Realtime software

[Jennifer G. Torres]

I'm looking at switching my software. I'm currently using CaseCATalyst. Can anyone give me an opinion whether Eclipse is as easy to use as Case? What about StenoCAT?

[Janet]

Eclipse is very easy to learn, in my opinion. I've been using Eclipse since 1991, and I love it. Once you've learned the basics, you can work on advanced features to improve your realtime even more with programmable phonetics, translation magic, editing from the steno machine. It's a great system.

[Amy Landry]

There are better ones out there than StenoCAT IMO.

[Rachel Gard]

I'm on Case. I've never lost my audio file when my computer locks up. I've even had to take the battery out but still haven't lost audio.

Rachel

[Rhonda Hall Breuwet, RDR CRR CLR]

Case is a great software. Why are you wanting to change? I mean, if it is paid for and you are on the latest version, why spend the money on something else, causing you to have downtime to learn something else?

[Mary Ann Payonk]

Jennifer, Rhonda's right. If your CAT system's paid for and you have current support w/updates and are running the current version, what about CaseCATalyst is making you want to change? I'm on Eclipse, but I started out on StenoCAT. I switched for the ease of realtime alone, but I'm glad I'm with Eclipse. Again, what are you looking for?

M.A.

[Kristin Vickery]

I was a CASE user for several years (I was originally a Premier Power peson) and had support on speed dial for all the problems I had. I did switch to Eclipse about 14 months ago. They both have good points and bad. Eclipse has more good points than bad in the long run, for me. I was able to switch over and use it within a week of buying it. I was very lucky that a good friend of mine is a broadcast captioner and had made the switch from CASE to Eclipse, so she walked me through it. Eclipse has a user group meeting every spring, and it is the best hands-on training. I went to my first one this spring and plan on going back. The help files that come with Eclipse are great. I think the biggest problem I have is knowing what CASE called something, such as include files, and then trying to think of what the Eclipse name for the same thing is. Although, everyone I have met that uses Eclipse has been great about giving me their e-mail addresses or helping me with silly little questions that it really is amazing. Headers, footers, and indexing are much, much easier. None of those reveal codes to deal with! I wish you luck in your decision.