InqScribe: Specifications

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Many Uses

InqScribe's flexibility makes it ideal for a wide variety of applications. Some InqScribe users include:

Video post-production houses creating subtitles
Independent film makers logging footage and creating dialogue lists
Theatre lighting designers inserting time codes to control cues
Professional transcriptionists
Teachers reflecting on video of their teaching
Social scientists analyzing video of ethnographic data
Educational researchers analyzing video of teachers and classrooms

Who We Are

InqScribe is brought to you by Inquirium, LLC. We design innovative educational software.

Technical Specifications

InqScribe runs on virtually any recent Mac or Windows system. The only major requirement is QuickTime. QuickTime is free and easy to install: download QuickTime here.

System Requirements

InqScribe is compatible with each of the following operating systems:

	Windows 2000, NT, XP, Vista, or Windows 7 DirectX 8+ required QuickTime 7.0 strongly recommended, but not required.
	Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later QuickTime required InqScribe is a Universal Binary.

InqScribe also requires the following:

32 megabytes hard disk space
64 megabytes system RAM
1024 x 768 screen resolution*

*InqScribe will run on a 800 x 600 screen, but you may have some trouble viewing everything.

Digital Media Support

InqScribe supports a wide range of digital audio and video formats, including the following common formats:

QuickTime Movies
H.263 and H.264
MPEG, MPEG2, and MPEG4
AIFF, WAV, AAC, and MP3 audio
Windows Media formats (.wma and .wmv)
Many AVI formats.

Because InqScribe relies on QuickTime to handle media display, the program supports many more formats than shown here. You can view a complete list of QuickTime-supported formats on Apple's QuickTime site.

Windows users: InqScribe can use Windows Media Player in addition to QuickTime to play back even more formats. Please see the documentation for a comparison of Quicktime vs Windows Media features.

InqScribe can access media files from your local hard drive, optical disk drive, networked file server, and the Internet.

If you're not sure if InqScribe supports a particular media format, contact us and we'll let you know.

Time Code Formats

InqScribe supports several time code standards:

23.976 fps (or 23.98)
24 fps (traditional film)
25 fps (PAL)
29.97 fps (NTSC)
29.97 fps (NTSC Drop-Frame)
30 fps (Digital Video)
50 fps
59.94 fps
60 fps
1000 fps

Import and Export Support

InqScribe can import and export data in the following formats:

Plain text
Tab-delimited text
XML
HTML (export only)
Final Cut Pro XML (export only)
Spruce STL (export only)
Subrip (export only)

Tab-delimited and XML formats are suitable for importing into database and other data analysis applications. InqScribe can parse your transcripts and automatically generate a series of data records, using embedded timecodes as record markers.

Unicode Support

InqScribe is Unicode savvy. All the data you create within InqScribe is stored (and exported) in UTF8 format. Multiple languages can even be used within a single file!