Get a transcript
Ask Ape to transcribe a clip, or to line up a script you already have with the audio. The transcript belongs to the project and to the footage it came from. If there's none yet, the Transcript tool says "This project has no transcript yet. Transcribe or align a source, then correct it here."
Open the Transcript tool
Choose the Transcript tool (Y) on the Stage's rail, or Edit, Transcript. A strip opens above the Timeline's lanes, on the same time ruler, with each word as a chip at the moment it was said. The tool's options are in the Inspector.
The transcript's source has to be on the Timeline for its words to have a place in time. If it isn't, the strip says so: put the source on a layer, or link captions to it.
Retime words
Drag a word to move it, or drag one of its edges to change when it starts or ends. With Follow on, the playhead follows the edge you're dragging, so the Viewer shows that exact frame and the caption on it.
Fix words
- Double-click a word to fix its spelling, such as a misheard name. Or select it and type in Selected word in the tool's options; Enter applies the change.
- Right-click a word for Split here, which makes two words at the point you pressed, Merge with the next word, and Delete word.
Speakers
Select a word and choose its Speaker in the tool's options. New speaker names someone the transcript doesn't have yet and gives the word to them.
Untimed words
Words the model couldn't place in time wait in the Untimed tray, with a count beside it, until they're given a time.
Captions that follow
Press Create linked captions in the Transcript tool's options. Grapple places the transcript's timed words on a visual layer as captions. Style them like any text. Every correction you make to the transcript updates their words, and your styling stays.
Make a caption your own
To write a caption's words yourself, select the caption layer and choose Make Caption Text Independent from the Edit menu, or Make caption text independent in the tool's options. It keeps the words it shows and its styling, and stops following the transcript.