Find what you said

Somewhere in forty minutes you explained the thing properly, once. You don’t remember the minute. You remember a word. That’s enough. You know what you said, and Splicer finds the clip by the word, and you keep it right there from the search box without going anywhere.

Open search

On the desk, press Ctrl+F, or Cmd+F on a Mac. / opens it too while a video is open, as long as you aren’t typing in a box at that moment, like the search box or the key box. In the terminal workspace, search is / or Ctrl+F.

Type the word, and the clips where it was said come up, from every audio track, whichever one you picked.

Walk the matches

You don’t leave the search box to act on what it found.

and choose a match. Enter goes to it. drops it and keeps it, exactly as on the rail. Ctrl+Space plays it, for the times the words look right and you want to hear the delivery before you commit. On a Mac that one stays Ctrl+Space, because Cmd+Space is Spotlight. Esc closes the search.

Read the clip

The page in the middle of the desk always shows the clip you are on: its picture, its title and its words on its paper. Enter on a match brings its clip to the page, so when a match is close but you want to see the whole thing you said, read it there before you keep it. A long clip’s words stop at about 460 characters.

Follow the words

On the desk, the caption under the clip’s picture lights word by word as it plays, or as you move the pointer over the picture, so your eye stays on the word being said instead of hunting through the line for it.

A cue for cutting, not captions

The words you’ve been searching are not captions, and Splicer is not a transcription tool. The words are a cue for cutting, not captions: they show you where the recording is worth something and where it isn’t, and they point you to the second you want. They don’t need to be perfect for that. You know what you said.

Captions are a separate thing, and they live on the export sheet. They’re the karaoke kind, burned into the exported video, and they’re off until you turn them on; Splicer remembers your last choice. On the sheet, c turns them on or off, and pick the look from ten (anton, pixel, fraktur, neon, bungee, marker, fredoka, courier, inter and bangers), and + and - size them.

Next, a recording with two audio tracks, or two languages, in it.