Turn shoot-day audio into story-ready hot sheets.

Yes. Once you're done shooting a scene or wrapped for the day, the audio files head to your DIT or media manager like normal for transfer. From there, the Hotsheetz app runs on that same computer, where transcription happens locally — without ever needing an internet connection. Your files never hit our servers for any reason, because they don't need to.

No, not at all. If you can wrangle cast after a dinner party, you can use Hotsheetz. Our step-by-step guides walk you through show setup, the desktop app, and your first shoot day.

No, never. To protect your intellectual property, your data is never used to refine our system or process.

We don't think so, no. This tool was designed by people who have lived the unscripted storytelling process and know its pain points firsthand. The story team gets to skip logging every line of on-camera dialog — freeing up valuable people to advance another scene, prep cast, or, you know, not work a 15-hour day.

Once audio files are delivered to the DIT, you can expect an accurate transcript and a draft hot sheet in Story Hub in as little as an hour, depending on how many crews were shooting that day. Speed up your workflow even further by adding a media handoff at lunch.

Speaker-labeled, timecoded transcripts and draft hot sheets land in Story Hub automatically after processing. Your team layers in notes to finalize, then exports transcripts and hot sheets as PDFs to share with anyone who needs them.

The key players are the producers and the audio department, with the DIT handling the handoff. The biggest beneficiaries are the story team and the post production supervisor.