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How captions work, which subtitle format to use, and how to read a very long video quickly.
· workflow · research
Reading a three-hour podcast in ten minutes
A practical method for getting what you need out of a very long video without watching it, using search, timestamps and a spot-check pass.
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SRT vs VTT: which subtitle file do you actually need?
The two formats carry identical cues and differ in about three characters. Knowing which one your editor or player expects saves an import error and a confusing hour.
Read it →· captions · how it works
How YouTube captions actually work (and why that matters for transcripts)
Every transcript tool is really a caption tool. Here is what YouTube publishes, the difference between a written and an automatic track, and what that means for the text you get back.
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