# Clean verbatim vs full verbatim for transcription freelancers (examples + payouts)

**Clean verbatim vs full verbatim** is the divider most reviewers cite when rejecting work. Clean keeps meaning-first readability: fillers and obvious stumbles go away unless they matter legally or narratively. Full verbatim traps every audible disfluency—common on legal transcripts, tightly scoped corpora, or client PDFs that spell out “no omission.”

## Signals to resolve before QC

- Filler ladders (“like,” “you know”) — remove or retain?
- False starts that finish later— mirror both or tighten?
- Laughter and environmental tags— newline, brackets, timestamps?
- Digits spelled out vs normalized numerals.

## Preset cards in VideoText

The marketplace presets inside [Format → Client guidelines](https://videotext.io/guideline-format) summarise how each vendor typically treats those bullets. Edit the cards when your PDF contradicts defaults; the Edited badges show exactly what drifted—handy during disputes.

Read the Rev playbook next: [Rev-style preset workflow →](https://videotext.io/blog/rev-style-guide-transcript-formatter) · QA glossary: [what transcript QA covers →](https://videotext.io/blog/what-is-transcript-qa).

[Format your transcript to a client style guide →](https://videotext.io/guideline-format)