Add a Timing Anchor Via Your Transcript

You can insert a timing anchor in the transcript before you upload it to SyncWords, giving you even more control and precision.

• An Exact Anchor dictates the the exact timing of a word. For example,
                  {9:08.1}> POW!
  will cause the start time of the word POW to be synced at exactly 9 minutes and 8.1 seconds.
  
  
• A Fuzzy Anchor constrains the timing of a word to an approximate point in time.
                   Thank you,<100{543.3} Martha.
  will cause the end time of the word you to be synced approximately at 543.3 seconds (i.e., 9 minutes and 3.3 seconds), plus/minus a few seconds, as appropriate.

An anchor can be placed at any point in the transcript next to or between words. It affects the next spoken word it points to, ignoring any cues, speaker labels, or space in-between. A word can even have two anchors pointing at it from either side, like so: This<{0.1} {0.11}>sentence <{0.23}{0.25}>is heavily {0.39}>constrained<-{1}. If more than two anchors point to the same side of the same word, only the closest one is considered. Nonsensical anchors typically don't cause errors, but they may produce bad results.

You will be able to see these anchors and their effects on individual words in the Review Tool. But keep in mind that the timing of an output caption is determined by a number of factors, primarily the timing of the first and last words and the output settings.