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Today I worked some documentary interviews. I am so very happy to become reacquainted with my friend, [NON-INTERVIEW], as well as his best buddy, "clean verbatim".
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A friend told me there might be freelance translators in here. I've started a translator thread, come post http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3641054
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Jun 8, 2014 06:35
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My interviewee is letting out slow farts while he's being questioned. Long, slow farts. Constantly. This man could power the Hindenburg.
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Jun 9, 2014 01:02
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Slightly Used Cake posted:My interviewee is letting out slow farts while he's being questioned. Long, slow farts. Constantly. This man could power the Hindenburg. Would those count as [Non-interview], [Background noise], or [Cross-talk]?
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Jun 9, 2014 02:31
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Except for how many invoices I'll have to send in, I kinda like getting a bunch of little bite-sized videos, especially when I can use non-interview. Beats the poo poo out of an 80 minute full verbatim behemoth looming over me!
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Jun 9, 2014 02:37
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All for DT or for like a bunch of different places?
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Jun 9, 2014 03:06
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Slightly Used Cake posted:All for DT or for like a bunch of different places? DT, that one big project they had over the weekend.
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Jun 9, 2014 03:26
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Okay, between poor time management, some personal issue flare-ups, and the power being kind of unreliable because of the storm and tornado crap going on right now, I am falling way behind, and have a bit over 12 hours to do ~70 minutes of transcription. This includes when I'm supposed to be sleeping, but my schedule's so hosed up right now that at least that's not an issue. Who do I talk to about getting some of this to someone else, and will it negatively affect my future assignments?
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Jun 9, 2014 03:39
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I'd imagine you want to email Sally, but shoot for doing maybe 15 minutes per hour starting like, right now, partition that poo poo off and finish it in about 4 hours total time. If you've gotta lose a bit of sleep over it, that's part of the job sometimes when you run into trouble, just gotta manage time better. I'll tell you right now, parting out your work in manageable sets of 10 to 20 minutes per hour like that will do wonders for you, especially as you get faster at it. No clue if it'll affect your future. They're usually pretty understanding, though, and they should be able to see if your area's been having those big storms or not, so telling them about it now might be your best bet. In lighter news, most of the video I just completed was non-interview of the cast and crew joking about masturbation. I love this job sometimes, I swear.
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Jun 9, 2014 03:57
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Shima Honnou posted:I'd imagine you want to email Sally, but shoot for doing maybe 15 minutes per hour starting like, right now, partition that poo poo off and finish it in about 4 hours total time. If you've gotta lose a bit of sleep over it, that's part of the job sometimes when you run into trouble, just gotta manage time better. I'll tell you right now, parting out your work in manageable sets of 10 to 20 minutes per hour like that will do wonders for you, especially as you get faster at it. This, and yeah, if it's due to power issues form weather, there's nothing you can do. I'd probably not mention the personal issues, unless you feel like it's going to be something recurring, in which case figure it out and adjust your availability accordingly. Email Sally immediately when things like this occur, she can usually find a home for the extra work if she needs to without much trouble.
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Jun 9, 2014 05:06
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I'm really hating the new way WritersDomain is doing keywords. My internet goes out for long stretches, and before that wasn't a problem - I'd just write a bunch of articles about a keyword with a large number available and submit them all in a row when I got back online. That isn't really possible now, though fortunately I've still never had an article expire during an outage. In a shocking turn of events, making money online works a lot better with consistent internet. 
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Jun 9, 2014 05:27
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How am I supposed to identify speakers in the video and match them to the photo sheet when the resolution is like 50x50 pixels? I hope they have a secret stash of high res uploads somewhere.
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Jun 9, 2014 06:50
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Spartan421 posted:How am I supposed to identify speakers in the video and match them to the photo sheet when the resolution is like 50x50 pixels? I hope they have a secret stash of high res uploads somewhere. Think I might be on the same project as you. Good luck is about all I can say, I'm basically just gonna guess to the best of my abilities and let the client sort that poo poo out. If they don't like it, they can give us massive sized HD files like other clients do instead of video that's been recorded off a monitor using a Nokia 6600 or whatever. At least the audio isn't bad and I can non-interview where appropriate.
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Jun 9, 2014 07:25
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Oh God, I fell asleep when I should have been catching up. This is how my freelance career ends, not with a bang, but with a snore.
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Jun 9, 2014 09:12
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Hope you got to work immediately as soon as you got up, you still had the four hours necessary to finish it.
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Jun 9, 2014 12:56
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Oh, thank God. I misread the due time as being EST, it's actually PST. I have three more hours than I thought I did. I should actually be able to do this. But god drat if I didn't learn a lesson about procrastination.
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Jun 9, 2014 13:09
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All times are always PST coming from DT. You'll get used to adding three hours to any given assignment, but they've been pretty lenient about it with me before. Still, get to work right now if you aren't already, you've got time to polish this off, move on, take the lesson from it, and pretend it never happened.
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Jun 9, 2014 13:12
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Shima Honnou posted:All times are always PST coming from DT. You'll get used to adding three hours to any given assignment, but they've been pretty lenient about it with me before. Edit Anyone else here getting into DT, learn my lesson well: A weekend job is supposed to be done over the whole weekend. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Jun 9, 2014 |
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Jun 9, 2014 13:27
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I wouldn't stress too much dude. I've been late before and just casually uploaded to box like nothing was wrong. They always have tons of other things going on.
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Jun 9, 2014 15:05
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Yeah. I'd try not to be either on time or ahead of schedule, but I've turned assignments in up to 2 hours late because of the whole timezone thing before and heard nothing about it.
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Jun 9, 2014 15:34
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That... would've been nice to know before I worked myself into a frenzy this morning, but whatever. Got just over 3 hours until listed-due-time to get ~20 minutes of footage done. Definitely in better shape than I was afraid I'd be. Now I'm actually more worried about the stuff I hurried earlier not being up to snuff, but the only thing QC's said so far is a reminder about margins.
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Jun 9, 2014 16:53
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I would like to stress aiming for the due time. Try and let Sally know. Just because she says nothing doesn't mean she doesn't note it, and it's better to stay in communication. When sending emails like that I should've said also shoot submissions an email in case she's not around, so that QC can know what's going on. But honestly...there are a lot of people who have been complete tossers about it all lately. Really though, when you're new and still adjusting to the format, until you're usually spotless, don't risk going over the mark too much otherwise QC will hate you because they can't get the revisions sorted.
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Jun 9, 2014 17:32
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Well yeah, I figured Mushroom had enough sense to not make it a habit 
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Jun 9, 2014 18:12
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You would assume everyone would know not to make a habit of it... Sorry Mushroom, no disrespect meant. I'm sure you're a proper grownup. Also, new favorite, if you can't hear the question, mark it as inaudible. Most long-winded questions ever, like 50 feet away from the mic. I can't hear a loving thing. Sigh.
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Jun 9, 2014 19:21
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Slightly Used Cake posted:I'm sure you're a proper grownup.
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Jun 9, 2014 20:30
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Slightly Used Cake posted:I would like to stress aiming for the due time. Try and let Sally know. Just because she says nothing doesn't mean she doesn't note it, and it's better to stay in communication. When sending emails like that I should've said also shoot submissions an email in case she's not around, so that QC can know what's going on. But honestly...there are a lot of people who have been complete tossers about it all lately. Really though, when you're new and still adjusting to the format, until you're usually spotless, don't risk going over the mark too much otherwise QC will hate you because they can't get the revisions sorted. Yeah. They tend to be more forgiving if you have a record showing that even if you're a little on the late side, your files are close to immaculate. It means that QC doesn't have to stress about your file being awful and thus causing the company itself to miss the deadline imposed by the client, since "awful file" = QC emailing you back telling you to go over it again, when you may not actually be around in time to do it yourself. Similarly, it's not impossible to get a deadline extension. I've done it a couple times for when I know I'm going to be out for the day it's due, or w/e, but know that it's a doable transcription within a reasonable timeframe. Sometimes they'll just flat-out reassign if it's too close to the due date and they can't accommodate, but they'd rather do that than have you stress out and turn in a potentially rushed/bad file with a deadline that didn't allow you enough time to doublecheck it for errors. A GOOD TIP: If you're running even a little late during the review process, send them an email and tell them you're reviewing the file, and that's why it's late*. Lastly: one thing that's helpful to realize is that this really is wall-to-wall work. It's not like an office job where sometimes there's downtime, sometimes there isn't. Remember: an 80min file has a guaranteed, tacked-on hour and twenty minutes worth of sitting there correcting poo poo as you're reviewing the file, without any of the typing to take into consideration. Unless you want to turn in something that makes QC pull their hair out. Basically, that amounts to about (at a decent, beginner typing speed) at least 4 hours of solid work, or more if it's a rough file. * EDIT Just be sure that's actually what you're doing and that the file does look as immaculate as possible. Otherwise, they'll be (understandably) annoyed with you. Slightly Used Cake posted:Also, new favorite, if you can't hear the question, mark it as inaudible. Most long-winded questions ever, like 50 feet away from the mic. I can't hear a loving thing. Sigh. I've got one where they keep in all the filming gaffs/banter. I've skated through at least 25mins of nothing but chatter in an 80 minute file. I hope I get this client forever. Old Boot fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Jun 9, 2014 |
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Jun 9, 2014 20:39
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I got my first article rejection. Any reason not to create a Constant Content account and put it up there?
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Jun 9, 2014 20:57
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Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:I got my first article rejection. Any reason not to create a Constant Content account and put it up there? Not really. There's the chance it could be rejected by CC (they don't have a separate revision process, just rejection with a comment on something to change before resubmitting) and too many of those on a new account can make the new account close, but I have no idea how strict that is. Also it might not sell right away, but having it up available is better than having it rot in a subfolder somewhere on a harddrive, so.
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Jun 9, 2014 22:21
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An Old Boot posted:Lastly: one thing that's helpful to realize is that this really is wall-to-wall work. It's not like an office job where sometimes there's downtime, sometimes there isn't. Remember: an 80min file has a guaranteed, tacked-on hour and twenty minutes worth of sitting there correcting poo poo as you're reviewing the file, without any of the typing to take into consideration. Unless you want to turn in something that makes QC pull their hair out. Alternatively, run it through again at 150% speed or even higher during the verification process.
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Jun 10, 2014 01:48
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I'm now working the same picture-match-up project that a lot of you guys are I think. Is it just me, or is there a lot of [INAUDIBLE] and [OVERLAP] in this? I've got pretty okay headphones, at max volume, and a lot of the small talk stuff seems to be very mumbling and people talking over each other quite a bit. Edit Wait, never mind, this is [NON-INTERVIEW] small talk. I think the 'full fifteen seconds of it bleeped out in its entirety right before the interview starts' was the giveaway.  Edit2 What's the proper tag for 'literally everything is drowned out by a censor beep'? girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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Jun 10, 2014 05:09
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It's probably not a censor beep, it's probably the sound guy getting set up for the interview proper. More than a few customers I've done work for have had a setup where there's a long (and seriously annoyingly loud) tone before the actual interview begins. If there's actual formal questions and answers that begin a few minutes into a tape, you can usually leave out any chatter that went on before it. As you do more of this work, you'll develop a pretty good understanding of what's meant to be on-camera and what you can safely ignore.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:33
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I've found that, if the interviewer and/or interviewee are at all good at what they do, they'll speak louder and clearer for the actual questions and answers. Ironically, the projects I've worked on that have had the most consistent professionals on them have been the glut of those "Lets go film out in the middle of the woods at night" shows that have become increasingly popular over the past, what, 6 years? They also tend to be the funniest interviews with the most amicable people. Then you've got projects where the interviewee is sitting 10 miles away from the microphone and your ears keep getting blown out by the interviewee who insists on talking and laughing over the interviewer so it becomes a maze of [OVERLAP]. Shima Honnou fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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Jun 10, 2014 05:46
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Two questions about invoices. 1) What do I do when I get enough little short files to fill up one sample invoice? Make it two pages? Send it immediately? 2) And for how cost is calculated, it's rounded to the minute, where, anything 31 sec or longer counts as 1 minute, anything 30 sec or below counts as 0. Do I have that right?
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Jun 10, 2014 17:05
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You can keep inserting rows into Excel to make it longer. You got it on pricing.
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Jun 10, 2014 17:26
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Unless the file is literally only 27 seconds. Then you just charge for a full minute (obviously).
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Jun 10, 2014 17:27
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Do you just keep tacking onto a single invoice? I thought they wanted them to print on a single page so you have a limit eventually? E: Something I've learned doing this job: it literally does not matter from what walk of life, what part of the country, or even what country you originally came from, if you speak English, you probably use the phrases 'you know' and 'like' pretty much in between every single thought that you speak. You probably also say 'I/he was like/be like' or whatever else when you're about to say a quote. Shima Honnou fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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Jun 10, 2014 17:40
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I have no idea what they want. I've submitted pretty good sized invoices before though. Anyone getting rush work? I haven't gotten a rush notice in ages.
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Jun 10, 2014 18:59
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Spartan421 posted:I have no idea what they want. I've submitted pretty good sized invoices before though. I haven't seen a lot of notices I'll be honest, and submissions isn't showing a lot. I concur on the invoice size, seriously, just keep whacking on rows, she'll let you know if it's no good.
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Jun 10, 2014 19:58
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How much are you folks able to make and what is your effective hourly income?
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Nitrousoxide posted:How much are you folks able to make and what is your effective hourly income? Last week I made $304.50 and I'm roughly in line to make similar or even more this week depending on how consistent and long the files are over the next three days. Mind you, last week was actually slow, with three days wherein I wasn't assigned any files, and it still came out to the highest check I've gotten thus far. I'll round that to $300 and then divide it by 5 days, 8 hours (40 hour work week): $7.50 effective hourly income. The highest estimate DT admits to is $600 a week ($15/hour effective), but I'm still new enough that I don't request nearly enough footage for that. According to my records, I got that $304.50 by transcribing around 406 minutes of footage, at a consistent pay rate of $0.75 per rounded (Up or down, depending on exactly length; see a few posts above) minute. Note that taxes don't come out of a DT check; I'm technically a self-employed contractor, not an employee, so I set aside what would normally come out from taxes. The info I was able to dig up suggests that the tax rate for self-employment/contractors is just above 15%, so I've been setting aside around 16% of each check I've received. EDIT: Seems I've just got a "raise", I've been hooked to a project that pays 80 cents per minute instead of 70 or 75. Woo! And it's clean verbatim so I don't have to do the stutter nightmare like I just had to earlier today! Shima Honnou fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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