Bookmark Lines To Find Them Fast

You can now bookmark any line in a transcript and jump straight back to it, so the best moments in a long recording never get buried again.

What it is

Bookmarks are a simple marker you put on a line while you're working in the Arrange screen. Select a line, press B, and it's flagged as one to come back to. No notes to write, no folders to build. Just a quick mark on the spot that matters.

The problem it removes

Long recordings hide their best lines in the middle of a lot of ordinary ones. A great quote from a podcast host, a sharp answer in a panel discussion, a funny aside in a vlog: you spot it the first time through, then lose it again scrolling back and forth. Bookmarks stop that. You mark it once and you can find it again without re-reading everything around it.

How it works in practice

Say you're cutting down a two-hour interview for a documentary. As you read through the transcript, you bookmark every line that could work as a pull quote or a strong opener. By the time you reach the end, you have a trail of marked lines across the whole recording. You can move straight to arranging your story using just those, instead of scanning the full transcript again.

Bookmarks are separate from notes. A note travels with a moment and turns into a marker in your exported timeline, with room for replies from a client. A bookmark is just for you: it marks your place so you can jump back to it while you work.

Who it helps most

Anyone working through a long unscripted recording benefits: a podcast editor pulling highlight clips, a documentary editor tracking key moments across hours of footage, an agency editor marking client-approved lines during review, or a marketer scanning UGC for the one line that will work as a social hook.

Try it on your next long transcript in ScriptCut.