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Interactive video with searchable transcripts

Cinema8 makes your videos more accessible, searchable, and engaging with interactive subtitle-driven transcripts. Viewers can read along, search within the text, or click lines to jump to key sections. Video transcripts improve accessibility, support discoverability, and enhance learning outcomes. Combined with interactive features like quizzes and CTAs, your videos become more inclusive and results-driven.

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Cinema8 Customer - UCLA
Cinema8 Customer - Mississippi State University
Cinema8 Customer - Linnaeus University
Cinema8 Customer - Gulbenkian Science
Cinema8 Customer - Eastern Michigan University
Cinema8 Customer - Leica
Cinema8 Customer - Siemens
Cinema8 Customer - Twin
Cinema8 Customer - BAU
Cinema8 Customer - Brim
Cinema8 Customer - Ceinsa
Cinema8 Customer - Diverse Voice
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Cinema8 Customer - Hill and Knowton
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Cinema8’s interactive video platform integrates transcripts directly into your videos, making them more accessible, engaging, and discoverable. Upload your content into a secure library, then enable subtitle-driven transcripts so viewers can follow along, search within the text, or click interactive elements to navigate instantly to specific video moments. Combined with Cinema8’s interactive features like CTAs or lead gen forms, transcripts help you deliver inclusive and measurable video experiences.

Add transcripts to your videos

How to use transcripts in your interactive videos

Make videos more accessible and discoverable by adding transcripts that viewers can read, search, and click through.

Step 1

Upload your video to Cinema8 via the dashboard, bulk import, or API, then store it securely in your video library.

Step 2

Enable transcription for your video, allowing viewers to read along and understand the content, or jump directly to key sections.

Step 3

Combine transcripts with Cinema8’s interactive features such as CTAs or hotspots and track performance with built-in analytics.

Why use Cinema8 for video transcripts?

Cinema8’sAI-driven subtitle transcripts make your videos more inclusive, searchable, and impactful. By displaying spoken content as text, you improve accessibility for global audiences and users with hearing impairments. Transcripts also give viewers more control as they can read along, search within the text, or jump directly to key sections. Combined with Cinema8’s interactive video features, this creates a smoother learning and viewing experience, while analytics reveal how audiences engage with both text and video.

How Cinema8 transcripts improve interactive videos

Subtitle-driven transcripts improve video clarity

Interactive transcripts let viewers jump to sections

Improved accessibility for diverse global audiences

Accessible training and compliance content

Use transcripts in training and compliance videos to support employees with different learning needs. Staff can read along, search within the text for clarity, and revisit sections instantly, ensuring important policies and lessons are fully understood.

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Engaging marketing videos

Add transcripts to marketing videos to keep audiences engaged and give them more control over how they watch. Viewers can read along, revisit specific sections, or quickly scan key messages, making campaigns clearer and easier to absorb.

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E-learning and global education resources

Enable transcripts for e-learning videos to support multilingual audiences and learners who prefer reading alongside viewing. Interactive transcripts allow students to click sections for review, reinforcing understanding and improving retention in both live and recorded courses.

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During travel restrictions, Cinema8 proved valuable as a tool. Its platform offered straightforward yet complete tools, allowing us to give virtual demonstrations of our solutions in a secure and efficient way.

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Art Director, Marketing and E-Commerce / Leica Geosystems

Cinema8 software engaged and motivated students with 360-degree videos at the Tate Gallery, featuring past student projects. Staff support was responsive and helpful with training. A valuable tool for educational institutions.

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Unit Lead Lecturer LCCA / London College of Contemporary Arts

Cinema8 has been instrumental in compiling all of the videos for a research project on employment for the blind or visually impaired, by offering an easy-to-use web-based platform for building Interactive Videos.

Sarah Moody

Communications Coordinator / Mississippi State University

Cinema8 was chosen for its ease of use and ability to create interactive videos through an intuitive interface. The team received great support and reasonable pricing. leading to a renewal of their partnership. Cinema8's support helped them meet project deadlines.

Michel Sohel

Media Consultant / Eastern Michigan University

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Transcripts provide a written version of spoken content, making videos accessible to viewers with hearing impairments or those who prefer reading. They also support non-native speakers by allowing audiences to follow along more easily. With Cinema8, transcripts display seamlessly alongside videos, ensuring everyone can engage with your content.
Transcripts can make your video content easier to navigate and understand by displaying spoken words as text. Viewers are able to read along, revisit key sections, or quickly scan for information, which encourages longer engagement with your content. This can indirectly improve your video’s visibility as you may target new audiences.
Cinema8 offers interactive transcripts, allowing viewers to click specific lines of text and jump directly to that moment in the video. This makes navigation simple, improves user control, and encourages audiences to re-watch or review key sections, boosting engagement and learning outcomes.
Transcripts are especially valuable in training and education, where learners may want to review specific topics or search for terms quickly. By reading alongside the video, employees or students can better retain information. Cinema8 also tracks how transcripts are used, giving organisations insight into learner behaviour.
Cinema8 supports multi-language transcripts and AI-generated subtitles, allowing you to deliver the same video to global audiences with translated text. This improves accessibility across different regions and enhances learning, marketing, or communication strategies. Multi-language transcripts also help your videos reach broader audiences while maintaining clarity and inclusivity.