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Transcribe a Snagit video to text.

Snagit records narrated screen captures as ordinary MP4 files. Drop one here and the narration comes back as text you can paste into the ticket, the wiki page or the email the video was meant to replace.

Free preview and summary Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file 99+ languages TXT · DOCX · SRT · VTT · JSON

The file you have

What a Snagit video capture is.

Format
MP4.
Where it lands
In the Snagit library after you stop recording. Use Share → File (or drag the capture out of the editor) to save a copy where you can find it.
Typical size
Small: a five-minute capture is usually 10–40 MB.

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.

1

Save the capture as a file

In Snagit Editor choose Share → File and save the MP4.

2

Drop the MP4 here

It uploads as it is, usually in a few seconds.

3

Paste the text where it is needed

Copy the transcript or the summary into the ticket or document, or export VTT to caption the video.

Good to know

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

Example. A QA engineer narrates a four-minute bug reproduction in Snagit. The 18 MB MP4 is transcribed in well under a minute and the text, with timestamps, goes into the bug report so the developer can search it instead of watching.

What comes back

More than a wall of text.

The same four things for every Snagit 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 four-minute capture is 4 minutes, so the $4 pack (500 minutes) covers it 125 times over. Every recording gets a free preview and 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.

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

1,901 recordings, 830 audio hours, 64 languages detected. An hour of audio came back in 3.7 minutes for half of the recordings and within 19.7 minutes for nine in ten, measured from the moment the file landed to the finished transcript. Refreshed 2026-10-02; method on how we test.

FAQ

Snagit to text, answered.

How do I transcribe a Snagit recording?

Save the capture as an MP4 with Share → File in Snagit Editor, then drop the MP4 in the box on this page.

Is a short capture worth a pack?

The preview and summary are free, which is often enough for a short capture. A pack only matters when you want the full text and exports; the smallest one covers 500 minutes and does not expire.

What does transcribing Snagit recordings cost?

The preview and the summary are free. A pack opens the full transcript: $4 for 500 minutes, $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 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.

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