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InqScribe’s ability to export transcripts to Final Cut Pro has made it particularly useful for documentary filmmakers working in multiple languages. In this latest guest blog, part of our ongoing series highlighting how folks use InqScribe, Carlos Sandoval, an award-winning filmmaker, talks about how they’re using it with their latest project. Got an interesting story…
A part of our occasional series highlighting interesting uses of InqScribe In addition to transcriptionists and documentary filmmakers, researchers make up a large portion of InqScribe users. Although, in this case, we hit two of our favorite topics simultaneously: research and education. Alex Gilmore, a professor at the University of Tokyo, just published a book…
We just love it when InqScribe is put to use for a worthy cause. As part of our ongoing series that highlights how our folks are using the tool, we’ve invited Kitty Farmer of Watersong Productions to tell us about her advocacy work for Native Americans, and how InqScribe helped streamline her workflow. Got an…
We have a fair number of users in the Deaf community who use InqScribe to transcribe and subtitle videos. Stacy Bick of Rochtester Institute of Technology has put together a really nice series of videos to introduce subtitling with InqScribe for the Deaf community. Actually it’s a pretty complete set of video tutorials that anyone…
Happy New Year! We just released version 2.1 of InqScribe! InqScribe can now insert timecode series, e.g. “lay down a timecode every 30 seconds” Improved support for Final Cut Pro users. Improved handling of backups and file recovery. And of course, a few bug fixes. Read the release notes for more details. InqScribe 2.1 is…
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…
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…
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…
InqScribe is so easy to use, who needs tutorials, right? Well, a little background can’t hurt, so we created four new introductory video tutorials that provide (1) a basic overview of InqScribe, (2) an introduction to shortcuts and snippets, (3) tips on using timecodes, and (4) an introduction to subtitling. They’re all a part of our…
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,…