Upload the export or the audio of your project, download the SRT, and bring it into Final Cut Pro with File, Import, Captions. The words arrive on the timeline already timed.
How it works
In Final Cut Pro share the project as audio only (or a small video). Captions are timed against this file, so make it after the edit is locked.
Correct names on the transcript first. Then download .srt.
Choose File, Import, Captions, pick the SRT, and place it relative to the timeline. The cues appear as a captions lane above the video.
Import settings
Captions as a file or in the picture
When you share the project, the Roles tab decides what happens to the captions:
The transcript also makes rough cuts quicker: search it for a phrase and you have the timecode to jump to. Using Premiere or Resolve on another project? See Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.
Sample output
1 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:46,500 fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition 2 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:50,300 that all men are created equal. 3 00:00:50,300 --> 00:00:57,500 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived 4 00:00:57,500 --> 00:01:01,620 and so dedicated, can long endure. 5 00:01:01,620 --> 00:01:07,920 We are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field 6 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:14,240 as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that their nation might live 7 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,800 it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this
Real output, unedited: a public-domain LibriVox reading of the Gettysburg Address (2 min 41 s) transcribed here in October 2026. The repeated word and the missing capitals are what came back; you would fix those on the transcript before downloading.
Before you rely on it
Each cue is a phrase from the transcript with its start and end time. Most run a few seconds. A passage spoken without a pause can come out as one long cue of up to about half a minute, so split those in your editor if your platform wants two short lines at a time.
Cue times are taken from the recording itself, so the file lines up with the video or audio you uploaded. If you trim the start of the video afterwards, shift the cues by the same amount in your editor.
On public test recordings, about 7 words in 100 differed from the reference for clean English read speech, between 4 and 9 in 100 for Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, French and German, and about 21 in 100 for Hindi. Noisy rooms, music and crosstalk do worse. Method and every number: the benchmark.
Open the transcript, correct a misheard name or number on its line, and the SRT and VTT you download carry the correction with the timing unchanged.
You get the subtitle file. Fonts, colours, position and captions drawn into the picture are done in your video editor or player, which reads this file.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per recording. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; larger ones continue on the upload page. 99+ languages, detected automatically.
Pricing
The preview is free. When the full transcript needs a pack, one-time packs are $4 for 500 minutes, $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, which comes to about $0.29 to $0.48 per hour of audio.
| Recording | $4 or $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90-second social cut | $0.02 | $0.01 | $0.01 |
| 12-minute video | $0.10 | $0.07 | $0.06 |
| 50-minute documentary | $0.40 | $0.30 | $0.24 |
Figures are the share of a pack each recording uses. A button opens secure checkout for that pack. Every export format is included; full details on the pricing page.
FAQ
Choose File, Import, Captions, select the SRT file, and set the insertion time relative to the timeline. The captions appear in a captions lane with an SRT role.
SRT import and export arrived in Final Cut Pro 10.4.1. Earlier 10.4 versions support CEA-608 and iTT only.
The SRT was made from a different cut than the timeline, or it was inserted relative to the playhead instead of the timeline. Make the SRT from an export of the locked edit and import it relative to the timeline.
Yes. In the share dialog's Roles tab choose to burn in one caption language. To deliver a switchable track instead, export the captions as a separate SRT file.
After the cut is locked, for captions. Transcribing the raw interview first is useful for finding sound bites, but its timecodes will not match the edited timeline.
Every page in this set uses the same upload box and the same export. All subtitle pages
Free preview. SRT for Final Cut Pro from one upload; packs from $4.