Interview editing, one job at a time.
Short, specific guides to transcribing, finding, and cutting dialogue footage in Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve — written by a working documentary editor, with the exact clicks.
How to Transcribe Video in DaVinci Resolve (Free Edition Included)
Resolve's built-in transcription lives in the paid Studio edition. If you are on free Resolve, or you want speaker labels and search across a whole project, here is the route that works, step by step.
How to Export a Final Cut Pro Project as XML
File > Export XML is one command, and what you select first is the choice that matters. Which XML to export, which version, what the file carries and what it leaves behind.
How to Fix Speaker Labels in an Interview Transcript
Speaker identification gets most of a two-person interview right and goes wrong in predictable places. Here is where it breaks, how to fix a transcript fast without touching the timing, and how to record so it breaks less.
How to Transcribe an Interview in Premiere Pro Offline
Premiere Pro's Speech to Text runs on your machine once the language pack is installed. The exact route, the settings that matter, and where it stops being enough for interviews.
How to Transcribe an Interview in Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro 11 can turn timeline audio into captions. A searchable, speaker-labeled transcript of your whole interview is a different job. Here is how to get both, and when you need which.
How to Make a Stringout
The step-by-step method — with the exact mechanics in Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve.
Paper Edit from a Transcript
Transcribe, mark, structure in text, then turn the page into a timeline — the full workflow, step by step.
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