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Search by spoken words and visual content. See results across every video and every shot in your library.

A search box reading maya above two results, a shot tagged People Maya and a transcript line reading Where is she, Maya.

People matched a field you typed
Transcript matched a spoken line
Results group under the source .mov
Naming your own fields is Pro (/pricing)

Transcribe on your own machine

Transcription supports up to 100 languages and runs locally on your computer. Your footage is not uploaded to be transcribed.

The transcript sits under each shot

Every transcript line attaches to the shot whose time range it falls inside. By shot puts the thumbnails down the page with the spoken lines grouped beneath the shot they were said in, so the words stop being a separate document you keep in another window. It is the same join the search box uses, and the same join that carries into the CSV and the printed board. Four more reading modes are there when you want the text flat: By speaker, Continuous, Captions and Plain text.

The frame the line was spoken over — Speaker 2Press play · 3.5s of the master's own audio

By shot
By speaker
Continuous
Captions
Plain text

AI Autofill

Search by visual content with AI Autofill

Intelligently extract the visual data that matters most for your workflow.

Customize the AI analysis to capture exactly what matters for your workflow, team, and studio.

More in choosing a field type and using your own categories.

Six cards, one per metadata field type, each labelled with the kind of value autofill returns for it.

Powerful search features

Search transcripts, visual contents, notes and custom metadata for results across your library. Search for exact terms, similar matches, and filter by tag or other metadata.

Library box: substring, both layers, attributed

Type a word from a field or a spoken line.

Transcript box: fuzzy, spoken words only

Shot 243Speaker 2The  cops  just  searched  the  apartment  looking  for  you.  
Shot 245Speaker 2I  mean  they're  literally  still  out  front  talking  to  our  neighbors.  
Shot 245Speaker 2That's  why  I  came  in  the  back.  
Shot 247Speaker 2You're  such  a  dummy.  
Shot 248Speaker 2Everything.  
Shot 249Speaker 2I  couldn't  you  just  wait  it.  
Shot 249Speaker 2You  only  had  six  months  left.  
Shot 250Speaker 2You  know  why,  Maya?  
Shot 251Speaker 2What's  the  look?  
Shot 255Speaker 2Where  is  she,  Maya?  
Shot 256Speaker 2At  your  uncle's.  
Shot 256Speaker 3What's  up?  
Shot 259Speaker 3I  didn't  tell  you  when  I  came  visit  because  I  knew  you'll  get  like  this  and  I  know  you  hate  your  uncle  but  he's  been  all  right.  
Shot 262Speaker 3She's  supposed  to  be  here.  
Shot 262Speaker 3It's  a  lot,  Benji.  
Shot 263Speaker 3I  couldn't  do  it  anymore.  
Shot 263Speaker 3I  asked  you  to  do  this  one  thing  for  me.  
Shot 267Speaker 3Don't  make  this  work.  
Shot 267Speaker 3I  need  your  car  keys.  
Shot 267Speaker 3My  car  keys?  
Shot 269Speaker 3You  just  didn't  choose  me  again.  
Shot 270Speaker 3I  just  
Shot 270Speaker 3go.  
Shot 273Speaker 3Just  stand  in  the  woods,  get  chickens,  maybe  go.  
Shot 276Speaker 3Love  that.  
Shot 276Speaker 3You  know  I  can't.  
Shot 276Speaker 3I  see  her.  
Shot 279Speaker 3All  
Shot 280Speaker 3right.  
Shot 289Speaker 3We're  fine.  
Shot 289Speaker 3We've  got  this  covered.  
Shot 319Speaker 4on.  
Shot 319Speaker 5Look  at  you're  doing  just  fine.  
Shot 323Speaker 5Look  at  you.  
Shot 323Speaker 5Car,  car,  I'm  taking  your  car.  
Shot 323Speaker 5Oh,  no,  no,  no,  are  you,  that's  my  baby,  my  
Shot 327Speaker 5baby.  
Shot 335Speaker 5Stay  up,  stay  
Shot 335Speaker 6up.  
Shot 368Speaker 5Right  there,  copies.  
Shot 369Speaker 6My  nephew.  
Shot 369Speaker 6Stay  with  your  copies.  
Shot 370Speaker 6Stay  with  your  
Shot 370Speaker 6copies.  
Shot 380Speaker 6Don't  
Shot 381Speaker 7move.  
Shot 421Speaker 7Go  
Shot 421Speaker 8tell.  
Shot 445Speaker 8Hello,  my  sweet  boy.  
Shot 447Speaker 8I  have  missed  you  so  much.  
Shot 448Speaker 8I  bet  I  missed  you.  
Shot 448Speaker 8Your  hair  looks  so  long.  
Shot 449Speaker 8Just  something.  
Shot 449Speaker 8My  favorite.  
Shot 450Speaker 8I  should  keep  it  for  later.  
Shot 451Speaker 8You're  a  good  boy  for  coming  to  see  me.  
Shot 452Speaker 8Anything  to  be  here  with  you,  mama.  

Automatically index your entire video archive

Every shot detected and indexed by visual metadata. Every word transcribed. All searchable from one place.

The average StoryFolder customer indexes hundreds of videos and tens of thousands of shots according to a 2026 survey.

273
average number of videos: 43,861
average number of shots

Find the shot, then cut elsewhere

Reach for Descript or Reduct when changing the text is meant to change the cut.

It does	It does not
Transcribe locally on your computer	Transcribe in the cloud
Index the shots and the words you imported	Catalogue a drive it has never seen
Index by customizable AI vision analysis of every shot	Catalogue your origial footage
Find the specific videos and shots matching your search	Edit video by editing text
Underline the words the model was unsure about	Put a confidence percentage on them
Transcribe interviews and location sound	Hold accuracy through accents, overlap, noise or jargon

Export with the shot number

Five formats come out of the transcript: SRT, WebVTT, plain text, Fountain, and a CSV whose header reads start,end,shot,speaker,text. That shot column is the join leaving the app, so the file you hand a translator or a producer already knows which picture each line belongs to. The per-shot transcript prints under each card in the storyboard PDF as well, in full. None of these exports is paywalled.

Subtitles.srt
Subtitles.vtt
Transcript.txt
Transcript.csv
Script.fountain

Transcribe one interview

Sign in and download for macOS or Windows, then import one interview you have already delivered. The transcript queues itself. Type a single word from it into the Library box and watch which shots come back, and why. The b-roll reel beside it only needs a field or two typed on the shots that matter.

INTERVIEW.mov + BROLL.mov

Local transcript + fields

One search

CSV / shot

macOS and Windows

FAQ

Does transcription upload my footage?

No. Whisper runs on the desktop as a local process, and your footage is not uploaded to be transcribed.

Is Library search fuzzy?

No. The Library and board box is substring matching across titles, your Text, Dropdown, Tag and Number fields and the transcript. Fuzzy matching lives in the transcript editor's own box.

Can search find a word the transcript got wrong?

In the transcript editor, yes, within bounds: tick tock finds TikTok, and a phrase can match across a line break. Short words get no allowance, so cute never reaches cube.

Can I search speaker names?

Not from the transcript editor's search box, which reads spoken words only. Use the By speaker view to read a named speaker's lines.

What happens on a silent clip?

Transcription reports No speech found in this video and offers Transcribe again. The shot stays findable through the fields typed against it.

Which languages can it transcribe?

The catalogue lists 100 languages plus auto-detect, and a separate task transcribes into English. The model that ships as the default is the multilingual one.

Which transcript exports are free?

All five: SRT, WebVTT, plain text, CSV and Fountain. The per-shot transcript in the storyboard PDF is free too.

Does it edit video from text?

No. Deleting a word in the transcript changes the transcript. For text-based video editing, use Descript or Reduct.