Transcriptions at Mac App Store analyse

A rtf-text editor optimized for fast MANUAL transcription of audio- or video material on the Mac. Now with subtitle editing support.

Used around the world in research, education and journalism since 2008.
MacBreak Weekly pick of the week on March 30, 2010.

Features:
* Media with tape behavior (including variable playback speed)
* Customizeable media-control shortcuts (NOW with "fast forward"!)
* Timestamps
* Text substitution
* Subtitle file import and export
* Footpedal-support

Free/Libre Open Source Software.
The source code of Transcriptions can be checked out at GitHub. Please support further development of Transcriptions by filing bug reports and feature requests on the GitHub project homepage - or write an email. Before posting an app store review, please consider contributing to this open source project!

Thanks to all supporters.


How to use:
Load media in the player ("File" - "Open media file..."), use the media-controls to adjust speed and volume, set keyboard shortcuts for media control in the "Preferences" pane and type away. 
Transcriptions also supports text-substitutions by inserting "@" followed by a text-token. Insert timestamps into the text to jump to a particular position in the loaded media file.

Supported media file formats (based on AVFoundation):
* public.mpeg,
* public.dv-movie
* public.aifc-audio
* com.apple.mpeg-4-ringtone
* com.microsoft.waveform-audio
* public.3gpp
* public.3gpp2
* public.avi
* com.apple.itunes.audible
* public.aac-audio
* com.apple.quicktime-movie
* public.aiff-audio
* com.apple.m4v-video
* org.3gpp.adaptive-multi-rate-audio
* com.apple.coreaudio-format
* public.mpeg-4-audio
* com.apple.m4a-audio
* com.apple.itunes.mp2
* public.mpeg-2-video
* public.mpeg-4
* public.mp2
* public.mp3
* public.au-audio
* public.mpeg-2-transport-stream
* public.ac3-audio
* com.apple.protected-mpeg-4-audio

Depends on how you work

• ★★★☆☆   Acalmplace 7 years ago ( v 1.2 )

My main issue, and the reason why I’m no longer using the app, is that it doesn’t use the keyboard’s play buttons. Instead, one has to use ctrl-1, ctrl-2, etc. This is not so easy to do while typing, as it requires two fingers. The ergonomics made me abandon using the app.

It doesn’t work at all!

• ★☆☆☆☆   Augusto_sa 9 years ago ( v 1.0 )

Waste of time trying this app. It doesn’t work at all!

Useful!

• ★★★★☆   Antonio Castagnoli 8 years ago ( v 1.1 )

Great for a free app. I don’t give 5 stars because there’s always something to improve.

Ok, but it’s a pity that…

• ★★★☆☆   fmrcwb 8 years ago ( v 1.1 )

It would be great if you put some information about language supported by the app. I would have been happy to pay for brazilian portuguese :)

TOP

• ★★★★★   Tuna369 8 years ago ( v 1.1 )

Seitdem F4 (nun F5) kostenpflichtig geworden ist, hab ich hier die viel bessere open source ALternative gefunden. Happy!

Can’t say much since doesn’t open MP3 files!

• ★☆☆☆☆   jjstrybosch 9 years ago ( v 1.0 )

Looked good but it can’t open the audio files created by my audio recorder. I’d understand except that they are MP3 files the most common audio file format.

Does not even open

• ★☆☆☆☆   Dame-Plume 9 years ago ( v 1.1 )

Says that the application is not based on AV Kit… okay… but it crashes because it can not find it...

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