Start-Stop™
PowerPlay for Windows Media was
developed by HTH Engineering, Inc. in 2004 in response to Florida Law Enforcement’s
growing need to transcribe interviews captured on inexpensive DVD players.
We’ve taken user inputs from our customers, including law enforcement,
government users, and the movie and television industry since then, with
continuing improvement in features and performance!
Today, Start Stop PowerPlay (in its fourth year
with New Version 3.0 just released) remains the premier solution and world’s
best DVD and Multiformat Video, Streaming, Web and Media transcriber for
PCs.
Nothing comes close
(see comparison to "all in one" imitator product), with Start
Stop Power Play’s unique features:
- Transcribe
DVDs and CDs and much more (virtually any industry media format, web,
video or audio on your PC)!
Commercial Hollywood DVDs, Home and Organization-Burned DVDs, Audio
Compact Discs, Windows Media, Real Video™ and Real Audio™, Apple Quicktime™,
AVI, Shockwave Flash™, .ASF, .WMV, WAV, MP3, MPEG and many more formats,
in any form (from DVDs, or on flash drives, or hard drive, or via the
internet.)
- Adjustable
Size Video Window sits “always on top” if you like, in the corner of
your word processor. You
see the video and your word processor at the same time, so your eyes
stay focused on the media while you are typing on the screen.
- Bookmark
( or index) up to 16 spots within a media clip and instantly return
back to them for playback/exhibition by
merely double-clicking. This is especially important when showing video
in a courtroom or to a group of law enforcement officers, or for a Hollywood
script.
- Instant
“Go-To” positioning allows you to instantly reach any point
in the video to the nearest second. Merely enter the Hour, minute, and
second you want to “zoom” to.
- Time
Stamps and Video Thumbnails can be inserted right into your Microsoft
Word™ processor, providing a visual record of what
the video looked like at that point, what time it was said (real time
or elapsed time).
- Free
Lifetime Software Upgrades insures
your product will never go out of date, and will remain a useful tool
as long as you own it. Windows Vista™, XP™, 2000™, Windows 98SE™
- The
Ultimate in Reliability - No Moving Parts other than the foot pedal
itself, which utilizes 20 million-cyle
rated OMRON™ switch assemblies. 1 Year warranty on foot pedals (replacement
pedals are only $75 if you ever need one) but 99% of our 200K plus users’s
pedals have lasted for many years with heavy daily use.
- No
Security Residue left on your PC from playing media
- Start Stop PowerPlay does not create “temporary” files on a
PC hard drive that can be later “hacked”. Start Stop PowerPlay only
plays the media “in-situ” from its source (hard drive, removable drive,
physical DVD or CD, Network Drive letter, USB Thumbdrive, Web Streaming
clip) in its native form.
- Ability
to play and store individual VOBs (Video Objects) from the DVD!
A DVD’s video content consists of a series of VOB files, easily viewable
from your PC. Start Stop PowerPlay allows you to treat DVDs video just
like any other video or audio PC-based file. Not only can you insert
and transcribe the entire DVD as you would normally, but you also have
the option to copy/store/email one or more of the DVD’s individual VOB
files onto any media for playback later.
Examples:
-Easily back up individual sections of the DVD interview to your hard
drive or thumbdrive for transcription later, and keep the original DVD
intact.
-A pool of transcriptionists can work-share and transcribe videos that
are stored on a common server drive.
-Email, web-store, or share VOBs like any other media, rather than having
to duplicate or ship the entire original DVD to the transcriptionist.
- New!
Continuous Video Thumbnailing + Timestamp feature allows
you to automatically catalog an entire DVD or video clip. Set the adjustable
time interval to 5 seconds for example, and Start Stop PowerPlay will
automatically create a document that contains video snapshots and timestamping
(e.g. HH:MM:SS in terms of elapsed or real time) showing the action
every 5 seconds. Since feature is “keyed” based on elapsed time, a transcriptionist
can also type along while listening and viewing the video, and Start
Stop Power Play will periodically and automatically insert the thumbnails
and/or timestamp into the document as they type.
- Price
includes friendly, expert technical support from
our engineering and technical staff for the life of the product. HTH
Engineering, Inc. is your source for excellent engineered products since
1997, an industry leader with degreed engineers on staff.
- In
use since 2004 by Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement, RCMP Canada,
Hollywood transcription studios, International Criminal Court,
and free-lance transcriptionists around the world, involved in a marketing,
board room meetings, interview translation, web video transcription
and more!
- We
accept P.O.s and are certified with the US Government Central Contractor
Registration, Better Business Bureau, and Dunn & Bradstreet
FAX your PO to (810) 821-6940. Pricing and Quantity Discounts for Government
Users.
Considering
an electromechanical DVD player?
- Electromechanical
devices wear out, have moving parts, and the laser reader will weaken
and eventually fail. That’s why these products are generally non-returnable
and carry a very limited warranty (e.g. 90 days), and costs 3 times
as much.
- “One
Note Pony” design only plays DVDs and CDs. Limited usefulness.
- It
would be good idea to be concerned about damaging the original DVD if
it’s stuck inside an electromechanical player for transcribing. To back
it up, you’ve got to duplicate the entire DVD, a time-consuming process.
- “Clamoring”
for an ergonomic solution? Don’t look at a stand alone unit to do that!
Imagine trying to constantly view a small 5 inch screen while typing
into your PC’s word processor on another screen. This could be a pain
in the neck, in more ways than one!
- Need
to timestamp or have visual video thumbnails printed out right in the
typewritten transcript? Not possible with a mechanical player.
- Need
to transcribe an interview that’s been downloaded from web, emailed,
on a removable media, or something in a format that’s PC or MAC based?
Not possible with a mechanical player.
- Concerned
about sensitive interviews and internet security? Unless you’re typing
into an old-fashioned Underwood Typewriter (“click click click”) it’s
highly likely that you’re using a computer anyway for the word processing.
Word Processing files from the created transcript are much easier to
“grab” if your computer is connected to the internet than are large
media files such as exist on a DVD. In any scenario, for sensitive work
or otherwise, it’s always highly recommended that a computer should be on its own private network and/or firewalled.
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