My wife has to do transcription and most of the players are for Windows, and the free one that comes with the pedal doesn't work well. This is a hack to create a pedal-like environment on the keyboard for transcribing Audio/Video files in QuickTime using four AppleScripts (PlayPause, FastForward, Rewind, and Pause).
These scripts run a QuickTime movie in the background and allow for simple keyboard control of the playback while in another application (e.g. MS Word, TextEdit, or any other). The scripts are used in combination with Keyboard Maestro, which allows you to assign AppleScripts to keyboard shortcuts. I assigned each of the following scripts a shortcut. Before using the scripts, open the file you want to transcribe in QuickTime. Make sure it's the active movie.
The four scripts each control a different aspect of playback behavior:
tell application "QuickTime Player"
if the movie 1 is playing then
stop movie 1
set the current_time to current time of movie 1
set current time of movie 1 to (the current_time - ¬
1.5 * (time scale of movie 1))
else
play movie 1
end if
end tell
tell application "QuickTime Player"
if the movie 1 is playing then
stop movie 1
else
set rate of movie 1 to 2.0
end if
end tell
tell application "QuickTime Player"
if the movie 1 is playing then
stop movie 1
else
set rate of movie 1 to -4.0
end if
end tell
tell application "QuickTime Player"
if the movie 1 is playing then
stop movie 1
else
set rate of movie 1 to -4.0
end if
end tell
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