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Many of our customers need to export transcripts in a structured format, with separate columns for “In” and “Out” points and speaker names. This is particularly useful for captions, especially for broadcast. One common workflow is to export an Excel spreadsheet, where each line effectively becomes a record. For example: InqScribe’s free-form edit field provides…
We often hear from users working with video that has a running timecode burned in to the video image. The most common issue is that the on-screen running timecode doesn’t match up with InqScribe’s default [00.00.00:00] starting point. You can easily resolve this by running a timecode adjustment. However, you may also have a gap…
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…
Problem: You want to insert time stamps in your transcript at regular intervals without having to explicitly insert a timecode. Solution 1: The easiest way to do this is to define a shortcut for your Enter key. Here’s how: 1. Open your transcript in InqScribe 2. Select the “Edit” menu->”Edit Snippets…” 3. Click the “Add”…
New in version 2.1 of InqScribe: You can insert timecode series, e.g. “lay down a timecode every 30 seconds,” like this: [00:00:00.00] [00:00:30.00] [00:01:00.00] [00:01:30.00] [00:02:00.00] [00:02:30.00] This is typically used by transcriptionists who need to sync text with the video every n seconds. So you start with an empty transcript, insert the timecodes, then…
I don’t want the frame number to appear in my timecode. I want [hh:mm:ss], not [hh:mm:ss:ff]. Can I turn it off? For example, I don’t want my timecode to look like this: [00:01:23.29] Instead, I want to remove the last two numbers so it looks like this: [00:01:23] — To remove the frames from your…
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,…
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…