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# Edit with the transcript

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## Editing videos using the transcript in Tella

Most videos recorded in Tella come with an automatically generated transcript. You edit it in the **Script** panel — the sidebar on the right side of the editor (toggle it with the **Script** button, or **Shift + S**).

## Accessing the transcript

The transcript lives in the **Script** panel on the right side of the editor. (This is the "script sidebar" — the panel header reads **Script**, and it's a separate thing from the **Subs** panel, which is where you edit on-screen subtitles.) You can click any word to jump to that point in the video, or select text to cut, keep, or copy sections — all without switching panels.

If you want to access transcript editing through the trim tool instead, click **Trim** in the toolbar, scroll to the bottom, and click **Transcript** > **Edit**.

The **Script** panel shows the transcripts for **all clips** in your video at once, each in its own labeled section. Click any clip's header to jump to it, or click any word to seek directly to that moment. The active clip's header is highlighted.

## Navigating and previewing your video

Click on any word in the transcript sidebar to jump to that point in the video. This lets you quickly preview and locate specific parts without scrubbing through the timeline.

## Selecting text

Click and drag across words to select a range of text — the selection highlights in the transcript.

**Tip**: Double-click a word to select the whole sentence it belongs to, instead of just that one word. (If any clip in your video has a Thai transcript, double-click only selects that single word — sentence boundaries aren't detected for Thai yet.)

## Searching the transcript

Use transcript search to find specific words or phrases across your entire video without scrolling.

1. Open the search bar with **Cmd + F** (Mac) or **Ctrl + F** (Windows), or click the magnifying glass icon at the bottom of the **Script** panel.

2. Start typing. Matches are highlighted in the transcript as you type.

3. Use the **up** and **down** chevrons next to the search field to step to the previous or next match. The video seeks to each match as you navigate, and the match count (for example, **3 / 12**) shows where you are in the results.

4. If there are no matches, the search field turns red.

When you navigate to a match in a different clip, Tella automatically activates that clip and seeks to it.

### AI search

For more flexible searching, click the **sparkles (✨) button** on the right side of the search bar to enable AI search. Instead of matching exact words, AI search understands natural-language queries — so you can describe what you're looking for rather than remembering the exact phrasing.

For example, you can type things like:

* *Where do I talk about pricing?*
* *Find where I mention the onboarding flow*
* *What part explains how to get started?*

When AI search is active, the placeholder text in the search bar changes to prompt natural-language queries. While your query is being processed, the sparkles button shows a spinner — exact keyword matches are highlighted right away, and AI results are added when the search completes.

Click the sparkles button again to switch back to regular keyword search. Tella remembers which mode you last used.

## Removing unwanted words or sections

### Removing words or phrases

1. **Select** the word, phrase, or sentence you wish to remove.

2. Press the **Backspace** or **Delete** key on your keyboard, or click the **Delete** button in the editor.

3. The selected text will be removed from the transcript and the corresponding section will be cut from the video timeline.

### Keeping only specific parts

If you want to keep a specific section and remove everything else:

1. Select the desired text.

2. Click on **Keep Only This**.

3. All other parts of the transcript (and video) will be removed, leaving only the selected section.

**Tip**: This is useful when the majority of the video is unnecessary, and you want to focus on a particular segment.

### Copying a selection to a new clip

You can create a new clip from a selected portion of the transcript:

1. Select the words you want to extract.

2. Click **Copy to new clip** in the toolbar that appears.

3. A new clip containing only the selected section is added to your timeline.

This is useful when you want to isolate a specific part of a clip for reordering or applying different edits. You can undo this action with **Cmd + Z** (Mac) or **Ctrl + Z** (Windows).

### Copying a selection to a new video

To create an entirely new video from a selected portion of the transcript:

1. Select the words you want to extract.

2. Click **Copy to new video** in the toolbar that appears.

3. A new video is created with the selected section, and it opens in a new tab.

## Undoing and redoing edits

You can undo and redo most transcript editing actions, including cuts, deletions, and copying to a new clip:

* **Undo**: Press **Cmd + Z** (Mac) or **Ctrl + Z** (Windows), or click the undo button in the editor toolbar.
* **Redo**: Press **Cmd + Shift + Z** (Mac) or **Ctrl + Y** (Windows), or click the redo button in the editor toolbar.

## Managing deleted content

### Hide deleted text:

* Toggle the **Hide Deleted** option to remove deleted text from the transcript view.

* This helps you focus on the remaining content that you may still want to edit.

### Fine-tuning edits in the timeline

* After making initial edits in the transcript, you can switch to the **Timeline** for more precise adjustments.

* **Zoom in**: Use the zoom controls to get a closer view of your edits.

* **Adjust segments**: Click and drag the edges of segments on the timeline to fine-tune the start and end points down to the split second.

## Editing the transcript text

**Important**: You cannot change the actual words in the transcript editor; you can only remove them.

### To edit subtitles:

1. Switch to the **Subtitle** mode.

2. Click on **Edit**.

3. You'll see an editable version of all the text subtitles in your video, along with timestamps.

4. Here, you can correct any transcription errors or modify the text that appears on screen.

### Deleting or restoring a single subtitle word

Right-click any word in the subtitle editor to open a context menu with two options:

* **Delete** — hides the word from the subtitles without cutting it from the video.
* **Restore** — brings back a word you previously deleted.

The menu is also available on deleted words, so you can restore them without leaving the subtitle editor.

### Resetting edits

If you've made changes you're not satisfied with and wish to revert to the original video:

1. Scroll to the bottom of the transcript editor.

2. Click on **Reset Trims**.

3. This will restore your clip to its original form.

## Why the Script panel and subtitles can show different words

The **Script** panel and your **subtitles** don't always show the exact same words, and that's intentional — they serve two different goals.

* **The Script panel is an editing tool.** It reflects what was actually spoken, including filler words like "um", "ah", and "mm", along with false starts. While **Trimming**, these are kept visible so you can find them and cut them from your video.

* **Subtitles are what your viewers see.** To keep on-screen captions clean and readable, Tella automatically filters out filler words and disfluencies. They won't appear in your burned-in or downloaded subtitles even if they're still spoken in the video.

So if you notice a stray "um" in the **Script** panel that isn't in your exported subtitles, that's expected: the Script panel is editorial (built for you, the editor), while subtitles are presentational (built for your audience). The two may diverge further over time as Tella surfaces more editing detail in the Script panel while keeping subtitles clean.

If you want to remove a filler word from the video itself — not just hide it from the subtitles — cut it from the **Script** panel or use the **Remove filler words** tool while trimming.

## Additional tips

* **Efficient workflow**: Using the transcript for editing can significantly speed up your workflow, as it allows you to identify and remove unwanted parts without scrubbing through the entire video.

* **Combining editing methods**: You can combine transcript editing with traditional timeline editing for greater control over your video's final outcome.