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Describe Your First Video

In this tutorial, we’ll upload a short video, let our tool generate audio descriptions for it, and watch those descriptions line up on a timeline in the editor. By the end, you’ll have a video with audio descriptions and a downloaded caption file.

You’ll need a Content Studio account. If you don’t have one yet, start with Create your account.

1. Start a new video project

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In the sidebar, select New Video Project. (The same button sits at the top of your My Projects page.)

Each file type has its own starting point — New Video Project, New PDF Project, and Image alt text are separate entries, so you pick the kind of work before the form rather than inside it.

You’ll land on a single form in two parts: Video Source at the top, AI Settings below it.

2. Add your video

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Under Video Source, stay on the Upload File tab and drag a short video in, or click to browse. On the Free plan, videos are capped at 3 minutes, so pick something under that. Wait for the upload to finish before moving on.

You can use the YouTube URL tab instead if you’d rather. The rest of this tutorial works the same either way, with one exception noted at step 7.

Then give it a Project Name you’ll recognize later — “My first video” is fine.

3. Choose the language and start

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Under AI Settings, one field matters for your first project: Description Language — the language you want the audio descriptions written in.

You’ll notice several other options here — Template, custom instructions, a glossary and description profile, Verbosity Level, Description quality, and a Captions toggle. Leave them at their defaults for now; the how-to guide on generating and editing audio descriptions walks through what each one does.

Before you commit, check the Estimated Cost panel at the bottom. It breaks the charge down into AI processing, export, and subtitles, and it updates as you change the options above — so you can see what turning on captions or Enhanced quality will cost before you pay for it.

Select Create.

4. Wait for processing

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Our tool is now watching your video and writing audio descriptions for it. This is real analysis, not a lookup, so it takes a few minutes rather than being instant — longer for longer videos.

Your project’s status updates as it works: Pending, then Processing, then Completed.

You don’t have to sit and watch. Processing runs in the background, so you can leave the page or close the tab. And if a run takes longer than ten minutes, we email you at your account address when it finishes, with a link straight back to the project — nothing to switch on, and nothing to fill in. Short runs get no email, on the assumption you’re still looking at the page.

5. Open the editor

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Click into your project to open the editor.

The page has two halves. At the top, the video player with a panel beside it — that panel has tabs for Descriptions, Captions, and Narration. Below the player sits a settings card holding Detail Level, Export & Downloads, and Share.

Stay on the Descriptions tab for now.

  1. Select a description in the panel. The player seeks to that moment.
  2. Press play. As the video reaches each description, notice it highlights in step with the picture.

That’s your visible result: a video with audio descriptions our tool wrote and timed for you.

If a description needs work, you can ask our tool to elaborate on it without changing its meaning, or trigger a full rewrite — see the how-to guide on generating and editing audio descriptions for how.

6. Download an SRT

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Let’s get something onto your computer. In the settings card below the player, open Export & Downloads. Under the Downloads heading, select Download SRT Subtitles.

An SRT file — your captions and description text in a standard subtitle format — downloads to your computer. This download is free and always available, no matter how you created the project.

7. Export a full video or audio file (optional)

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If you uploaded a file rather than pasting a YouTube link, select Export Video in that same Export & Downloads section to produce an MP3 (audio-only) or MP4 (video) file with the descriptions mixed in, and set the quality. The narration voice comes from the project’s Narration tab, and the export dialog states which one it will use.

Projects created from a YouTube link can only download an SRT. MP3/MP4 export needs the file you uploaded.

We won’t walk through every export option here — see the how-to guide on exporting a video for the full walkthrough.

What you’ve done

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You’ve created a video project, watched our tool generate synced audio descriptions, viewed them on the editor’s timeline, and downloaded an SRT. That’s a video with audio descriptions, produced end to end.

What’s next

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