For documentary filmmakers

Transcription for documentary interviews and archival footage

Long interviews, sensitive subjects, and footage that often can't leave an edit bay — documentary work has different transcription needs than a quick social clip.

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What documentary editing actually needs

Hours of raw interview footage to sift through, subjects who sometimes require confidentiality, and often more than one spoken language in the same project.

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Long-form transcripts for logging

Generate a full, searchable transcript of hours of interview footage to speed up the selects/logging process.

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Confidential subject matter

Fully local processing — no interview footage is ever uploaded, which matters for protected sources or sensitive stories.

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Multilingual interviews

Transcribe subjects speaking different languages within the same project, translating to English where needed for the edit.

From rough transcript to final captions

The same CaptionLab pass that helps you log and find selects during the edit also produces the final, timed SRT captions for delivery — no separate captioning pass needed once picture is locked.

Frequently asked questions

Can it transcribe hours of raw interview footage at once?
Yes — select a full sequence or a long clip and CaptionLab processes it in one pass, respecting any gaps or cuts already in your timeline.
Does it handle multiple interview subjects in one file?
It transcribes everything said, but doesn't currently label who's speaking (no speaker diarization) — useful for content, less so for automatically separating speakers.
Is this suitable for protecting confidential sources?
Transcription happens entirely on your own machine with no upload step, which removes one common risk — but overall source protection depends on your full security practices, not just this tool.

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