MP4 to Text

Most "video to text" workflows start with a chore: rip the audio track out of the MP4 with some converter, then feed that file to a transcription tool, then reconcile the results. Every meeting recording, webinar replay, lecture capture, and interview video adds another round trip — and the video itself stays unsearchable the whole time.

Castmagic takes the MP4 directly. Upload the video or paste a link, and the audio track is extracted and transcribed in one pass — speaker labels, timestamps, 60+ languages. Minutes later you have a transcript you can search, quote, and turn into summaries, articles, and clips.

The MP4s worth transcribing

MP4 is the default container for almost everything recorded on screen or camera: Zoom, Teams, and Meet recordings, webinar replays, course videos, conference talks, customer interviews, YouTube exports. Each of them is full of decisions, quotes, and answers that are invisible to search until they're text.

Teams transcribe meeting MP4s to extract action items and minutes. Course creators turn lecture videos into study guides and accessibility-ready text. Marketers mine webinar recordings for blog posts and follow-up emails.

What the transcript looks like

Every speaker turn is labeled and timestamped, with paragraph breaks at topic shifts. Word-level timing is tracked under the hood, so exports stay accurate whether you need readable text, subtitle cues, or per-utterance data. A custom-spelling list keeps product names and jargon correct across every video you process.

One video, six export formats

The same transcript downloads as TXT for notes and docs, SRT or VTT if you need captions for the video itself, PDF for a polished shareable document, DOCX for editing in Word, and CSV for analysis. Convert once, export in whatever shape each task needs.

Then let the AI do the writing

A transcribed MP4 is one click from becoming a meeting summary, a set of action items, show notes, a blog draft, or social posts — Castmagic's AI presets generate them from the transcript, grounded in what was actually said.