Software updates, tips, and user stories
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InqScribe has many different kinds of users. But the majority of our users can be categorized into three groups: university researchers, professional transcriptionists, and documentary filmmakers. To highlight how our folks are using the tool, we would like to do an occasional feature where we invite our users to be guest bloggers. Here’s our first…
You can insert the current time of day into your transcript. This is useful for instance, if you want to take notes while you are recording during a meeting or video shoot. Later when you import the media, you can sync the start time to your video. For example, let’s say you’re shooting an interview,…
If you have text that you are repeatedly typing in your transcript (e.g. analysis codes, or long words), you can create snippets to insert them quickly. Here are some tips: You don’t have to assign a trigger/keyboard shortcut to snippet You can activate the trigger window with <cmd-1> (Mac) or <ctrl-1> (Windows) When the trigger…
While we do have a new version of InqScribe expected soon, the current version, 2.0.5, works fine with the new Snow Leopard Mac OS (10.6). In general, if you do have problems with InqScribe, please report it to us using the InqScribe Help menu’s “Report a Bug…” feature. This provides us with a little more…
I have an existing InqScribe transcript that uses bracketed timecodes: [00:01:23.29] I want to use unbracketed timecodes: 00:01:23.29 — Here’s how you can do the conversion: 1. Open the existing transcript in InqScribe. 2. Select “Transcript->Transcript Settings…” from the menu bar. 3. Under the “Inserted Timecode Format:” select “00:01:23.29” from the popup menu. 4. Check…
InqScribe currently does not support bold text. However, you can use Microsoft Word’s “Find and Replace” feature to bold text. Here’s how you can do that: 1. Export your transcript to Microsoft Word. (You can just cut and paste.) 2. Select “Edit->Replace…”. 3. Click on the triangle next to the “Replace All” button to reveal…