Local AI and transcription

#What runs where

#Set up Local AI

• After sign-in and workspace setup, the app offers Local AI. Choose Download Local AI or Set up later; editing and imports work either way.
• The optional download is about 944 MB, with progress, cancel and retry. Completed files are reused.
• Come back to it any time with Local AI at the top of the Media tab.
• With Prepare new footage automatically on and Local AI downloaded, small imports (up to 10 visual files, 500 MB and five minutes) are prepared in the background. Larger batches ask first.
• Pause imports or analysis from Project media. Unfinished jobs wait for Resume when you reopen a project.

#Transcription

• Transcribe from the Media library or the Transcript tab. Formats sends the clip audio to its hosted speech service and returns an editable transcript with word-level timing.
• It supports 90+ languages. Choose the audio language, then whether captions keep the original script, keep English words, use Latin letters or translate to English.
• The transcript is saved with the project in your workspace and powers captions, search and filler-word removal.

#Manage the download

• Open Local AI in the Media tab to see whether the models are downloaded, and to download, resume or retry.
• Cancel download keeps the files already fetched, so the next attempt picks up where it stopped. You can keep editing while it runs.
• If your Mac cannot run Local AI, the dialog says so; Check device looks again. Keyword search over file names and transcripts still works.