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Overview
Play and transcribe Video DVDs and Audio CDs on your PC under foot pedal control using your favorite word processor! Also play Windows MediaTM Streaming Video (WMV), Apple QuicktimeTM (MOV), Windows AVI, RealPlayerTM video and audio formats, Windows ASF (Audio Streaming Format), DivXTM Video Formats, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-3, MPEG-4, Macromedia FlashTM, MP3, WAV, MIDI, Windows Media Audio (WMA), Sony Digital Recorder (DVF), MSV and many more!

Start Stop PowerPlay remains the premier solution and world’s best DVD and Multiformat Video, Streaming, Web and Media transcriber for PCs.

PowerPlay is ideal for transcribing:
Law Enforcement video interviews on DVD Streaming MP3, WMA, Music, and Voice from the Web Courtroom Hearings and Proceedings Hollywood Movies TV Closed-captioning Video Time-coding City Council Meetings Focus Groups Corporate Boardroom meetings Oral History Interviews University Research Videos

The Start Stop PowerPlay also includes advanced ergonomic features such as the Start Stop Job Manager that allows you to easily organize and archive jobs, bookmark and label sections of video, automatically time-stamp a video or audio source, and of course the variable speed and variable step function to suit your preferences

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.
  
• 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.

Below is a list of file formats supported under a standard install:

DVDs (Commercial or burned ):
Entire DVDs – including titles and sub menus
DVD Individual Video Files (.vob, ifo) Playable from DVD or by copying the individual VOB files to any other media such as a hard drive.

Windows/Microsoft™
Microsoft AVI Video (.avi)
Microsoft Audio/Video Web Streaming format (.asf)
Windows Media Files (.wmv, wmp, .wm) Streaming or on disk

Real Video™
Real Media Files (.rm, .ram, .rpm, .rmm, .rnx)
Real Script Files (.rt, .rp, .smi, .smil)

Apple Quicktime (compressed and non-compressed) Video
Apple Quicktime™ (.mov, .qt, .amr, .3gp2, .3g2, .3gpp)

MPEG VIDEO
MPEG Video/Media Files (.mpg, .mpeg, .mpe, .m1v, .mp2, .mpv2, .dat, .ts .tp )

Macromedia Flash™
Macromedia Flash (.swf)

DIVX™ Video
DIVX Video for DVDs and other media (.divx, .vp6, .rmvb, .hdmov)

Miscellaneous Video Formats
Bink and Smacker
Dirac (.drc)
DirectShow Media File (.dsm, .dsv, .dsa)
DVD2AVI Project Files (.d2v)
FLIC File (.fli, .flc, .flic)
Indeo Video File (.ivf)
Matroska Media File (mkv)
OGG Media (.ogm)
RoQ Media File (.roq)

VIDEO CODEC LIST
DivX Pro [version 5.1.1]
DivX MPEG-4 Low and Fast motion [version 4.1.0.3927]
XviD [2004-02-07]
3ivX [version D4 4.5.1]
Windows Media 7 [version 7.1.0.3055]
Windows Media 8 [version 8.0.0.371]
Windows Media 9 VCM [version 9.0.1.369]
MPEG-2
On2 VP3 [version 3.2.5.0]
On2 VP6 [version 6.1.0.2]
DVD decoder
AVI
Ligos Indeo XP [version 5.2820.15.58]
Intel Indeo [version 4.51.16.2]
Intel Indeo [version 3.24.15.03]
Intel I.263 [version 2.55.1.16]
huffyuv [version 2.1.1]
MS MPEG-4 [version 4.1.0.3927]
QuickTime codecs [version 6.5.0.48]
RealMedia codecs [version 6.0.12.690]
Fraunhofer MP3 DirectShow decoder [version 1.9.0.311]
LAME MP3 ACM codec [version 3.95.1]
DirectVobSub (vsfilter) [version 2.32]
Shockwave Flash (SWF)

Also plays these Audio Formats:
Audio Compact Discs (CDs) Tracks (.CDA)
DVD Audio (.ac3, .dts)
MIDI (electronic music) Files (.mid, .midi, .rmi)
Matroska Audio File (.mka, .tpr, .pva, .pss)
Microsoft Audio (WAV)
MPEG Audio Files (.mpa, .mp2, .m1a, m2a)
MP3
Windows Media Audio (WMA)
Window Audio Streaming (web) format (ASF)
Apple/MAC™ Audio (AIFF , AU )
DVD Audio
DIVX Audio
OGG Vorbis Audio File (.ogg)
MPEG4 Audio File (.aac, .m4a) non-DRM
Real™ Audio (.ra and .rm)
Apple Quicktime™ Audio
Sony Digital Recorder Audio (MSV and DVF)

System Requirements:
Operating System: Windows 7, Windows Vista™(all versions), Windows XP Home™ and Xp Pro™, Windows 2000™, Windows ME™, Windows 98SE™ and Windows NT™ 4.0 compatible
Memory: 512MB RAM
Processor: 2ghz
Sound Card: Sound Blaster or equivalent 16bit sound card.
Other Hardware: DVD drive needed to transcribe from DVD media.
USB Port: for Foot pedal & optional headset

Supplied Accessories

PowerPlay Software
Printed User Manual (with CD-Rom purchase)
Free Software Upgrades for the life of the product
*Optional USB Footpedal
*Optional Headset