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Ability to export comments

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Neil Goldberg

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

October 3, 2019

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

Andrew Mason

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Haoqi Zhang

To add: these comments also don't copy and paste from a composition to another (e.g., in another project) --- so it makes it actually kinda impossible to truly move a composition from one project to another once it has been annotated.

Haoqi Zhang

Agreed! I am taking notes as I am transcribing interviews and not being able to export those notes is a big roadblock to my analysis work.

Cathy Booth

Yes, watch Mike Russell’s video on creating show notes using the ability to export (optionally timestamped) notes from Sonic https://youtu.be/00ubRMo2fpE

Josh Gonsalves

Cathy Booth: This is a perfect example!

Molly Schulson

yes - I left dozens of comments to a transcription and due to a glitch, they were all removed. It took several hours for Descript to figure out the problem and return comments to session. I could not work as a result. If I was able to export comments right away, I wouldnt have lost time. Thanks for your consideration!

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