How to transcribe an interview for documentary editing

Transcript-based editing means selecting interview clips by reading the words instead of scrubbing through audio. Here is why it dominates modern documentary post and how the workflow runs.

An honest comparison of the four speech-to-text providers most documentary editors actually use, scored on accent handling, diarization, latency, and cost per hour of audio.

A paper cut is a written assembly of interview selects in the order the editor plans to use them. It is the blueprint for the rough cut. Here is how it works.