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yarg28 · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 11:10 am Post subject: digital work station for copy

to date ive only used a monitor when reading copy for auditions. As I learn and grow through coaching and experience, it's becoming clear that, for me, I'd like to be able to mark copy. Thing is, i hate paper. Anybody know of or use some sort of tablet or monitor that can be written on with a pen to mark copy and then save the file as an image or something so that it can be referenced later?

Thanks

gary

Shiromi · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 12:34 pm Post subject:

I like to use an iPad for my audiobooks. I have an a Hobo Tounge

called iAnnotate which lets me mark up the copy, highlight, notations, even audio notations. Maybe that's worth looking in to?

paulstefano · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:05 pm Post subject:

Surface or Surface Pro. If you're not a "Mac Guy" and record on Windows, a Surface 3 could be your all in one solution. It has a Core M processor and an SSD so it's completely silent. You could split windows, with the DAW on 1 side, and the Copy on the other, with the ability to mark it with the built in Pen.

I wanted to go this route myself, but just went all in with Mac so I could use Twisted Wave and get some custom stacks built by George.
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yarg28 · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:13 pm Post subject:

thanks for ipad a Hobo Tounge

info, Shiromi.

And Paul, I actually have a surface pro3. I was really excited about using it but I will tell you that there is definitely a fan or something inside it that randomly comes on that is LOUD. I'm using it right now to respond and its quiet as a frog fart. But I got it in my studio one day and it was like..RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Pretty disappointed.

paulstefano · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:16 pm Post subject:

The Pro does have a fan. The Surface 3 (Which in previous generations was called RT) does not. They stripped out the crazy restrictions on the RT version of the software so it runs all Windows 10 programs now.

The only real difference now is the memory and processor speed.

You probably could flip your's and buy a Surface 3 with cash leftover
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paulstefano · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:18 pm Post subject:

I can tell you I used an Asus Transformer with the exact same configuration in my booth for a while and it was dead silent. Had it right under the microphone all the time.

It's not the most powerful processor but it got the job done.
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yarg28 · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:24 pm Post subject:

got ya. thanks for info. MAybe i'll just buy another surface Smile

kind of attached to my pro3

paulstefano · Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:26 pm Post subject:

Read this if you want more information. This is what gave me the idea.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/surface-3-in-the-sound-booth-silence-is-truly-golden/
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Jason Huggins · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:26 pm Post subject:

I do all my copy marking via a keyboard on the document on monitor in the booth. It is mirrored from a my second monitor on the computer and I just have a second bluetooth keyboard/trackpad. I also convert all copy to a word doc so I can edit quickly. I just can't handle the tiny screen. I tried an iPad and the screen was just too small.

paulstefano · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:44 pm Post subject:

Jason,

What do you mean "copy marking via a keyboard"? I think the spirit of the original question was the best way to make physical marks, that aren't easily mimicked on the keyboard. Like for instance, a line curved up, to indicate a gentle rise in pitch, etc. You can do those on tablets that take a stylus, like the Surface.To some extent, the Ipad too with a capacitive stylus but it's not as accurate.

Have you developed your own shorthand on the keyboard?
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vkuehn · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:46 pm Post subject:

I'm having to guess here, but it seems to me that some people are offering ways to mark a script for radio commercials and other "short form" scripts, while others are offering ways to mark a script for long form scripts like audio books and e-learning.

I wanted a 12-inch screen tablet but that is the point (so far) where the price goes into outer orbit. But I found a 10-inch tablet at a very attractive price. I find that if in WORD I create a document with very narrow margins, use 21 point font in my favorite WITH SERIFs bold font, the script becomes a reasonable read on the 10 inch tablet. (On screen that ends up the size of 12 point font on paper.) And by formatting in WORD for a legal size print page, it fills the screen from top to bottom, from side to side. (That holds true on my particular Android tablet... in looking at some Apple devices I can see that the height/width aspect ratio is different.)

I do not let WORD automatically paginate the script. I read through and make sure the page break comes at a logical point*** in the script. If your script is for a 30 or 40 minute chapter in a book, if you could insert a change, a correction, a pronunciation hint using WORD, you would not want WORD suddenly going through resetting the page breaks you so carefully and tediously preset.

*** "logical point" is like beauty... it is in the eye of the beholder a.k.a. the narrator who is attempting to convey to logic to the listener.

Rick Riley · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 4:11 pm Post subject:

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I sure hope you got a discount for the missing keys down the middle. Smile

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Lee Gordon · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 1:52 am Post subject:

yarg28 · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 1:02 pm Post subject:

thanks for all of the feedback/tips.