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robert jadah
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 Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject: Audio Fits |
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So you've got a voiceover job: four minutes' narrative over a European instructional video.
No prob, right? They send the script with both the original Spanish and the translated copy. They send the video. You watch and listen twice; you make some notes.
An hour's job, right? No prob.
You toss it all onto your ProTools (which - ominously - begins to tremble and quake).
You orate.
Then you move pieces around to fit the images, but ProTools is freezing up alarmingly often. Then you realize that the Spanish voiceover is saying much, much more than the Spanish script has him saying. You notice your script has one paragraph where the original has five. You worry that while you're narrating the part about "just rinse under running water and it's as good as new" at precisely the correct time-mark, the video is showing an arid desert.
Four minutes' talk.
Four hours' frustration.
(But four weeks of Moosehead; so what the heck?)
Just sharing. |
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Jowillie
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Brett Mason
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ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE IN THE RIGHT TIME ZONE???????
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robert jadah
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Jowillie wrote: | You orate.
Let's conjugate that verb.
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No prob:
I orate
You or-nine
He or-tens
She or-elevens
We or-twelve
You or-thirteen
They are-123.com
Easy! |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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LOL!!!!!!
Amo, Amas, Amat!!!!
Liz
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bobsouer
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| robert jadah wrote: |
I orate
You or-nine
He or-tens... |
Robert,
Which reminds me of the old joke: Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 789. 
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Andy_Quiñones
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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I've got to admit, one thing I never expected from this forum was the amount of original humor that "cleanses the gut" every now and then... you guys are hilarious or mad or both and I'm loving every second--I feel like I have finally found my "species" so the immediate question is, is are we going to heaven or what?
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Andy,
"No, this is Iowa." (quote from "Field of Dreams")
To some it may seem like heaven, to others, well - it IS the VO-BB!
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I know these forays into our humor base drives some people nuts! (you know who you are, and I love you. You know that, too.)
I like to think of this place as a country store with barrels and rocking chairs to sit on and a potbellied stove that keeps things warm in the winter. And as folks drop by, they share and converse and solve problems and enjoy each other's company.
When a member here has a real issue, it's the polite thing to not go too far afield, but I think for the most part that we end up back on track.
Life is Grand.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject: Ahhhh |
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I can hear the creak of the rocking chairs....
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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Yes it's true we can get off the topic but then someone makes a food reference, and soon were back on track. Oh excuse me it's time for a midnight snack.
cheers,
Chrissy |
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Hasser
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe a sam-wich in Cam-bridge?
With some Frank-fries? 
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Bruce
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:02 am Post subject: |
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All this tomfoolery reminds me of the old one, "Why do elephants wear tennies?"
"Because nineies are too small and elevenies are too big."
Pass me a cracker will ya Robert? Much obliged.
B
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