Video Transcription for Editing: Timestamps and SRT Subtitles in Minutes

Finding one phrase in an hour of raw footage is the most tedious part of editing. A transcript with timestamps turns the video into searchable text, and the .srt file takes care of subtitles right away.

What an editor gets

  • A transcript with timestamps — open the .txt, search for a word and see at once which minute it was said.
  • A ready .srt file — subtitles with time coding that you only need to import into your project.
  • An AI summary — a short digest that helps you grasp what the material is about without watching all of it.

How to make subtitles from a video

  1. Open the Fish bot in Telegram.
  2. Send a video file, a YouTube or Instagram Reels link, or a file or folder from Google Drive.
  3. Pick up the .txt transcript and the .srt subtitles.
  4. Import the .srt into Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or CapCut, or upload it in YouTube Studio under “Subtitles”.

For screenwriters and story editors

Transcripts of interviews and sync soundbites are the base of a “paper edit”: first you build the story out of quotes in the text, then you use the timestamps to find those pieces in the footage. A whole folder from Google Drive can be sent at once, without uploading every file separately.

How long it takes

Processing runs on average about 10 times faster than the length of the file: an hour-long interview is transcribed in roughly 6 minutes.

Try it on your own file — 15 free minutes every month, no sign-up and no card required.

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