Working with the text editor

The text view shows your whole project as a readable transcript — the same captions you see on the video, laid out as paragraphs you can click, play and edit. Nothing here is a copy: every caption is live-linked to the timeline, so a fix you make in text view is instantly the caption in your video. This guide covers reading, navigating and editing in the text view.

The text view at a glance

Captions are grouped into paragraphs, each with its start and end timecode above it. The slider in the top bar controls how many captions make up a paragraph — pull it up for an airy, line-by-line layout, down for dense, document-like paragraphs.

When your project has speaker labels, a small speaker pill appears wherever the speaker changes. The Show speakers toggle hides the pills when you want distraction-free reading — the labels themselves are kept.

Playback that follows the text

Press Space anywhere to play or pause. As the audio plays, the caption being spoken lights up and the view scrolls along automatically, so your eyes never lose the place. If you scroll away to read something else, a Jump to active caption button appears to take you straight back.

The bar at the bottom is your transport: play/pause, five-second skips in both directions, and the full audio waveform — click anywhere on it to jump to that moment. Hover a paragraph's timecode and Jump to start appears for pinpoint navigation.

Editing captions inline

Click a caption once to select it and move the playhead there. Click it again — or press Enter — and it becomes editable right in place. Type your correction and press Enter (or click elsewhere) to save. The caption in the video updates the moment you do.

The killer shortcut while correcting: Tab plays just that caption's snippet of audio, even while you're mid-edit — listen, fix, move on. Use the arrow keys to hop between captions without touching the mouse.

Adjusting timing from the text

The timecodes above each paragraph aren't just labels. Click the start or end time and a small editor opens where you can nudge the timecode directly — handy when a caption starts a beat too early or lingers too long, without switching to the timeline.

Everything is saved as you go

Edits in the text view autosave just like everything else in the editor, and every change lands in your project's revision history — so correct fearlessly and use Revisions & rollback if you ever want an earlier state back.