#Nch express scribe mac mac os x#
I've got a MacBook Pro running Leopard Mac OS X version 10.5.4 with 2.33 intel core 2 duo, and i've got 3 GB memory.ġ) I don't yet have a foot pedal, but would like to use what you refer to as "hot keys" on my keyboard to stop, start, rewind, fast forward, etc. I've installed ES, also loaded mp3 files successfully and they can play fine. I'm in law school and want to use this to help me with transcribing class recordings. If I can get help with having to purchase a support plan, I would appreciate it cause I'm unemployed at the moment! I would pay for support if I knew in advance that there is Mac support, and that the following questions could be answered. I've searched through this Mac Forum and the FAQs and everywhere else, but can't figure this out! If you have any Mac specific problems please post them in the Mac forum Incidentally, after several years using ES I've only just discovered that you actually can load a single file - you just need to drag and drop its icon onto the ES window and it will load irrespective of which directory it comes from. The docs didn't make this clear to me, but it's fine once you get the hang of it. On the question of loading from a directory rather than a file, yes, I was fooled by this for a while. Do not use Switch for this - significantly it seems to have the same truncation bug, so it looks as if ES may be using the same MP3 conversion routine as Switch. Is this a known bug? The best workaround seems to be to convert the file to WAV using Quicktime Pro. I'm repeatedly finding that in the process of converting them to WAV ES truncates them, losing several minutes off the end of each file. There seems to be a problem with ES 4.05 on the Mac (10.4.11, in my case) when loading larger MP3s. This is an excellent and perennially useful piece of software, so I think it's worth chasing up the odd bug.