Tip: How do I remove frames from timecodes?

I don’t want the frame number to appear in my time code. I want [hh:mm:ss], not [hh:mm:ss:ff]. Can I turn it off?

For example, I don’t want my time code to look like this: [00:01:23.29]
Instead, I want to remove the last two numbers so it looks like this: [00:01:23]

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To remove the frames from your currently open transcript:

1. Open the existing transcript in InqScribe.

2. Select “Transcript->Transcript Settings…” from the menu bar.

3. Under the “Inserted Time Code Format:” section, check the “Omit Frames” checkbox.

4. Click “OK” to close the window.

This will tell InqScribe not to use frames in the future for this particular transcript (Frames will still be used by default for any new transcripts that you create.  See the next section to turn off frames for all future transcripts). Next we need to remove the frames from your existing time codes.

5. Select “Transcript->Adjust Time Codes…” from the menu bar.

6. Leave the “Adjustment:” field at “00:00:00″, and click “Adjust.”  This will reformat all of your time codes to remove the frame number.

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To change ALL of your future transcripts to omit frames by default…

(You can always enable frames on a per transcript basis. This will just disable them by default for any new transcript you create.)

…On a Mac:

1. Select “InqScribe->Preferences…” from the menu bar.

2. Click on the “New Document” tab at the top of the “InqScribe Preferences” window.

3. Under the “Inserted Time Code Format:” section, check the “Omit Frames” checkbox.

…On Windows:

1. Select “Edit->Options…” from the menu bar.

2. Click on the “New Document” tab at the top of the “InqScribe Preferences” window.

3. Under the “Inserted Time Code Format:” section, check the “Omit Frames” checkbox.

Why the evaluation license window is shrinking

If you’ve requested an evaluation license for InqScribe recently, you may have noticed that we’re handing out licenses that expire January 1. That’s about three weeks away. Normally we give you guys licenses that are good for about 5-6 weeks.

There’s a reason for this: the set of evaluation licenses for InqScribe 2.0 are running out. We plan to release InqScribe 2.1 very soon, and once it’s out the 5-6 week evaluation license window will return.

We encourage everyone to request a new evaluation license for InqScribe 2.1, even if you’ve already asked for one for InqScribe 2.0. And version 2.1 will be a free update for all of our registered users.

Happy Holidays!

Modern Advertising Antics

I was tweaking our google adwords account for InqScribe when I came upon this site: transcriptionsoftwareformymac.com/.

And I thought “Cool! A review of InqScribe!”  The review was lukewarm, although they did raise some valid points. I wanted to clarify a few things so I started to look for someone to contact.

But there was no contact information. Hmm… that’s strange, usually someone writing a review normally wants to take credit for their work. Why are there no names?

So I did a little more poking around. transcriptionsoftwareformymac.com is registered to a Joshua Nozzi, and its domain servers use bartastechnologies.com.

Transcriva, of course, is an InqScribe competitor, and is a product of bartastechnologies.com, which is run by one Joshua Nozzi.

We’re happy to compare InqScribe on its merits against other transcription solutions. If Joshua wants to make those comparisons, that’s fine. But he ought to be willing to stand behind his work and not try to pass it off as a neutral review.

I should also point out that this raises significant doubts about the validity of that little “poll” Joshua is running on the blog.

As Phil Harvey used to say, now you know… the rest of the story.