How minutes are counted

Brevidy counts minutes by the second, and only for audio it hasn't transcribed before. Producer and Team Pro have unlimited captions.

What uses caption minutes#

• Creating captions: the audio your edit uses under the caption layer.
• Add Transcription and Sync, for footage not transcribed before.
• Translation, at a quarter of the set's length. See Translate captions.
• Re-transcribe instead when upgrading 1.9 captions. The normal upgrade is free. See Upgrading from 1.9.

Each job bills its new audio plus one second, with no one-minute minimum. Clips from different media files are separate jobs.

Several mics#

Each audible track under the caption layer counts on its own: two mics recording the same 10 minutes use about 20 minutes. Muted tracks, disabled clips and clips with the volume all the way down aren't charged, so mute a backup mic before you create captions.

What's free#

Brevidy saves each media file's transcript on your computer and reuses it for free:

• Sync after cutting, trimming or moving clips you already captioned
• Deleting captions and creating them again over the same footage
• Pasting captions into another sequence
• Audio with no speech, such as music or silence
• Jobs that fail

Check the cost before a long job#

On metered plans, a job over 8 minutes asks first. The Transcribe source clips window (Sync captions for a Sync) shows about how many minutes it will use. Confirm, or cancel at no cost.

Check your minutes#

• In the panel: hover over the ring around your account picture.
• On the website: brevidy.pro/dashboard/usage shows minutes used, what's left and recent jobs.

Good to know#

• Saved transcripts stay on each computer. Footage is billed again on another computer, for a teammate, or after Clear Transcript Cache.
• A track that was muted at Create wasn't transcribed. Turning it on and running Sync uses minutes.
• One job can be up to 120 minutes of audio. For longer edits, caption part of the sequence, then use Add Transcription.
• A job only starts if you have enough minutes for all of it. Otherwise you see You are out of captioning minutes. Minutes don't roll over.