Software updates, tips, and user stories
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,…
We were recently contacted by a stenographer who wanted to use InqScribe with a stenotype machine for video and audio transcription. In theory this should be easy, right? A stenotype is just another input device, like a foot pedal. But in practice, there are a few challenges. Here’s our current understanding of how InqScribe and…
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…
Perian 1.2 is out, and highly recommended for users of InqScribe on MacOS. A free, open-source QuickTime component, Perian gives QuickTime– and thus InqScribe– access to many popular media formats, including Flash video (.flv), DivX, 3ivx, and many others. Alas, there is no comparable tool for Windows.
Update: this bug is fixed in the 2.1 beta. Get the beta here. If you’re using Final Cut Pro 7 and importing InqScribe-generated FCP XML files, you’re probably pulling your hair out. As of FCP7, any imported subtitles beyond the two minute mark show up with a duration of only one frame. The problem is…
InqScribe is now on Twitter. We think this will be a great way to share quick tips and information about using InqScribe and related media tools. You can track our tweets on the sidebar of this blog, or follow InqScribe on Twitter.