.

Can I paste a Clipchamp share link?

No. A share page is a web page, not the media file. Export the video or audio from Clipchamp and upload the file.

Why did my audio export come out as .m4a?

That is how Clipchamp saves audio-only exports. M4A uploads here directly.

Can I get SRT captions for a Clipchamp video?

Yes. Upload the export, then download SRT or VTT from the finished transcript and add it where you publish the video.

What does transcribing Clipchamp recordings cost?

The preview is free, and so is the summary in 31 countries or for recordings of an hour or more. A pack opens the full transcript: $4 for 300 minutes, $18 for 3,000 minutes, $32 for 6,000 minutes. Packs are one-time, credits never expire, and Workspace is $19 a month if you transcribe every week.

How long can the recording be?

One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; a larger file continues on the main upload page, which uploads it in parts. Most recordings come back in about two minutes per hour of audio.

Is the recording kept private?

Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete a recording and its transcript at any time.