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Ability to export comments

Neil Goldberg

When exporting transcripts to MS Word, it would be very helpful to be able to export comments. Thanks!

October 3, 2019

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David Rosen

Since the Comments already provide a timestamp, this is REALLY valuable when creating, editing and posting Show Notes. EIther Markers or some sort of written notes that stems from a podcast/ videocast points the listener/viewer to specific sections of a recording with teh timestamp on it. am I missing something or is there another way to do this?

Laura

Yes, please add a feature to export comments. We're using Descript to annotate audio in a language that Descript doesn't support. Being able to export these comments/notes would be extremely helpful. The view that allows you to see all of the comments on the sidebar is great, but being able to export that view would be even better.

Bradford Rogers

While under review, please consider implementing export of comments to Pro Tools/Audition/Reaper/Logic markers/regions! (Mentioned in separate threads, but perhaps could/should be considered at the same time, or requests merged?)

Markers in Descript are good for navigation and for turning into section headers in show notes/.docx/etc....but don't work well as DAW markers.

Pall Jonsson

I am doing a reaserch paper with loads of interview and have done 6 transcripts with loads of comments, and desperatly need the comments to be exported into word to be part of the paper. Is this not possible. ?

Eli Crow

You can do the following to get a timestamped list of comments (not quite a workaround, but useful enough to paste into the exported word document):

Open the "comments sidebar" on the right.
Select the text of all comments using your cursor and copy with (cmd+c or ctrl+c).
Paste (cmd+v or ctrl+v) into a text editor capable of rich text, such as Microsoft Word or Apple Notes. Without rich text support, the timestamps will not be pasted.
Use a combination of search and replace and manual formatting into the desired format. (If you're code savvy, you might copy from your rich text editor into Visual Studio Code or similar and use regex to make formatting easier)

Deborah

I need this please, just as a separate simple txt file is fine.

lucy v

Yes please. Would like a Word export with comments sections too please.

Charlie Harding

Could really use this feature as my team does a lot of markup in transcripts for our engineer to clean up in a bigger Pro Tools session. Would help immensely.

Josh Gonsalves

Is there an update on this? It's been under review since October 2020... This is a HIGHLY needed feature for podcasters to create show notes.

Cathy Booth posted the perfect example of how this should work in this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/00ubRMo2fpE

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