Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Transcription software with time coding
Poster: kmtext
Post title: More and more companies are starting to ask for .srt
It may have started out as a fansubbing format, but with editing/burning-in increasingly being done on Final Cut it's becoming more of a standard these days. It's also useful in that it supports unicode which comes in handy if you're working with non-Latin text which can be problematic with .stl and .pac.
In terms of video transcription packages there are a lot available for reasonable prices. Which one you choose will probably depend on the formats the client wants. Packages like InqScribe and Express Scribe are fairly inexpensive, and support foot pedal control, but the timecode is in a non-standard format which you'd have to convert if the client wants something they can use to produce subtitles.
My advice would be that if you expect to get a large volume of work for broadcast or DVD production, where you have to produce frame-accurate captions that can be easily imported into other systems, it's worth going for one of the more expensive packages like Swift, Spot or Wincaps, but if you only expect to do occasional transcriptions for reference or non-broadcast purposes, go for something like InqScribe, Express Scribe or one of the less expensive subtitling packages.
Topic: Transcription software with time coding
Poster: kmtext
Post title: More and more companies are starting to ask for .srt
It may have started out as a fansubbing format, but with editing/burning-in increasingly being done on Final Cut it's becoming more of a standard these days. It's also useful in that it supports unicode which comes in handy if you're working with non-Latin text which can be problematic with .stl and .pac.
In terms of video transcription packages there are a lot available for reasonable prices. Which one you choose will probably depend on the formats the client wants. Packages like InqScribe and Express Scribe are fairly inexpensive, and support foot pedal control, but the timecode is in a non-standard format which you'd have to convert if the client wants something they can use to produce subtitles.
My advice would be that if you expect to get a large volume of work for broadcast or DVD production, where you have to produce frame-accurate captions that can be easily imported into other systems, it's worth going for one of the more expensive packages like Swift, Spot or Wincaps, but if you only expect to do occasional transcriptions for reference or non-broadcast purposes, go for something like InqScribe, Express Scribe or one of the less expensive subtitling packages.