Transcribe documentary rushes while the shoot is still going.
Observational rushes pile up fast: hour-long takes, rolling cameras, days of material nobody has watched yet. Send each take below, up to 5 GB or 10 hours a file, and it comes back as searchable text at about 2 minutes per hour. The first 20 minutes are free; packs start at $6 and never expire.
For the material nobody has watched
Know what is in the rushes before the edit begins.
Big camera files
A long take at a high camera bitrate grows quickly; 5 GB is the ceiling for one file. The box here handles the smaller files, and larger takes continue on the upload page. If a camera original is an MXF or ProRes file above 5 GB, export the audio or a light proxy and send that instead; the words are identical.
Send it from Drive
If the DIT or the producer already syncs the cards to Google Drive, paste the share link for each take. The file is fetched on our side, so nobody uploads the same rushes twice from a hotel connection.
Search the whole shoot
Every take lands in one Library. Search for a word somebody said on day three and you get the take and the timestamp, which is how an observational film finds the moment that the crew only half remembers.
Days of rushes, priced
Thirty hours of rushes is 1,800 minutes, which fits in the $12 pack (2,000 minutes). Sixty hours is 3,600 minutes, which goes on the $24 pack (5,000 minutes). Credits stay on the account between shooting blocks.
Observational material
Rushes as hours of footage, or as text you can read.
✗ Unwatched footage
The camera ran all day and the material is on drives. Until someone watches it, nobody knows what is there.
- Days of takes, nobody with time to watch them
- A great exchange remembered but not located
- Loggers paraphrasing instead of quoting
- Producers asking whether a line was ever caught on camera
- Translation of foreign-language rushes delayed
- Edit structure guessed before the material is known
✓ Readable rushes
Each take is text with a timeline, and the whole shoot is one search box.
- Read a day of rushes in an evening
- Find any spoken line by searching
- Timestamps that point back into the take
- Chapters showing how each long take unfolds
- Named people in the summary and key quotes
- Transcripts ready the night of the shoot
Sample output
A long take, as it reads on paper.
An illustrative sample written for this page, not real footage. The labels show takes; the timestamps count from the start of each file.
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
Rushes and dailies, answered.
How fast does a day of rushes come back?
Each take processes at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so an hour-long take is usually ready in around two minutes once it has arrived. Six hours of takes from one day need roughly twelve minutes of processing in total.
What do a few days of rushes cost?
Count the hours of footage with speech. Eight hours is 480 minutes, inside the $6 pack (500 minutes). Thirty hours goes on the $12 pack (2,000 minutes), and sixty on the $24 pack (5,000 minutes).
Which file sizes are accepted?
Each take can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first. Until your first pack, the upload cap is 2 GB; larger takes start once a pack is on the account. A Drive share link counts as a link and needs no upload.
Do I need to cut long takes into shorter pieces?
No. Keep each take whole and the timestamps will match the file in your bin. Only a single file longer than 10 hours needs to be sent in two pieces.
We are filming abroad. What languages work?
99 languages, each detected automatically, which also helps you spot the takes that need translation.
Which formats come out, and is the footage kept private?
DOCX and TXT for reading and logging, SRT and VTT for subtitled review copies, JSON for importing into your own tools. Unreleased rushes are not shared with anyone: recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
Related pages.
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