CasualTranscriber is a utility program to assist transcription of audio/video text. It can handle most of the file types QuickTime can handle.
This program hasn't been fully tested. If you use this and find any bugs/weirdness, please let me know. System Requirement: Any Mac with Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or later The current version of CasualTranscriber is 0.9.6. I decided to release a preview (alpha) of the new version. System Requirement: 64-bit Mac (Core 2 Duo or later) with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion or later and you need to have QuickTime Player 7 installed to add and view subtitles. Last updated: 2012/5/04 This alpha version may be unstable and does not have all the features of the current version. No documentation is ready, but basic functions are similar to the current version. Any feedback is welcome. Please send email to the account listed on the Contact Me! page (see the left column) or post a comment on the blog. This page shows you the basic functions of CasualTranscriber. For more advanced features and Preferences settings, check these pages.
How to start
ControllerPlayerYou can use the controller of the QuickTime player on the window, slightly larger buttons are also available. The timer is an approximation as there is no direct way to get the time from the clip to display. There is up to 0.1 second error.
Those are as you can see basic buttons. Shortcut is assigned to each button.![]() Shortcuts
Current Time is also shown with the control buttons. Speed AdjustmentYou can adjust speed of the movie/audio. Simply move the slider with your mouse. You can reset the slider to 1.0 by clicking Reset button.Speed can by adjusted from the Menu -> Movie and with shortcuts. Shortcuts
Skip (Rewind/Forward)You can easily rewind/forward the movie/audio by the number of second that appears on the button.You can change the assigned time (in seconds) in Preferences. Short cuts are also assigned to these buttons. Shortcuts (numbers in parentheses are defaults in seconds)
Time ControlInsert
You can easily add time stamps to the text. To add a single time stamp, simply click Insert button. The time stamp is clickable. If you click it, the player's current position moves to the time. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Insert | Command + Shift + Y |
| Select |
Command + Shift + U |
Select All
You can the entire clip by clicking Select All button.Unselect
You can unselect a selected part of the clip by clicking Unselect button.Movie Information
Duration
Time Scale
This sets the smallest time segment (600 is 1/600 of a second). 600 is default simply because it can be divided by common frame rates (24/30). If you want to change the appearance of time stamps, you might want to change this. But if you make this too small, time stamps will be less accurate (if you use Insert). If you know your movie clip is encoded at a specific time frame, you might want to use it.Editor
Editor part is very simple and similar to what you can find in any Cocoa-based text editors such as TextEdit.Format
You can also set some attributes from Menu.
You can also use Context Menu.
A familiar Find Panel appears and you can use the same functions you are used to (if you use Apple applications).
You can also use Context Menu.
Find Panel
You can use a OS X standard Find Panel by Menu -> Edit -> Find -> Find (Command + F).A familiar Find Panel appears and you can use the same functions you are used to (if you use Apple applications).
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