How to get the transcript and subtitle files for your clips
Ask Vizard Agent where your transcripts are. It transcribes every clip in the project, produces a readable document and a subtitle file for each, punctuates the readable version properly, and will stitch them into one clean manuscript if you want the words as prose rather than as captions.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
You can be very casual about this one. A half-sentence works, because there is no creative decision hiding inside it: Vizard Agent knows which files it delivered and what transcribing them means. Say whether you want captions, a readable draft or both, and whether the clips belong together as chapters.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It works from the files already in the project and keeps captions and prose apart. Captions follow speech and prose follows sentences, and both come out of the same word timings, so they stay in step. Here, a simple question about transcripts ended as a seven-chapter manuscript. In the session behind this article it:
- Checked the project files and history, the transcription tool's options and the length of the delivered videos.
- Transcribed the delivered cut and the newly uploaded clips, then built a readable document and a subtitle file for every clip.
- Polished the punctuation in the readable versions, scanned the chapters for leftover speech artefacts and cleaned them into a reading draft.
- Tracked down why some doubled words survived the first cleanup, fixed the rule rather than the symptom, and re-ran the check.
- Assembled all seven pieces into one working manuscript and read a full chapter back to confirm nothing was mangled.
- Checked the chapter lengths were intact after cleaning, since cleaning prose can quietly delete a paragraph, then uploaded the finished files.
When does this not work well?
Transcription is only as good as the audio underneath it, and a readable draft also needs speech structured enough to become sentences. Heavy background noise, people talking over each other, specialist terminology and very heavy accents all need a human pass. For legal or medical use, ask for verbatim and check it yourself.
Common questions
Can I get an SRT? Yes. Vizard Agent produces standard subtitle files you can load anywhere.
Is the readable version verbatim? No, by default. Say "keep every word" and Vizard Agent leaves the stumbles in.
Does cleaning ever cut too much? It can, which is why Vizard Agent checks the chapter lengths afterwards.