Copy/paste with link to timestamps in outside doc
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Lauren Schiller
Temi.com offers the ability to copy and paste from their transcripts into an outside file (eg google docs) and it always includes the timecode and a link to the original transcript. Can you do that?
Tiago Liko
I think this thread missed the point, there's too much emphasis on the hyperlink.. If i copy a sentence and paste is anywhere else, it would be nice if the timestamp associated with that part were pasted too.. with or without hyperlink.. would be nice to have that option.. it would amazing actually
Canny AI
Merged in a post:
Add hyperlinks to script that are functional on transcript export
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Michael
I will often add hyperlinks to my final transcript that link to content relevant to what we are discussing (e.g., a previous podcast episode).
Currently, my workflow is to make a placeholder when I am editing the script in Descript, so that I can easily find this text again after exporting the final transcript to Word and a link.
It would improve the workflow is the link could be added within Decript so that the exported transcript has the functioning link already (i.e., no need to edit the exported transcript).
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J D
The exports include timestamps. They are very good with lots of options and they handle Google Docs very well in RTF. For example, if you export the RTF, you will get the Google Docs outline of all the Markers you place in your Descript file. So it's nice.
If you copy the transcript into a tool like InqScribe, all the timestamp markers become hot/live, so you can click on them and go right to that video timestamp and play.
However, no, the export doesn't offer a built in hyperlink to a specific time stamp. I think this is because Descript doesn't seem to offer timestamp based links at all. They offer a URL to each project and each composition, but not to any timestamps inside the video.
Also missing:
No way to link to a drive
No way to link to a folder
No way to link to a comment
No way to link to a marker
No way to link to a title
No links to media artifacts in the project
No links to drawings placed on the media (rectangles, circles, arrows, progress bars, etc.)
Personally, I would really like everything to be contextual. If it exists, there should be a URL to find it. Uniform Resource Locators should be everywhere and easy to access with a hotkey as quickly as copy / paste.
Being able to tell somebody, please go look at my comment here on descript and having a link that sends them to the video, opens the comment, opens the video to that exact timecode for the comment, is invaluable. Obviously it should probably even work for specific x/y coordinates on the video and a z component for the time.
So the engineers just need to design the API so that all of that is accessible via URLs.