# Freelance transcription style guide cheatsheet for GoTranscript, Scribie, and custom PDF briefs

Every marketplace ships a PDF; your job is to remember which client wants contractions kept, which demands bracketed laughter, and which normalises numbers. A cheatsheet is just those rows in one place so you are not re-opening page 27 at 2 a.m.

## Map PDF rows to VideoText presets

Start from the GoTranscript, Scribie, Rev, or TranscribeMe preset inside [Format → Client guidelines](https://videotext.io/guideline-format). Treat each card as a cheatsheet line—contractions, tagging, timestamps, laughter placement, ellipsis usage. When an agency deviates, edit the card, note the override, and keep the export with your invoice.

- **Retention:** some clients want “wanna/gonna” typed exactly; others want them expanded—match the card to the PDF, not habit.
- **Batching:** group similar clients so you load the same preset order each night; fewer context switches means fewer mistakes.

Capture audio with [Video → Transcript](https://videotext.io/video-to-transcript), then open the formatter before you start human polish.

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