Workflow guides
Practical steps for narration, subtitles and video planning.
50 new guides grouped under editorial archive dates October 23–29, 2026. They were published on October 29; archive grouping does not represent earlier publication.
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Prioritize speech-recognition review without trusting confidence scores alone
An automatic transcript can look convincing while containing a wrong surname, number or negation.
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Selectable captions or burned subtitles: specify both deliverables clearly
A client asking for a video with subtitles may mean a selectable caption track, words permanently rendered into the picture or both.
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Turn subtitles into a transcript without claiming the words were verified
Extracting text from subtitles is useful for a searchable transcript, research notes or a description draft.
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Reflow subtitle lines without accidentally changing cue timing
Line wrapping and cue timing are separate editing decisions.
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Why two caption reading-speed counters can disagree
A character-per-second result is only meaningful when the counting convention is known.
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Diagnose subtitle drift with two anchors before applying an offset
If subtitles are correct near the beginning but wrong near the end, changing one offset may improve one location while making another worse.