Plain text export
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Rich Cassone
One big use-case for these transcripts is using the text in YouTube (or vimeo) descriptions. Re-editing the RTF or DOCX is a pain. Any chance that you could include a plain .txt export that strips formatting (yet maintains a double \lf at the paragraph breaks?
Kevin from Descript
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Hello all! .txt export is available in the transcript export menu settings. Hope this helps!
Kevin from Descript
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Hello all! .txt export is available in the transcript export menu settings. Hope this helps!
Reese
Kevin from Descript: Hooray! Thank you so much! I'm so glad for this.
Andrew Mason
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There are some problems with the text export today.
Characters like " and & end up showing up as code.
Thinking about this again but not just for text.
I'd like to have a way to generate a blog or substack or article from a video.
For example, I'd like to export the text and be able to pin video clips for each paragraph. Every pinned video clip would take a screenshot of the video frame selected and then wrap the text around it when it is exported.
If the plain text export could include an image drop as well, this would allow somebody to generate the text and images necessary for a nice post on any web site. The images would be in order and tags noted in the text export would allow the producer to take everything together and format it for the various platforms (mobile/web/app/etc.)
Cameron Suorsa
Andrew Mason perhaps there could also be an option to just "Copy" it to clipboard... because I often find myself needing to just copy and paste it onto my website and it is an extra step to have to open the document and then copy it!
James Dennewitz
I want to export transcription for use in a blog and on You Tube.
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Francesco Mosconi
Also, make it possible to bulk export to text (all compositions) like for video)
Andrew Mason
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Andrew Mason: Hope it's not too late. I am thinking this would be great, but for me, it would be nice to be able to select text and hit copy (ctrl+c or cmd+c) and have the text plus the timing marker and speaker and the link back to the project all copied to the clipboard.
That way I can paste and send somebody directly back to that position or edit out what I don't need, but at least one copy operation would get me all the info I need to get myself back to the quote or to share the quote text from the transcript in another document.
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There are some folks asking for a copy of the comments along with the text and I think that's probably a good idea as well. If it's all on the clipboard, it can easily be transferred inside Describe or placed into another app (google docs, word, text editors, etc.)
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Probably same idea for taking a capture to clipboard of the video frame if it is selected instead of text with ctrl+C or else a cmd+k command for getting snapshots. Would be great if there were some cmd+k commands in the drive view to allow multiple or batch exports of selected files or entire folders as well.