Software updates, tips, and user stories
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InqScribe Version 2.5 for macOS is now available! This new Mac version is a free upgrade for all currently licensed users. Just download and install the new version and it should automatically use your current license. Download the release here. Version 2.5 has a host of new features, including: Modernization InqScribe 2.5 is a native 64-bit…
A new version of our InqScribe 2.5 beta is now available for macOS. As you may already know, version 2.5 is an upcoming update that brings a new HD interface, an improved media engine, and full macOS Catalina/Big Sur support. Both this public beta and the soon-to-come official release will be free to current InqScribe…
An occasional series where we share interesting stories about InqScribe from our users. If you have a story you’d like to share, contact us! Professor Nsir Malik (ret.), a founding member of Pakistan Television, media professional, and currently retired teacher has been using InqScribe to do charity work with media students in Pakistan. Some…
Part of the fun of interacting with our customers is finding out what they’re working on. Filmmaker Matthew Bowyer is working on a documentary about real life James Bonds…though perhaps not what you think: by Matthew Bowyer ‘The Other Fellow’ is a documentary about the lives of real men around the world – who are named…
Finding the right workflow for a project can be a challenge, especially when you have multiple languages, multiple tools, and multiple collaborators in the mix. In our latest guest blog, Chad Braham, an editor and Director of Media Production at WORDonCancer.org describes in very helpful detail how they’ve developed a translation workflow that starts in…
We’ve just released a minor update to InqScribe: version 2.1.1. This is a free upgrade for all users. Download the update here. Primarily, the update improves the behavior of timecode-specific fields (such as the Start Time field) to better match Final Cut Pro’s behavior. In addition, InqScribe will now automatically download updates for you. Also,…
One of our customers, a professor at a film school, suggested this tip: For those of you used to using industry standard editting software like Final Cut and Avid, you can map “j”, “k”, and “l” with modifier keys to back/pause/forward. Since you need the j/k/l keys for actually inputting text during transcription, you’ll need…
We’re proud to be sponsors of charity: water. InqScribe’s ability to support transcriptions and subtitles in multiple languages make it ideally suited for work in the field, especially for organizations such as charity: water that rely on story telling. Here’s how they describe their work: — In 2006, we followed women in Ethiopia to a…
Filmmakers like InqScribe for a multitude of reasons. In this latest guest blog, part of our ongoing series highlighting how folks use InqScribe, Bongiorno Productions, an award-winning filmmaking duo, talk about how they’re using it with their latest project. Got an interesting story about how you’re using InqScribe? Please contact us at info@inquirium.net if you’d like…
InqScribe’s free-form text editing is intended to support a wide variety of tasks. So while we often talk of “transcribing” video, in practice oftentimes it’s more efficient to simply take notes. I was reminded of this in recent conversation with one of our customers at a cable tv network: sometimes all you want to do…