Upload German footage or paste a link and take away SRT and VTT files with timings drawn from every word. German audio yields German cue text; for plain text rather than a caption track, the transcript page is the one. No charge on the first recording up to 3 hours; 1,000 minutes are $8 thereafter.
How it runs
Three steps, none of which involve counting frames.
Video files, audio files or a link. Larger masters continue on the upload page, which accepts up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file.
Timings sit on individual words, so jumping to a moment takes a click. Company names, Fachbegriffe and place names such as Görlitz are worth correcting before export.
SRT for Premiere Pro, Resolve and platform uploads; VTT for browser players. TXT, DOCX, JSON and MD come from the same run at no extra charge.
Captioning German
German builds nouns by welding them together, and a single Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung or Lebensmittelunverträglichkeit can eat most of a caption line on its own. Broadcast practice in German-speaking markets tends to hold lines near thirty-seven characters, which one compound can exceed by itself. Such a word cannot be hyphenated mid-cue without misleading the reader, so the line breaks around it instead.
Word order is the second constraint. German pushes the finite verb to the end of a subordinate clause, and separable prefixes travel to the end of a main clause. Split at the wrong point and the first cue shows a subject and object with no action, the meaning arriving a cue later. Break at a clause boundary so each cue at least completes a thought.
Nothing in the downloaded SRT or VTT announces who is talking; both formats carry cue text and timecodes. The on-screen transcript shows the separation between voices, and the JSON export holds it in machine-readable form.
Sidecar files and burned-in text
The same file works for platforms and editors alike.
Attach the SRT as the German track in Studio. It replaces the automatic captions, and the text is indexed for search.
LinkedIn video plays silently by default, so burned-in text pays off. Pull the SRT into your editor and lay the text over the picture.
Import the SRT onto a caption track and the cues land at the right timecode, ready to restyle for your Resolve project.
VTT loads through an HTML5 track element and is widely accepted by learning platforms. Generate it from the link if the video is already published.
Pricing
Packs from $4 and readable in full at any length, with the caption exports included. After that: $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes, bought once, with credits that do not expire.
| German recording | $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15-minute product film | $0.12 | $0.09 | $0.07 |
| 60-minute Vortrag | $0.48 | $0.36 | $0.29 |
| 3-hour Webinar | $1.44 | $1.08 | $0.86 |
Each cell is the fraction of one pack the recording uses. All export formats included. Full detail on the pricing page.
FAQ
In German. Cue text is produced in the language that was spoken, so a German recording gives German captions, and no conversion into another language happens.
They usually cannot be split without confusing the reader, so the surrounding line breaks move instead and the compound stays whole on its own line.
At a clause boundary. Breaking mid-clause leaves the reader holding a subject and object while the verb arrives in the next cue.
Yes, the ß is written where it was transcribed. Swiss German usage, which spells such words with ss, is written the way it is spoken.
No. Speaker separation appears in the transcript on screen only. SRT and VTT contain cue text and timings, and JSON is the export that carries the structure.
They survive if the file stays in UTF-8. A tool that rewrites the file as ASCII will substitute ae, oe and ue or produce broken characters, so keep the encoding intact.
No signup for the preview. A first recording of up to 3 hours is free of charge.