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Start freeProve it on your own footage before you decide — a real video of your own, start to finish. No card, no server to run, no API key to manage.
7-day trial, unlimited transcription
- AI transcription of the active sequence — no export
- Around 100 languages, with Hindi, English and Hinglish auto-detected
- All twenty-one animated caption styles, previewed on your own frame
- Emphasis text — keyword pops timed to the spoken word
- AutoZoom punch-ins on a non-destructive adjustment layer
- Free stock B-roll from Pexels and Pixabay, matched to your transcript
- B-Roll Studio generated overlays
- Circle picture-in-picture and glass bubbles
- Silence Cut and filler-word removal
- YouTube chapter generation
- Save your own house style
- No credit card, no server, no API key
Billed $59 once a year — 45% off the monthly rate.
Lock in $59/yearPriced below what the transcription and AI cost us to run, because early subscribers earn that. The rate goes up later — join now and yours doesn't.
300 minutes every 30 days — about twenty videos
- Everything in the free trial, with no feature held back
- 300 transcribed minutes on a rolling 30-day window
- Your $59 stays $59 for as long as you stay subscribed
- Early rate locked in before the price rises
- Cancel in two clicks — no email, no call
- Switch to monthly at $9 any time
- Priority on bug reports from paying subscribers
- Works on macOS and Windows from the one package
DaVinci Resolve is coming
The same captions, zooms and chapters, inside Resolve. It is being built now — no date promised until there is one worth printing.
Before you pay for anything
$9/month, or $59/year — 45% off the monthly rate. In India it is billed in rupees: ₹699/month or ₹3999/year (52% off the monthly rate). Every paid plan includes 300 transcribed minutes per rolling 30 days, which is roughly twenty videos a month. Before any of that you get a 7-day free trial with every AI feature unlocked, unlimited transcription and no card.
A subscription. There is no lifetime licence and no one-time price, because the transcription and AI behind every feature cost money each time you run them — a single payment could only be funded by capping what you use afterwards. What you can do instead is pay yearly: $59 (₹3999 in India) is one charge instead of twelve, at 45% off the monthly rate.
The actual length of the audio you transcribe, measured in seconds and shown to you in minutes. A 4-minute 30-second sequence costs you 4.5 minutes, not 5 — there is no per-job rounding and no minimum charge. Only transcription draws on your minutes: once the transcript exists, captions, AutoZoom, chapters, emphasis text, silence cutting and B-roll all run off it at no further cost, however many times you redo them.
No. Your allowance is 300 minutes across a rolling 30-day window, so minutes free up 30 days after you spend them rather than resetting on a billing date. In practice that is gentler than a calendar month — a heavy week does not leave you stuck until the 1st — but it does mean an unused month is not banked.
Yes. Backstage Cut is a panel that runs inside Premiere Pro, not a replacement for it, so you need your own Premiere licence from Adobe — 2021 (15.0) or later. Nothing here is resold or bundled: we are not affiliated with Adobe, and your Premiere subscription is entirely between you and them.
You can cancel anytime, from the pricing card or the panel's Account page, and you keep everything you have paid for until the end of the period you already bought. Charges already taken for a completed period are not refunded — which is exactly why the trial is a real 7-day window with every feature unlocked and no card: spend it on the video you are actually editing before you pay anything.
Yes, and it is the default in India rather than something to ask for. Indian customers are billed in rupees through Razorpay — ₹699/month or ₹3999/year — so there is no dollar conversion and no foreign-transaction fee from your bank. Everywhere else is billed in dollars through Stripe.