Captions

Posted By: gdc on 2008-03-10
In Reply to: Typing Captions for TV&Movies - type

Captions are done with the use of stenograph machines using a shorthand, the same as court reporters use. I am currently using my steno machine to do medical transcription, which makes me a pretty good living. To do captioning real-time you have to write almost perfectly, which I don't, so I would never apply for such a job, but for me where I can go back and edit if necessary it works out just fine.

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Typing Captions for TV&Movies - type
- Captions - gdc
- I don't know how they do this, I always - KT
  - They use a stenomachine. - Much faster to transcribe with. nm
  - Above post is probably closest to the truth. - nm
    - I considered this as a career a while back... - QAer
- Real-Time Captioners - smurf
- Post makes no sense. They need the closed - caption BEFORFE you see it on TV. nm
  - ha ha...don't you look silly now - trying to get someone else
    - So when you see CC on tv, do U think someone - at their home is typing & it goes right to ur TV?
      - What about live television? - There are times when live captioning is need. nm
      - Apparently so...since that what the company that's hiring - trying to get someone else
        I am not worked up. Prove to me that as you - type it appears on my TV. Wont work that way.
        Website inside - Live captioning
        Link doesnt say if this can be done at home. - nm
        No, you said to prove that as you were watching, - someone was typing.
        I am not the prove it poster. Just want to know - if this can also be done at home. nm
        Yes, it says remote. - mt
        Btw, it's easy for me to be humble cause I am - always right. nm
        Hmmmm....not this time. nm - mt
        Yes, this time and EVERY time. I am also - humble. nm
        Where are you right on this? Captioning is - mt

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closed captions!
I put the TV on mute, but with closed captions on while I type. I hear with my ears, but read the tv with my eyes. I amaze people with this - and have been doing it for a decade!

Yes, but have to mute it and put captions on. nm
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I bought a TV. I keep it muted, but keep the captions on (sm)
That helped me stay in the chair and produce extra. Something about even being able to look over every now and then and see something happening helped tons.

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Does anyone here type captions? I want to know more about this, as I was watching TV w the captions on and wondering who types the words. I wonder if you just get to watch TV and type what you hear all day long...that would be so sweet.