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Lee Gordon
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So I sez to the client, "Can I put these tags in one file, or do you need them in individual files?"
I specifically used the word "need" rather than "want." Naturally, he writes back and sez, "Separate files would be fantastic."
And that's how I spent a couple of hours creating 184 individual "800 Number" tags. 
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heyguido
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Open mouth, insert foot.....
Or, then again....
Open cheeks, insert head. 
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Velfin
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Lee, I feel your pain. I've done exactly the same thing!
With exactly the same result.
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Word2Wav
Might have been useful?
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| Dayo wrote: | | Word2Wav might have been useful? |
Poor Lee. But, had he known ahead of time, yes.
Maybe he'll consider looking into W2W for the future... or, one of the things I like about Adobe Audition is the ability to place markers around (and identify) segments that will later easily and quickly export as separate files. This means, should there be revisions later, the markers are easily dragged to a new location to accommodate the change.
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juliaknippen
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I'm curious to know what the "right" way to handle this would have been. Simply sending the client one file with all the tags and hoping for the best? Without asking first?
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Bish
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| juliaknippen wrote: | | Simply sending the client one file with all the tags and hoping for the best? Without asking first? |
If there has been no discussion, then I think this is a good approach. The client may have been planning to do it himself anyway... or may not have even thought about it and request the additional work... which may be a value-add to be charged.
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Bruce
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I've learned to say, "I'll send you the file" no matter how many different bits there are, hoping they don't want my mad slice and dice skillz.
On the other hand I did a video game session (phone patch) in which I only had about 15 lines and short speeches. The director and producers had much conversation between the takes making for a 35 minute long recording with very little me in it. The director said just send the entire file. Sorry, but I like editors too much. I cut out all the silence and crap and sent a 6 minute long file instead.
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Lee Gordon
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| juliaknippen wrote: | | Simply sending the client one file with all the tags and hoping for the best? Without asking first? |
The last time I did a similar project for this client there were only 25 tags and that's exactly what I did. I probably could have gotten away with doing the same thing this time, but I had to open my big, fat mouth.
It's not so bad, really because, after all, it's all about providing good service to the client.
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word2wav is worth every penny.
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juliaknippen
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| Lee Gordon wrote: | | juliaknippen wrote: | | Simply sending the client one file with all the tags and hoping for the best? Without asking first? |
The last time I did a similar project for this client there were only 25 tags and that's exactly what I did. I probably could have gotten away with doing the same thing this time, but I had to open my big, fat mouth.
It's not so bad, really because, after all, it's all about providing good service to the client. |
Right, that's what I was wondering. Sure, it's more work for you, but if it's just a little extra work and makes the client extra happy, you might get the next job over someone else 
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ConnieTerwilliger
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I have Vox Studio as well as Word2WAV and it has a slicer feature. Just leave one clean take of each tag and a couple seconds of silence between them and it will cut them up and name the automatically after the fact.
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