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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…
We’ve just released an update to InqScribe: version 2.2. This is a free upgrade for all users. Download the update here. Or, if you’re currently running v2.1.1, select “Check for Updates” and InqScribe’s internal update checker will offer to download the update for you. For Mac users, InqScribe is now a signed app to improve compatibility with OS…
OS X 10.8 was released this week, and we’ve been getting a few questions about whether InqScribe is compatible with it. The short answer is yes. InqScribe runs fine under 10.8. However, the new security model for 10.8 may prevent you from running InqScribe. If you already have InqScribe installed on your computer and you…
UPDATE: As of 7/25/2013 and QuickTime 7.7.4, Apple has still not resolved the issue. Please continue to use QuickTime 7.7.1. BL. A word of warning to InqScribe users: we’ve identified a couple of bugs that impact Windows users’ ability to use InqScribe to generate subtitled movies. We’ve identified two bugs: 1. If you use…
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,…
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…
We have done some testing of InqScribe in Apple’s newly released OS 10.7 “Lion,” and we’re continuing to do more. The good news is that everything seems to work fine in Lion, with one easy-to-address caveat. Here is our partial report: InqScribe launches in Lion and will perform the basics — video playback, timecode insertion, even…
There was a known bug in InqScribe version 2.0.5 (and earlier) that caused problems with Windows Media Player. The crash report mentions things like “WMP_Provider” and “MediaProxy”. This has been fixed in InqScribe version 2.1. Simply upgrade to the latest version of InqScribe and your problem will be solved. The upgrade is free; you can…
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…