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Jessica Paxton recently started her own transcription business. In this guest feature, Jessica discusses how she came to InqScribe, and why it works well for her line of work. By: Jessica Paxton, Independent Transcriber When I first branched out working for myself in the transcription business, I had no idea where to start; I had…
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The Dalit Women Fight crew uses InqScribe to translate footage for their feature-length documentary. Read about their work, and how InqScribe helps them cross language barriers. By: Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Director of Dalit Women Fight #Dalitwomenfight! Dalit Women Fight is a transmedia documentary that looks at the issue behind the rape epidemic in India: caste-based sexual violence.…
There are quite a few ways to creates subtitles in InqScribe (check out a list of them here). Using the built-in “Save Subtitled QuickTime Movie” option is probably the quickest and easiest, but if you or your colleagues don’t have access to QuickTime 7, sharing the exported video file can be a problem. If you’d…
4/01/2015 UPDATE: inqscribe.com is now back online! — inqscribe.com is offline due to an upstream issue with our service provider. Until service is restored, feel free to direct any questions about InqScribe to support@inqscribe.com. Note that our support page is still accessible here. If you’d like to request a 14-day trial license of InqScribe, just shoot…
UPDATE: We’ve just been informed that website maintenance for inqscribe.com has been pushed back to March 31, 2015 between 04:00 and 13:00 UTC. That’s midnight to 9am tonight EDT. The site inqscribe.com will be inaccessible for 60 to 90 minutes. — On Monday March 30th, 2015 inqscribe.com will undergo some routine maintenance between 04:00 and 13:00 UTC.…
If you work at all with digital video, you’re bound to run into issues of media compatibility. What makes a video incompatible? Will it work in InqScribe? It’s a complicated subject. In this post, we’ll explain a few key terms that should help you understand how digital video works (and sometimes, how it doesn’t work). Codec…
As you may or may not have noticed, Facebook has been making some improvements to its video feature. Part of this campaign includes newly added support for caption/subtitle display. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Can I use InqScribe to add subtitles to my Facebook video?” The answer: yes, yes you can. The following process…
Sometimes you go to transcribe your video in InqScribe only to find that InqScribe won’t play that video type. InqScribe relies on the QuickTime 7 or Windows Media Player 11 specs for media playback, and is able to play most anything that can be played in those players. But if your media is not supported…
You can easily create Subtitled QuickTime Movies directly in InqScribe, and in general we recommend using QuickTime with InqScribe. However, there is another method to play a subtitled movie by combining your video with an exported subtitle track in Windows Media Player. How you ask? Windows Media Player doesn’t natively support subtitle importation, so we’ll be using…
Update: In addition to using Dragon as described below, you can now use Apple’s Dictation feature with the InqScribe 2.5 Beta. More information here (sorry, macOS only!). — When we’re asked about speech recognition software, it’s often from new users hoping to automate their transcription process. Although InqScribe doesn’t include any speech recognition technology, you can…