1. Navigate to https://app.podup.com/home

There are 2 different ways to access the Transcriber

2. 1) Click "Transcriber" in "Favorite Modules" on the Dashboard

3. 2) Click "Edit"

4. Click "Transcriber"

5. Click "Create New Project"

6. Select the correct aspect ratio for your content

• 9:16 - Vertical, recommended for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and Facebook Reels
• 16:9 - Landscape, perfect for YouTube, Facebook and LikedIn
• 1:1 - Square, recommended for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter

Click "Continue" to move into the transcriber

7. Click "Upload Video"

8. A popup will appear for you to select a video to upload from your recorded content

9. Once you select a video a preview of that video will appear. Confirm it is the right video by clicking "Select"

10. Once the Transcriber loads you it will open with a page very similar to the editor titled "Transcription AI"

11. "Captions" is where you can edit your captions

12. Click "Style" to choose between 12 different templates for your captions

13. Click "Edit" to customize your captions (font family, size, and color)

14. "Font Color" is the color of the standard font in the frame

"Highlight Text Color" refers to the word currently being spoken that gets highlighted

• This color can be changed by typing in a specific hex code or selecting the colored dot

15. Besides font color, you can also adjust the outline and shadow

Outline: The border or edge around the letters - this can help words stand out

Shadow: A faint, dark copy of the text placed behind it to make the words to stand out

16. Click "Edit" to edit your text

17. Click specific word to easily edit them by typing the desired word in its place

18. Click "Trash" to indicate that you don't want to use that caption entirely

19. Deleted text won't disappear completely but rather will be muted to indicate that it is not being used.

If you decide that you want to add that caption, click the "Undo" icon

20. Click the "Find and Replace All" icon

• This feature allows you to search for a specific word and replace it with something else
• You can replace all instances of this word or you can replace them one by one by selecting the phrase located at the bottom of the popup. Navigate the phrases by the up and down arrows located on the left hand side

21. For example, I said "just" a lot but I didn't want that in my text so I decided to replace it with a space. It gave me 3 phrases that contained "just". I could have replaced "just" in individual phrases by selecting the phrase and navigating to it but I chose to replace all of them by selecting "Replace All"

22. Click "Find and Replace Filler Words" to get rid of filler words

Filler words are words like "um", "hm", "so", and "ah" that people use subconsciously to fill space.

23. Click "History" to see the history of what you have changed in the subtitles

• You can go back to the original subtitles with no changes by selecting "Initial State"

24. Click "Save Transcription" to save the changes that you made to the transcript

25. View the text with the video in the "Timeline" slide your cursor along that layer in the timeline

26. Click the 3 dots by edit to download the transcription or SRT

• Transcription: Full written version of everything said
• SRT: A time-coded version of spoken words