12 eps × 90 min — what plan survives?
52 Sundays — what does the year cost?
YouTube chapters in one paste
MCP weaverclip_bulk_create_edits — copy into description.
Before you record lesson one
When does your drive fill?
Your 2TB drive, your schedule, your bitrate — one date.
2.70 GB/h · 32.4 GB/week
Paste your Output settings
We read VBitrate and tell you what a night costs.
24–72h — will you lose the best hour?
Courses: searchable transcript beats scrubbing 12 hours of your own course.
Turn a 12-hour course into a searchable transcript. Search 'pricing' → jump to 01:42:11, create a 45s captioned clip with Space preset, download full VTT to LMS. Schedule transcribe per module, not all 12h, to save transcript hours.
A course is 8 modules × 5 lessons × 18 min = 12h at 6 Mbps ≈ 32.4 GB. Searching that by scrubbing is 12h of your life. Searching 'module 3 pacing' in 300ms and getting 6 hits with startMs/endMs is 3 seconds. Weaver transcribes once, then every caption, search, and bulk create reuses it. The biggest course sellers care because their vault is also their LMS source — full-stream SRT/VTT downloadable without making a clip, then 40 lessons as 40 captioned squares later.
Word-timed transcript: every word has timing, not a blob — c
Space preset — wide tracking 0.015, sky #7CC6F5, airy for te
Schedule transcribe per module: Module 3 only, not all 12h,
Course Module Planner: modules × lesson length → transcript
Sharp nuances you didn't know you needed — until you're live
Course Module Planner — the spreadsheet before you record lesson one
Modules × lessons × length → transcript hrs, renders, GB, 180-day survival through launch. 8 modules × 5 lessons × 18 min = 12h, 40 lessons. At 6 Mbps that's 32.4 GB, 12h transcript, 40 renders. Free 2h holds one module, Creator 4h holds two, Pro 8h holds four, Studio 70h holds the whole course plus 58h headroom for re-records. The nuance: transcript hours are scarcer than storage, so you don't transcribe 12h on day one. Upload 12h, schedule transcribe Module 1 only (1.5h), get 30 ranked moments, make 5 squares, ship, repeat. The planner on /features/transcription does that math before you hit record.
Search without scrubbing — the 12h you get back
weaverclip_search_transcript query 'module 3 pacing' across 12h returns 6 hits in 300ms without downloading video — each hit is startMs/endMs + snippet you feed to bulk create. For a course, that's 'where did I say pricing for the third time?' in 3 seconds, not 3 hours of scrubbing. The transcript is tsvector indexed, so 'pricing' matches 'price' with ranking. Try it live on /docs — paste any 2-hour transcript and see the 10 hits before you sign up.
Captions that teachers trust — readability, not decoration
Caption Readability on /features/captions: paste transcript + duration → WPM, chars/line, 'needs 2 lines' flags. You talk at 187 WPM, your captions need two lines or nobody reads them. Max 16 chars for 9:16, 34 for 16:9, leadIn 100ms, hold 150ms, min 400ms, baseline 0.74. Space preset (wide tracking 0.015, sky) is for interviews and essays — airy, modern, readable on phone without eye strain. Change from Clean to Space without re-transcribing — same words, new font.
Full-stream SRT to LMS — upload once, clip later
From any session with transcript, FullStreamCaptions stitches transcript_chunks into SRT: 1\n00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,400\nText and VTT: WEBVTT\n00:00:01.200. Same chunks that power 20/h suggestions. Download the 12h SRT tonight, import to your LMS, come back next week to bulk-create 40 lessons as captioned squares via weaverclip_bulk_create_edits without re-transcribing. That's the 'plus the clips later' you asked for. The biggest course platforms care because their vault is their source of truth — one transcript, many derivatives.
Questions that decide the purchase — answered before you ask
Do I need to transcribe all 12h at once?
No. Schedule per module: Module 1 (1.5h) via weaverclip_schedule_transcribe, get 30 moments, make 5 clips, ship, repeat. The metrics strip shows Storage/Transcript/Renders live so you see remaining before you pick the next module. Over 8 modules, that's 12h vs 1.5h × 8 = same, but you never block on 12h of transcription at once.
Can students search the transcript?
You can. Search 'pricing' in 300ms, get 6 hits with timecodes, share the gallery link (Free 3 total 30d, paid 180d). Students watch the 45s clip, not the 12h. Or download full VTT and host it alongside the video for searchable captions.
Which preset for teaching?
Space (sky, wide tracking) for interviews/essays — airy, modern. Story (blush) for podcasts, Clean for tech. Gaming → Impact (yellow). For a course, Space at scale 100%, baseline 0.74 is readable on phone without eye strain. Try the Safe-Zone Previewer to see webcam/chat/caption zones before you record 6h.
What about 4K for courses?
4K 25 Mbps is 11.25 GB/h, so 12h is 135 GB — needs Pro 150 GB. At 6 Mbps (1080p30, slides) it's 32.4 GB, fits Creator 75 GB with headroom. The vault table on /pricing lets you translate before you record.
Try it with the video you already have.
Free holds a full 2–3h webinar at 6 Mbps for 30 days. Upload the whole thing, download the SRT, make clips later — no re-transcribe. Every plan shows the numbers before you pay.