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Hi.

I'm transcribing some audio dialog in a video ( I'm not a transcriber so I'm slow) and to do it I am running camtasia video editing software on Windows 8 and then toggling between that and Microsoft wordpad to type the transcription. The problem is that I have to toggle between windows to pause the video while I type. I would like to have an app that lets me have a "learn " feature where I can use the key commands of two apps running at the same time so I don't have to toggle back and forth. This would allow me to play the video and type and then pause the video while staying in the microsoft wordpad.

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You might want to check out autohotkey. You could maybe create a keyboard macro that alt-tabs, pauses the video, then alt-tabs again. http://www.autohotkey.com/

This looks interesting. Bookmarked

One alternative solution: if you have a keyboard with media keys, the "pause" key should pause and play media player irrespective of the application that has focus. Same for the rewind/fast-forward keys.

Another alternative: use integrated software that includes media playback plus text editing, like F4: http://www.audiotranskription.de/english/f4.htm

I forgot to mention I'm using Camtasia to edit video in conjunction with the transcription, so this is a video that is cut into pieces. I'm doing a bunch of things at once including editing so the idea was to stay in Camtasia. I suppose I could just export the entire thing and do the transcription while having windows media player open and using it instead. Thanks.

Is this for something other than captioning? Because Camtasia has captioning support, and supports providing transcripts, or using speech recognition to help you create and edit it. http://blogs.techsmith.com/tips-how-tos/easy-methods-for-cre...

I didn't bother to check the docs as I didn't think this would be a feature. I assumed it would require manually typing out the captions.

Problem solved :)

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Problem not solved. It works so poorly that I am better off just typing it out manually.

this might help: http://digitalwalt.com/always-on-top-free-app-to-keep-favori...

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