Year: 2011

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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: 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 begin transcription. You can insert time…

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…