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App13 posted:Inqscribe is the best. I'm using the free version right now. Since you're familiar with it, any reason I should upgrade? The being able to save directly in inqscribe is good, but the export feature comes with the full version as well, meaning that once you get into ABS or for instance any client using tables or Excel, you can literally very easily have it all lined up without it exploding in Word. Which would have come in handy when learning ABS to save me a LOT of time I spent manually formatting because I didn't know better.
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I heard back from DT today, they said my test file didn't qualify. But... I can resubmit in 6 months. Muahahahahaha. I replied asking for feedback on what was deficient in my submission. We'll see if they get back to me.
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Aug 26, 2014 01:31
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If they told you that, probably your accuracy for what was said or when it was said.
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Aug 26, 2014 01:47
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Shima Honnou posted:If they told you that, probably your accuracy for what was said or when it was said. I didn't half-rear end it. I spent a good 3-4 hours going through it... after I sorted out the instructions. It would be nice to hear a little feedback.
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Aug 26, 2014 02:54
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ANP Transcription is hiring, I urge everyone NOT to work for them. I'm still seeing complaints online that have been recently posted about late payments from them and continuing childish behavior. So if you're seeing anything from them just ignore it. The pay per page isn't bad, but their unwillingness to pay on time if at all, as well as their style guide being crazy arbitrary and docking pay as they feel like. Ultimately, not an awesome company to work for, and I'm one of the ones that parted on good terms. I only bring this up because I got a "let's rebuild" email and it seems they're making a big hiring push again.
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If ANP isn't going to pay then they can go gently caress themselves. If they want this work done for free they can do it themselves, I say.
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Aug 26, 2014 04:32
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Looks like 90% of the hits when you search them on Google is complaints, so that's good
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moolchaba posted:I didn't half-rear end it. I spent a good 3-4 hours going through it... after I sorted out the instructions. moolchaba from earlier posted:Holy Hell. I just finished that test video from DT. I don't remember it exactly, but I seem to recall that there was actually quite a bit of stuttering and a good bunch of filler words as well in there, because that's how Alton always talks. If none of those were present in your transcript, it probably wasn't 100% accurate.
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Aug 26, 2014 10:44
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UZworm posted:I don't remember it exactly, but I seem to recall that there was actually quite a bit of stuttering and a good bunch of filler words as well in there, because that's how Alton always talks. If none of those were present in your transcript, it probably wasn't 100% accurate. Any given 7 minutes of Iron Chef America can probably be charitably described as 1 or 2 minutes of dead air and 5 to 6 minutes of non-stop strokes, so yeah, lots of stutters.
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Aug 26, 2014 10:49
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Agreed. And yet after decades on TV, they still always insist on verbatim for Alton Brown projects.
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Yeah. I had all the I-i-i-i-irish whiskey and uh uh um it looks like uh uh tartare... Yes, it's a steak tartare. They haven't gotten back with me yet, but I was hoping for a little more than "try again in 6 months" for the amount of time I invested. They were pretty good about responding to a few questions I had prior to submitting the test.
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Attention transcribers who have been at this for at least six months: Fall TV is coming, and I'd like to expand my team. I've had some favorable luck with recent hires who have less than six months experience, so if you have been at this for a shorter amount of time and think you can handle it, feel free to message me. From what I can gather, it seems I have a more critical eye w/r/t grammar and style as opposed to DT, hence the experience requirement. Just because you can speak English doesn't mean you can write it well! Those of you goons already working for me, feel free to comment on any differences. And I'm still waiting on test reels from a couple of you goons from a month or so back, so get your [bleep] in gear!
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Fall TV is coming, and I'd like to expand my team. I've had some favorable luck with recent hires who have less than six months experience, so if you have been at this for a shorter amount of time and think you can handle it, feel free to message me. Pro post, this is a pretty good gig and also fun unless certain companies come calling because they don't know what's decent audio and what's just random noise and fuzz coming from the audio channel of a video. Yeah, you do have a more critical eye for grammar and style than DT, but that's because actual people might read the captions. This is opposed to DT work where it's mostly producers and sound engineers, which experience has shown are generally not people. Shima Honnou fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Aug 26, 2014 23:32
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Sounds like a good gig except the 9pm to 7am thing. I'm getting too old for this all nighter poo poo.
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Aug 27, 2014 00:38
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That's just for overnight work. We pay $1/minute for noon and later deadlines. I tend to give work to people offering overnight availability first though regardless of whether there's actually overnight work. I've got one freelancer who offers me 120 minutes a day deliverable by 11:30 p.m. next day. e: For example, let's say it's August 31st. It's somewhere between 7:00 and 9:30 p.m., and I'm assigning work for the next day. Pay grades are as follows: "9/1-morning" --> due 7:00 a.m., $1.25/minute "9/1-noon" --> due 12:00 p.m., $1/minute "9/1-afternoon" --> due 5:00 p.m., $1/minute "9/1" --> due end of day, 11:30 p.m., $1/minute, so a little over 24-hour turnaround time Jedi Knight Luigi fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Aug 27, 2014 00:57
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I've actually gotten work earlier than the 9pm EST range. A couple weeks back... I forget her name but your counterpart. Lori? She sent me some work at 6pm on a Monday, pretty easy stuff, too. A cartoon and something else that I forget. If it weren't for my desire to watch men in panties pretend to hit each other every Monday I'd have had a whole night's work out before midnight that day; even then I finished the cartoon just by working during commercials.
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Yeah, sometimes stuff comes in earlier in the afternoon and I only have a couple Tetris blocks of freelancer availability that can fill it, so I can send it out a little earlier.
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Fall TV is coming, and I'd like to expand my team. I've had some favorable luck with recent hires who have less than six months experience, so if you have been at this for a shorter amount of time and think you can handle it, feel free to message me. What's the minimum experience you're looking for? I have a friend who is interested in getting into transcription, but he's done none, so far. I think his grammar is excellent. Unlike almost everyone else I know, his emails are always properly capitalized, punctuated, and paragraphed. For that matter, I am thinking about taking a stab at transcription, myself. Also, he speaks and reads/writes Japanese, is there any demand for that in the transcription field for people who don't reside in Japan?
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Aug 27, 2014 02:09
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Captions will be read by a decent chunk of people and have to be both legible and accurate. Unlike with DT, captions will actually be reviewed fully for accuracy instead of just a few jumps here and there to make sure there aren't any amazingly outstanding issues, and there are monthly reviews to ensure that you're putting out work of a certain quality. Grammar is king as well. If you've ever seen captions or subtitles, you know that people only have a few seconds to read and digest them before the next lines. It's probably best to just get a start in DT or a similar place first and stay there for at least a few months to make sure that A: You've got the basics of the job down, and B: That you can watch tens or hundreds of hours of reality TV footage without killing yourself. Even in captioning, reality TV and other similarly less scripted things come up quite a bit. I've been doing a lot of game shows of late myself, as well as a few other things that aren't a strictly scripted and recorded drama. Accuracy is even more vital in captioning than in just basic transcription, because I get completed episodes (Usually; sometimes there are placeholders where the crew hasn't put the CGI or credit sequence in place on various shows, but for the most part it's a 100% complete, as-it-will-air episode or film). That means, as with the example of game shows, you have to be able to discern dialogue through both a crowd and game show music. You've also got to be able to type a lot. I've found that the ratio is general 200x words for a 46 minute reality TV show episode (So you're looking at typing out somewhere between 7k and 10k words in fairly short order; that's as much as a short story). For game shows I've found it to be about 130x words, so a 21 minute episode sits close to 3000 words. Meanwhile, a drama could be anywhere between 800 words (Lowest I've seen, but it was a pretty experimental episode) to 5000 words for a ~42-46 minute episode. Furthering the comparison, a very dialogue heavy movie from the 1940s that I captioned had around 11k words. That was a ~90 or some odd minute movie, but it had the same amount of talking as you might find in a weekly episode of Trashy Rednecks From Saskatoon or whatever the new hotness in reality TV is. Shima Honnou fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Aug 27, 2014 02:28
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Good luck! I'm interested, if a bit hesitant about the overnight stuff, but I think I need a little more than three weeks of DT under my belt before I can confidently apply for captioning. Out of curiosity, how regularly do you completely fill your transcriber's requested number of minutes?
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counterfeitsaint posted:Good luck! I'm interested, if a bit hesitant about the overnight stuff, but I think I need a little more than three weeks of DT under my belt before I can confidently apply for captioning. Out of curiosity, how regularly do you completely fill your transcriber's requested number of minutes? Since I work for Jedi Knight Luigi as his Padawan Youngling Toad, I can say that most nights I get my fill of the minutes I've requested. He rarely goes over the requested minutes since he likes playing Price Is Right, unlike how DT tends to operate, but he will sometimes book you for multiple days in one night (Generally after asking you if that's cool, which it is for me). That's most apparent during the weekend. On Fridays I get a work order to be done with by Saturday and Sunday that takes up most of the weekend minutage I put in for. We're going into the summer finale area of the year so things have been getting a bit lighter on some work, though. I didn't have any work orders last night, which was fine for me all told, since due to reasons I was exhausted as poo poo anyway.
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counterfeitsaint posted:Good luck! I'm interested, if a bit hesitant about the overnight stuff, but I think I need a little more than three weeks of DT under my belt before I can confidently apply for captioning. Out of curiosity, how regularly do you completely fill your transcriber's requested number of minutes? This industry can really be feast or famine, as Kaz et al. have mentioned in this thread. You can never know for sure how much work there's gonna be, but my boss and I have a feeling we're going to need every scrap of availability we can get over the next 3-4 months. Centripetal Horse posted:What's the minimum experience you're looking for? I have a friend who is interested in getting into transcription, but he's done none, so far. I think his grammar is excellent. Unlike almost everyone else I know, his emails are always properly capitalized, punctuated, and paragraphed. For that matter, I am thinking about taking a stab at transcription, myself. If you PM me, I can give you my email address, and then I can send you our handbook/style guide. You can look that over and see if it's nit-picky enough for you. Because of the way captions are blocked on screen, we have to be really critical of comma splices especially. We are a safe haven for Oxford comma users, though, which I love. Japanese speaker, eh? I don't think we have much need for that in the transcription realm, but our multilingual project manager might have some use for that if he's a native speaker. If he's not, well, he could try out freelance translation for gengo.com. I do some German>English work there. Our company doesn't really do any English>[foreign language] stuff, mostly just the other way around. Jedi Knight Luigi fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Aug 27, 2014 20:25
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Any Writers Domain writers here? They are lowering their rates Sept 1st Standard 400 Word Articles (originally $20/article) 3 Stars - $15 4 or 5 Stars - $17.50 Premium Articles (Originally $40/article) 3 Stars - $34 4 or 5 Stars - $38 http://blog.writersdomain.net/2014/08/27/update-to-payment-structure/
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:If you PM me, I can give you my email address, and then I can send you our handbook/style guide. You can look that over and see if it's nit-picky enough for you. Because of the way captions are blocked on screen, we have to be really critical of comma splices especially. We are a safe haven for Oxford comma users, though, which I love. I'll send you a private message, then. I am a fan of the Oxford comma, myself. I'll look over the style guide and pass it on to my buddy. My friend was born and raised in the USA, but Japanese is his first language, as his parents are both from Japan, and it's what was spoken in his home. His current job involves translating business documents and contracts from Japanese into English for his boss, who is a little weak on business vocabulary. I'll tell him about Gengo.com.
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Astro7x posted:Any Writers Domain writers here? They are lowering their rates Sept 1st I came here to post this too. It's still better rates than, say, Textbroker, but with all the turmoil at WD recently, there are a lot of warning signs that bad things are destined.
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Astro7x posted:Any Writers Domain writers here? They are lowering their rates Sept 1st Pfff. I've been half-assing it there, but the money is good. I'm just poo poo at working from home. Lower rate is worth it for the instant pay and quick reviews, but getting to $100 will be more tedious. What they really should do is provide titles—that would be awesome and make the articles 100x easier to write. I haven't logged in a few days. I bet there are a bunch of middle aged moms flipping their poo poo. unbuttonedclone fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Aug 28, 2014 01:55
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Oh god, the forums there are horrible… people take offense to the wording in boiler plate reviews as if it was a personal attack on them. i did the math, and I'd lose about 20% of my earnings over the past 6 months under this new payment system. It's still good pay for WFH crappy SEO articles that nobody will read, but after taxes it now comes to about $12 per 400 word article for me. I just wish the quality standards went down with the pay. Earlier today I was asked to provide a citation that dentures will dry out if you do not leave them in water. The gently caress?
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Astro7x posted:Oh god, the forums there are horrible… people take offense to the wording in boiler plate reviews as if it was a personal attack on them. I had to abandon my first article for them because the editors could not understand what a metal building was and why you would want to minimize noise in one. I like their feedback, I just avoid stuff when I think I'm going to have to deal with an editor's limited life experience. They are kind of dumb
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Fall TV is coming, and I'd like to expand my team. I've had some favorable luck with recent hires who have less than six months experience, so if you have been at this for a shorter amount of time and think you can handle it, feel free to message me. Hey kids! Are you tired of endless timestamped full verbatim cell phone recorded interviews taking place entirely within a rustling hedge during a hurricane and involving two screaming men who have filled their mouths entirely with peanut butter all for the excruciatingly low rate of 14 nickels per minute? Would you rather deal with (mostly) broadcast ready material and get paid 50% more nickels per minute (that adds up quickly)? Then get off your lazy, metaphorical backside and pm JKL! Learn to use commas and get paid more! It's a sweet deal.
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Unless he makes you watch A terrible show. That poo poo is just AWFUL! Otherwise he's awesome to work for.  edited for stupidity Slightly Used Cake fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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Aug 28, 2014 19:51
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Haven't had to do that show yet. Did a show I've done before last night/today, I noticed that they apparently gave us a copy with notes of where ADR should be (Some dude with a nerdy voice speaking the lines) but hadn't yet ADR'd in said lines. So that was unexpected!
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Aug 28, 2014 20:43
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Oh my god I get that all the time with the caption stuff. It's hilarious when they get into it doing voices like how they think the character sounds. I don't know what all this company handles, but I'm hoping for terrible assistant gruff voice overs of Supernatural. Pretty pretty please JKL! It's all I want for Christmas!
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Aug 28, 2014 22:01
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I can't confirm or deny what shows we do, especially on a semi-public forum (and neither should you!  )
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I don't care if a show's good or bad, really. I care how easily I can understand what's said and how much is said. A show could be the worst garbage ever but if it doesn't have 12 people cutting each other off some other DT-style bullshit then it's actually a pretty good and cool show!
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Aug 29, 2014 10:47
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Absolutely. I don't care how brain draining anything is as long as it pays and it's not a dialogue nightmare.
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I normally don't. I just had a show where I was struggling to hear the dialogue because the soundtrack was so fracking loud compared to the cast. So you just had a bunch of fairly wooden actors being fairly monotone, but quieter when they needed to be dramatic.
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Slightly Used Cake posted:I normally don't. I just had a show where I was struggling to hear the dialogue because the soundtrack was so fracking loud compared to the cast. So you just had a bunch of fairly wooden actors being fairly monotone, but quieter when they needed to be dramatic. Could be worse. Monotone is fairly easy to understand, and at least it was music and not unscripted dialogue while music and a crowd is roaring in the background as in game shows.
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This is true! Or, identify all eight of these speakers while they talk over each other, but we're recording them from one lovely mike behind the woman chewing loudly and eating chips. Oh and we're videotaping them from behind using a camera from the 80s.
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That's cool, apparently to get the approved spelling of certain (random?) words you have to subscribe to Merriam-Webster now. Good thing that's totally not something I do for a job, such as captioning, right?
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Shima Honnou posted:That's cool, apparently to get the approved spelling of certain (random?) words you have to subscribe to Merriam-Webster now. Good thing that's totally not something I do for a job, such as captioning, right? Say whaaaa? I thought Collegiate was free and Universal was paid.
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