Reduct

Interview-heavy teams

Reduct pioneered the edit-by-transcript model for serious interview work — highlight a paragraph, hit delete, the video matches. At $75 per seat per month it's squarely a team tool, which is why their case studies are journalism, legal, and research outfits. For a solo podcaster, Descript does the same trick at $24/mo and you should buy that instead.

Reduct is built around a single useful trick: if you have a transcript, you can edit the video by editing the text. Highlight a paragraph in the transcript, delete it, the corresponding video disappears. The interface is essentially a transcript pasted next to a timeline, and for interview-heavy work — journalism, qualitative research, legal discovery, customer-interview content — it's genuinely faster than scrubbing a waveform. AI transcription hits roughly 94% on clean English audio. For an extra $0.50 per minute you can upgrade to human transcription at 99-plus percent, which matters if you're shipping for ad networks or sensitive content. Captions can be burned in with several preset styles or exported as SRT. Pricing starts at $75 per editor per month on seat-based plans, with each editor adding 300 hours of shared transcription per year — so a team of five gets 1,500 hours pooled annually. Overage is $0.25 per minute uploaded. Project-based, utilization-based, and unlimited plans exist for larger teams, and there are non-profit and education discounts. The search-across-all-transcripts feature is its quiet superpower; if you've ever needed to find that one quote across 30 episodes, Reduct surfaces it in seconds. The honest fit problem is solo creators — Descript at $24/mo does the same edit-by-transcript move for one person, and the caption styling depth is thinner than dedicated tools like CapCut or Submagic. Worth it for teams cutting interviews regularly; skip if you're working alone.