Trans-ylvania

The topic of transcription came up on several forums recently, so I thought I’d share the peanut gallery’s wisdom on the subject. If you don’t think you need transcriptions, think again. With the recent FCC rules, all TV programs need closed-captioning, and unless you’re doing scripted drama, you’ll need transcriptions for the closed-captioner. It’s also handy to have as an editor when you’re trying to “Frankenstein” a soundbite together and you’re looking for the sentence-ending word with an “S” at the end or something like that. Sometimes if I’m trying to end a speaker’s thought in mid-sentence, I do a search for the same ending word with a period after it. Splice them together and you’ve got an elegant ending to an otherwise choppy sounding sentence. If you’ve got a transcription to search, doing these kinds of tasks is much, much easier.

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