After a heavy rewrite
Rewrote a paragraph, pasted in corrected names, deleted the false starts? Realign gives every word a new start and end taken from the audio, not from the text you typed over.
Reviewed by David Dat Nguyen, CXO Last updated
Timecode realignment
Edit freely.
Retime it all.
After heavy editing the words and the audio can drift apart. Realign timecodes regenerates the start and end of every word against the recording, so subtitles, click-to-play and timed exports line up again.
One action in the Tools menu, an email when it is done, and a transcript whose timing is as fresh as a new upload.
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Every word retimed
In the Tools menu
Email when it is done
Timing that survives the edit
Three moments when a realignment pays for itself.
Before subtitles go out
Subtitle cues are built from word times. Realign first and the SRT or VTT you export follows the speech instead of the edit history.
After an aligned import
Aligned a script or an old transcript and then fixed the places where it differed from the audio? Realign to tighten every word again.
When the words moved
How three kinds of teams realign.
Filmmakers
A clean transcript for the timeline, after the edit pass.
- Realign once the interview transcript is corrected, then export to Premiere or Final Cut
- Keep frame-accurate markers trustworthy after names and terms were fixed
- Retime an aligned shooting script against the final cut
Video teams
Captions that match the speech, not the draft.
- Edit for readability, realign, then export SRT and VTT for the platform
- Burn in captions only after the timing is regenerated
- Fix a caption file that drifted after the video was re-cut
Transcription agencies
Verbatim accuracy and exact timing in the same deliverable.
- Proofread to the client's style guide, then realign before the timed export
- Deliver DOCX with paragraph timecodes that still match the audio
- Run it on the original transcript before translations are ordered
How realignment works
The settings and limits, as they are in the product today.
- An action in ToolsTools menu
- Open the transcript, choose Tools, then Realign timecodes. It runs in the background and you can keep working elsewhere.
- Every word, from the audio0.01 s
- The whole file is processed against the recording and each word gets a new start and end to the hundredth of a second.
- Billed for the full fileFull length
- A realignment uses the hours for the length of the recording, like a transcription of the same file, on every plan including the trial minutes.
- Email on completionEmail
- You get an email when the realigned transcript is ready, or if the realignment could not finish.
- Original transcript onlyOriginal only
- Realign runs on the transcribed text. Translations and redacted copies keep the timing of the original they were made from.
- Not in the APIEditor only
- Realignment is an editor action. The API aligns a transcript you send with the media at upload, which is a different step.
Realignment, answered
How would a video team use realignment before captions?
Edit the transcript for readability, fix the names, remove the false starts, then run Realign timecodes from Tools. When the email arrives, export SRT or VTT and the cues follow the speech. Burn in the captions only after that step, so the rendered video does not carry the draft timing.
When do I need to realign?
After heavy edits: whole sentences rewritten, text pasted in, many words deleted or added. Small corrections keep the surrounding times and do not need it. If click-to-play lands a beat early or late, or subtitle cues look off, realign.
Is it free?
No. A realignment uses the hours for the length of the file, the same as transcribing it. That is why the usual order is edit everything first, realign once, then export.
Will realigning change my text?
No. It keeps every word as you edited it and recalculates only the times. Speaker names, notes and highlights stay as they are.
Can I realign a translation?
No. Realign runs on the original transcript. Translations and redacted copies inherit the timing of that original, so realign it first and then order or refresh the translation.
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