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Video to blog post

Turn your tutorial video into a written guide people can follow step by step.

  1. 1Add your recording
  2. 2Edit the tutorial
  3. 3Download

Add your recording or transcript

Your recording stays on this device. The first run downloads a speech model and may take a few minutes.

Recording language

To write the tutorial, the transcript text is sent to an AI service. Your recording is not uploaded.

How to turn a video into a blog post

  1. Add your recording

    Choose the video, or paste a timestamped transcript or open an SRT or VTT file. A recording is transcribed on your device.

  2. Write the tutorial

    Press Write tutorial. AI reads the transcript and writes a title, steps, troubleshooting and a short ending, usually in 10 to 30 seconds.

  3. Check and add screenshots

    Fix any step marked for checking, then take a screenshot for each step from your recording at the moment it was said.

  4. Download

    Download a zip with the article as Markdown and the screenshots, or copy the Markdown into your blog or docs.

What the tutorial contains

The tool turns a recorded walkthrough into the article a reader follows instead of watching: a title, a short introduction, what to have ready before starting, numbered steps in the order you did them, the problems you mention with their fixes, and a closing line. Each step is written as an instruction to the reader, such as “Click Export and choose PDF”, not as a description of the video.

Every step keeps the time in the video where you said it. Press the time to play that moment in your recording, check the wording against what is on screen, and edit any heading or sentence on the page. Add, remove or reorder the text as you like before you download. Greetings, sponsor messages and requests to subscribe are left out.

Why some steps are marked for checking

A tutorial is only useful if every step is right, so the tool never presents a guess as something your video said. For each step, the AI must point to the transcript line where you said it and copy your words. The tool then looks for those words in your transcript. If they are there, the step gets that moment’s time. If they are not, the step is marked “Not found in the transcript” and has no time.

Some actions happen only on screen: you click a button while saying “now this one here”. The AI is told not to guess the label. It writes the step in general words and marks it “Only shown on screen”, so you can watch that moment and add the real name. A notice at the top counts the steps left to check, and the marks stay in the Markdown until you tick them, so a guess is still labelled if you share the draft.

Screenshots from your own recording

Once your recording is added, each step offers a screenshot at the time it was said. Press it and the tool takes that frame from the video on your device. If the moment is a little early or late, play or scrub the video to the right frame, pause, and press Use paused frame. You choose every image. Nothing is captured until you ask, and you can remove any screenshot.

Screenshots are saved as JPEG, up to 1920 pixels wide, and named by step number, such as step-03.jpg, so a title with odd characters can never produce a broken file name. If you started from a transcript, add the recording after the tutorial is written. Screenshots live only in this browser tab, so download before you close it.

Markdown export for blogs and docs

Download .zip gives you tutorial.md and an images folder. The Markdown uses plain headings, numbered steps and standard image links, so it works in WordPress, Ghost, Notion, GitHub, Docusaurus and most static site generators. Copy Markdown copies the text alone. Each step ends with its time in the video. Paste your YouTube link under Link timestamps to YouTube and each time becomes a link that opens the video at that moment.

Before you publish, read the article once with the software open. Check names of buttons and menus, and add anything you showed but did not say. A written guide is also a good place to add the exact values, links and code that are hard to read in a video.

Other ways to write up a video

You can write the guide by hand while replaying the video, pausing at each step to type it out and take a screenshot. It is slower, but you see every frame; the extract frames tool saves any frame as a full-size image for those screenshots. If you only need the words, the video to text converter gives you a full transcript to edit. A general AI chat assistant can also turn a transcript into an article, but it will not tie steps to times, mark guesses or take screenshots from your video.

For a YouTube upload, the same transcript can make your chapters and description. For planning the next recording, read how to make a tutorial video. To choose between a recorded walkthrough and a click-by-click guide from Scribe or Tango, see Rescreen vs Scribe.

Limits

The tool works on recordings up to two hours long, with up to 120,000 characters of transcript. Long videos are split into parts that are written at the same time and joined, so steps near the end are kept. It is free with a limit of 10 tutorials an hour from one connection, and a daily limit across all visitors, so it can be busy at times. If it cannot finish, your transcript stays on the page and you can try again.

It works in current versions of Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox on a computer. Transcribing a recording on your device works best in Chrome or Edge; in other browsers, paste a transcript or open a subtitle file. Screenshots need a video your browser can play. It cannot read a YouTube link or publish to your blog.

Frequently asked questions

Is the video to blog tool free?

Yes, and you don’t need an account. One connection can write up to 10 tutorials an hour, and there is a daily limit across all visitors.

What kind of video works best?

A recording where you talk through a task on screen: a software how-to, a setup guide or a feature walkthrough. The more you name what you click, the fewer steps need checking. Vlogs, music and interviews have no steps to write up.

Can I use a YouTube link?

Not to read the video. Use your own recording, a subtitle file or a pasted timestamped transcript. You can add your YouTube link after the tutorial is written, so the times in the article link to the video.

Will it make up steps?

It is told to use only what you said and to describe on-screen actions in general words. Any step whose words cannot be found in your transcript, or that was only shown on screen, is marked for you to check against the video.

What happens to my recording and transcript?

Your recording never leaves your device: speech recognition and screenshots happen in the browser. When you press Write tutorial, only the transcript’s text and times are sent to Rescreen, which passes them to an AI provider (Anthropic, or Google if Anthropic is unavailable) under its API terms and returns the tutorial. Rescreen does not store the transcript or the tutorial, and keeps neither in its logs. Your edits stay in this browser tab until you close it.

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