Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Hard-to-price subtitling/translation job
Poster: Joakim Braun
Post title: But
[quote]Michael Wetzel wrote:
(...) it might make sense to just hire a professional transcriptionist for that part of the work (will do a better job faster for less money).[/quote]
High-quality subtitling has gone out of fashion in the general $0.01 trend. I'd be surprised if the budget leaves room for hiring a for a transcriber. And anyway half the time at least is spent splitting and editing the text down to the pithy essence that can be displayed in the time available for each subtitle. Paying extra for a full transcription is probably not really worth it.
I think you're better off translating as you go.
1 hour for 10 minutes video is about right.
[Edited at 2015-10-15 06:50 GMT]
Topic: Hard-to-price subtitling/translation job
Poster: Joakim Braun
Post title: But
[quote]Michael Wetzel wrote:
(...) it might make sense to just hire a professional transcriptionist for that part of the work (will do a better job faster for less money).[/quote]
High-quality subtitling has gone out of fashion in the general $0.01 trend. I'd be surprised if the budget leaves room for hiring a for a transcriber. And anyway half the time at least is spent splitting and editing the text down to the pithy essence that can be displayed in the time available for each subtitle. Paying extra for a full transcription is probably not really worth it.
I think you're better off translating as you go.
1 hour for 10 minutes video is about right.
[Edited at 2015-10-15 06:50 GMT]
