Transcript and Captions

The Transcript panel turns transcribed speech into an editing surface: deleting words cuts their time range from the selected track. Captions use an active caption track to display and export timed text.

Edit with the Transcript

1. Open Transcript in the media panel. If it is hidden, use Workspace → Transcript.
2. Choose Paragraph view for continuous reading or Clip view for one block per Timeline cut.
3. Select unwanted words and press Backspace or Delete. ChatCut splits at the word boundaries, removes that range, and closes the gap on the edited track.
4. Click a word to move the Viewer and Timeline to its start.
5. Use the selection menu for Delete selection, Edit text, or Change speaker.

Clip view also lets you drag a paragraph to reorder its corresponding clip. Gap controls can close empty space. The Pauses control applies one pause length across the selected transcript track; it can restore existing source pause time but cannot invent silence not present in the recording.

Choose a track and manage speakers

When several transcript-capable tracks exist, use the V1/V2 or A1/A2 selector to choose the source. If no caption source is set—or the saved source track no longer exists—ChatCut falls back to the first track containing a video or audio item. Video tracks are checked before audio tracks. Select the intended track explicitly when several speech tracks are present.

Double-click a speaker label to rename it, or open its menu to reassign selected words or merge a speaker.

Turn on and export captions

Use the split Captions control in the playback controls:

1. Select the left side to show or hide captions.
2. Select the chevron to open the Caption style menu.
3. Choose a built-in style such as Plain, Netflix, or TikTok Pop.
4. After adjusting the current caption look, use Save current style… to name it. Reusable styles appear under Saved styles, where they can be applied, renamed, or deleted.

Caption availability follows the active source and transcription state. To export timed text, open Export → Subtitles and choose SubRip (.srt) or plain text (.txt); export stays unavailable until the active caption track finishes transcribing.

Edit caption text in the Inspector

The Transcript edits the underlying speech and Timeline. The caption content editor changes the words and breaks shown as captions without cutting the source clip.

1. Turn captions on, then click a visible caption in the Viewer. The caption item becomes selected and its controls open.
2. Select Batch Edit in the floating caption toolbar to open the caption content editor in the Inspector.
3. Edit the text directly inside a numbered caption card. Press Enter at a valid word boundary to split a caption; deleting a card hides that caption cue instead of deleting the source media.
4. Use Search captions to filter the cards. Use Find and replace, enter Find and Replace with, then select Replace all to change every match on the current caption program.

The toolbar above the cards also contains:

• Segmentation: change how words are grouped into caption cards and lines.
• Punctuation: control whether and how punctuation is displayed.
• Capitalization: apply capitalization rules when the current language supports them.

Wait for an in-progress segmentation or transcription refresh to finish before making another structural caption change.

Style one caption or the whole track

Click a caption in the Viewer to open its floating controls and Inspector. Use Apply to all when a style change should affect the full caption track; turn it off to create an override for the selected caption page. Available caption controls include font and size, alignment, normal text color, highlighted text or highlight background, normal background, stroke, shadow, line layout, pacing, and Safe position placement.

To style individual words, select text inside the active caption and use the inline toolbar for bold, italic, underline, color, or clearing the local formatting. A saved caption style stores the overall current look for reuse; it does not copy the caption text.

Translate captions

1. Turn captions on and open the right side of the split Captions control.
2. Select Translate captions, then choose the target language. The same command is also available from a track header’s Captions menu when that control is visible.
3. Wait for translation to finish. The result appears as a Translation (language) caption source that you can show, style, and export separately from the original-language captions.

Translation needs an existing caption program. If the command is unavailable, first choose the correct source track and wait for its transcription to finish.

See Export Video, Audio, and Subtitles and Selection Mode.