Software updates, tips, and user stories
If you’re using a corded Microsoft Digital Media keyboard or some multimedia keyboards from other manufacturers (we know of one case from Acer), you might be experiencing odd crashes when you try to run the “Set Up Foot Pedal” wizard or define shortcuts triggers. (This tip is also helpful for others who might be experiencing…
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…
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…
One of the features that we really wanted to get into version 2.1 is support for using foot pedals (and other USB input devices) to control media playback while InqScribe is in the background. This would let users stay in their favorite application like Word or FileMaker, but still be able to control media playback…
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…
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…
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…