Adding an episode
Links, uploads, your own captions, and the limits checked before you are charged.
Two ways in
- An upload. MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV, MKV or WebM, up to 10 GB. Bytes go straight to storage — they never pass through the app server.
- Your own captions. A WebVTT file with inline word timestamps, or
a YouTube
.json3track. This skips transcription entirely, which is the single largest cost in the pipeline.
To clip new episodes automatically, point Autopilot at the Google Drive folder where your finished episodes are saved.
.srt will not work.
Every word needs its own timing. SRT gives timings per cue, not per word, and word timings are what the boundary snapping, the active-word captions and the caption editor all read. Upload a VTT with inline timestamps, or leave it blank and let us transcribe.
The limit is checked before you are charged
A source longer than your plan allows, or an account without the credits to cover it, is refused before any job row exists — so an over-length upload costs you nothing and leaves nothing behind to clean up. The check runs twice: once on the metadata before queueing, and once on the authoritative probe when the worker picks it up.
What happens next
An episode moves through ingest → transcribe →
understand → analyze. The episode page streams progress as it
goes, so you can watch a stage finish rather than refreshing. Candidates appear when
analyze completes.