Add clips to the script

The three ways to bring footage in, and the difference between a transcribed pick and a cold import

The unit you add to a paper edit is the whole asset. After it lands, you trim its words back with the drag handles. There's no drag-text-from-transcript-to-paper-edit gesture today. That's planned, not built.

There are three ways to add a clip.

File picker

Click "Add Clip" in the toolbar above the script panel. The macOS file panel opens. Pick one or more .mp4 or .mov files.

A confirmation sheet appears with two buttons: Add and Add and Transcribe Now. Anything you picked that isn't already in your library gets flagged in the sheet so you know what's about to be imported.

Library pick

Click the chevron next to "Add Clip". A dropdown shows your top 40 most-recently-transcribed clips. Pick one and it lands in the script panel. This is the fastest path when you're working in the same project for a while: the clips you've been transcribing are right there.

Drag onto the sidebar

Drag files from the Library or from Finder onto the paper edit's row in the sidebar. Same confirmation sheet as the file picker, same two buttons.

What lands enabled, what lands disabled

Here's the part to know.

If the clip is already transcribed, it lands enabled. The starting in-point is the first word's start, the out-point is the last word's end. Ready to trim.

If the clip is not transcribed yet, it lands disabled. The in-point sits at zero, the out-point at the full duration, and the row sits dim. An orange "Needs transcription" banner shows across the top of the panel. Each untranscribed row gets a "Transcribe this clip" button.

Once it's transcribed, the row enables itself and the in/out snap to the first and last word. From there, trimming is the same as any other row.

We run transcription on your Mac, so a cold import waiting on a transcript is just the work the app would have done eventually. Doing it after you've stacked your shots is fine.