Video to text from a file on your machine

Drag the file onto the card. The words come back as text you can use.

Quick answer

To convert a video to text, drag your MP4 or MOV onto Drop and press Drop it. Drop reads the audio track, writes out every spoken word and returns the full transcript with the core ideas and quote cards you can brand. No video editor, no plugin and no account required.

Not every video has a link. Screen recordings, exported edits, a webinar someone sent you, footage that never got published anywhere. Drop takes the file directly, reads the audio track and writes it down, so the content of a video is no longer trapped inside the file. It is the same pipeline used for public links, just fed from your disk instead of a URL, and the same outputs come out the other end.

Steps

  1. Step 1

    Drag the file onto the card

    Drop an MP4 or MOV onto the main input card on the homepage, or use the Upload audio or video button if you prefer a file picker.

  2. Step 2

    Let the upload run

    The file uploads in resumable chunks with live progress, then goes straight into transcription without another click.

  3. Step 3

    Take the transcript and the ideas

    Full text on one side, core ideas and a remember list on the other, plus the quotes worth turning into cards.

What you get

Questions

Which video formats work?
MP4 and MOV cover almost everything people have. Other common containers generally go through as well.
Does the video itself get analysed?
No. Drop reads the audio track. Slides, on screen text and visuals are not part of the transcript.
Is a long recording a problem?
No. Webinars and full length recordings run on the extended job window used for podcasts.
What happens to my file?
It is uploaded to private storage for processing and is not published anywhere. The outputs are yours to download.

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