Time codes on every word
Click a word to seek the video. Captions stay in sync after edits because the timing data is attached to the text, not to a separate file you have to keep aligned.
Turn any video in Google Drive™ into a time-coded, editable transcript. Use it to search, copy, caption, or pull clips straight from the text.
Transcribe a video freeThe problem
Almost every useful thing you can do with a video — searching it, captioning it, repurposing it into shorts, pulling quotes, building accessibility — starts with a transcript. For years the answer has been a separate tool: Otter for meetings, Rev for accuracy, YouTube's auto-captions for free. Each one is a detour. You upload the file somewhere, wait, then download the result and re-attach it to whatever workflow needed it.
Very Big Clips transcribes your Google Drive™ video inside the same tool you would use to clip it. The transcript is editable, every word carries its timestamp, and the same text you correct in the editor is the text that drives caption rendering and clip selection. No round trip.
Step-by-step
Open Very Big Clips and sign in with the Google account that owns the videos you want to transcribe. Grant the Drive scope when prompted — the app only reads the folders you point it at.
Use the Drive picker to choose any MP4, MOV, WebM, or AVI file. Large files are streamed from Drive — you do not need to download a 10 GB recording to your laptop just to get a transcript.
Very Big Clips runs the audio through Google Cloud Speech-to-Text and returns a transcript in minutes. Every word is tagged with its start and end timestamp, so the result is not just plain text — it is a structured map of the video.
Click any word to seek the video. Fix mis-recognized terms inline. Copy the whole transcript as text, or highlight a passage to turn it into a clip — captions and clip boundaries are generated from the transcript you already corrected.
Why Very Big Clips for transcription
Click a word to seek the video. Captions stay in sync after edits because the timing data is attached to the text, not to a separate file you have to keep aligned.
Mis-transcribed names, brand terms, and jargon are a click away. Fix the transcript once and every downstream caption, clip, and export inherits the correction.
The transcript is not a dead-end deliverable. Highlight a sentence and you have a clip. Stitch two passages and you have a short. Same text, no second tool.
FAQ
Very Big Clips transcribes MP4, MOV, WebM, and AVI files stored in Google Drive™. Audio-only files (MP3, M4A, WAV) also work if you just need the text.
Very Big Clips uses Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, which is strong on clearly recorded English speech. Heavy accents, overlapping speakers, and loud background music will reduce accuracy. Every transcript is editable in place, so correcting a brand name or proper noun takes seconds.
Yes. Transcripts can be copied as plain text and exported in caption formats you can re-attach to a video. The timing data stays with every word, so subtitles produced from the transcript stay in sync if you edit elsewhere.
No. Transcription is part of Very Big Clips. The free tier handles short videos; paid plans raise the monthly duration limit. If you are already paying for a transcription-only service and using Drive as your storage layer, Very Big Clips usually replaces it.
Very Big Clips reads only the Drive files you explicitly select. Audio is processed by Google Cloud Speech-to-Text inside the same Google ecosystem your file already lives in — no third-party transcription provider receives a copy.
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