Export Just Markers for Timestamps
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Support Team
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Exporting Session Markers
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Jeffrey Feldberg
Export session markers so third party audio services like Auphonic can insert the markers into the finished production.
Canny AI
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Exportable Timestamp Chapter Markers
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Brock Briggs
First off thank you for adding the ability to do chapter markers! Creating these manually is such a pain!
There's one extension of this that's required for this to be useful - we need to be able to export those chapter markers.
So in AI bar we add 6 chapter markers. It creates them. I want to be able to export a file that looks like this
00:00 Introduction
05:37 Guest talks about podcasting
07:39 Guest 2 responds with this
We can then paste these show notes to Youtube. Manually pulling these out of the transcript or doing them is excruciating.
Canny AI
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Export Chapter headings to VTT file format
John Oliver
It would be very helpful to have the VTT file export to include Chapter headings...for the moment you can only export the full transcript. I have a client who uses JWPlayer on their website, and the Chapter headings, similar to YouTube would be very helpful. The format would follow these guidelines: https://docs.jwplayer.com/platform/docs/vdh-vtt-file-creation
John Oliver
I found a way to access that format, if you go to the YouTube Export step, then you can see a window that lists all these headings with timestamps...you can just copy and paste from there.
I am now submitting a request that you can also export the same list as a VTT format file (for use with a video player called JWplayer)
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Steve Nay
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Agreed. I use a list of the first 10 Markers in the Buzzsprout episode description so that it gives a teaser of what the episode is about. If I could export them along with the timestamps, that would save me a lot of time.
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Jordan Bench
+1 to exporting markers as a feature!!!
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Johnnie
This would truly be a great time saver.
Dylan Stewart (The MacWhisperer)
This would be super helpful. I record youtube videos but do not publish through Descript, and have to manually copy the markers and timestamps out. Very time consuming.
Nono Martínez Alonso
A note for everyone who's looking for this feature while it is not supported in Descript.
- These chapters are automatically added to your YouTube video when you publish from Descript. This is not my use case and I don't want to go through Descript's publishing process just to get the markers.
- I've developed a custom TypeScript program to turn plain-text transcripts from Descript into YouTube timestamps. (The script is open-sourced at https://github.com/nonoesp/markers2markdown/blob/master/descript.ts) I know this won't be easy to use for non-developers. If there's interest I could create a drag-and-drop web app that can be used on the browser.
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This is the command run from Terminal on macOS for reference.
ts-node /Users/nono/repos/github.com/nonoesp/markers2markdown/descript.ts \
--path="/Users/nono/Desktop/transcript-from-descript.txt" \
--video-id="Ogkb0B-_Oxk"
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I'm attaching a few screenshots to illustrate this process. =)
[1] Export settings in Descript.
[2] YouTube chapters.
[3] Markdown marker list linking to chapter timestamps.
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Kindly,
Nono
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Johnnie
Nono Martínez Alonso: I would love something I could just put on my desktop.
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