Download your video

Either download it from Vimeo or Zoom or use a tool like 4K Video Downloader to download it from YouTube. Zoom Easy Downloader is also super handy for downloading videos hosted on Zoom.

Generate the transcript for your video

Use services like otter.ai, Vimeo, or Deepgram.com to download a transcript of your video. If your video is hosted on Vimeo, you can download the subtitles like this.

Work with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to build course

Work with AI to identify key topics, generate content and reflective prompts, and provide you with time stamps for your video segments.

Prompt 1

You will want to make sure that the transcript itself is formatted such that AI can give you accurate timestamps. One of the biggest challenges can be getting the AI to return good segments. Here is a prompt that can help you do that:

If using a transcript from Deepgram:

[Attach transcript]

The transcript I have provided you is a word-level transcript generated from a video call. It contains an array of words, each with a start, end, and word field, and I want to restructure it into paragraph-level sections. Please group the words into coherent paragraph segments based on pauses of 1.5 seconds or more between words. For each paragraph, return:

The start time of the first word

The end time of the last word

A text field that joins all the words in that segment

Output the result as a JSON array. Each item should be a dictionary with start, end, and text. The format should be such that it is optimized for you to provide me with the most accurate time stamps for the segments identified.

If using a transcript from another service:

[Attach transcript]