Correct the transcript without changing the video

Transcription gets names, jargon and the odd word wrong. Correcting the transcript fixes the words and the captions made from them, and never touches the video: the length, the cuts and the picture stay exactly as they were.

Correct a few words

1. Select the wrong words. They must be within one sentence.
2. Press Correct in the bar over the selection, or press the C key. You can also right-click and choose Correct the transcript….
3. Type the right words in Corrected text and press Return, or press Correct.

A corrected word is underlined. Hover over it to see what the transcript said before.

To remove words from the video rather than fix them, press Delete instead - see Edit video by editing the script.

Correct the same mistake everywhere

If the same wrong reading appears elsewhere in the script, the correction box offers a checkbox to correct the other places that read the same, and says how many there are. Tick it to fix them all in one go.

In a transcript made on your Mac, the box also offers to have new transcripts spell it your way from now on: tick the box that reads "Always spell" your words "in new transcripts". That adds the pair to your glossary; see Teach Rooster to spell names your way.

Type over the script in Correct mode

For a run of fixes, Correct mode makes the script editable like a document.

1. Turn it on with Edit > Correct Mode, or Correct mode in the correction box or the right-click menu.
2. Click into a sentence and type. Each sentence is saved as a correction when you move to another, or press Return.
3. Press Done correcting, or Escape, to finish.

While Correct mode is on, Space types a space; use ⌘S to play and pause. Each edit stays inside one sentence, so you cannot type over a ¦ cut mark, a scene mark or the gap between sentences, and typing never removes media - Rooster says so if you try.

Outside Correct mode, typing in the script changes nothing: Rooster shows Typing does not change the script and points you to Correct.

Put a correction back

Select the corrected words and press Correct again. The box offers Revert to original, and Revert all when the same correction was made in several places. Undo (⌘Z) works as well.

What cannot be corrected

• A selection across two sentences: correct one sentence at a time.
• A script you typed yourself, rather than one transcribed from the recording: there is no transcript to correct it against, so edit the text instead.