July-August 2009

Captions vs transcriptions

Yesterday I made a fairly standard approach to a potential client, asking whether they’d be interested in subtitles or captions for their video content. We’re talking about an organisation set up by the UK government, with many dozens of videos on their site, so I figured maybe they’d be interested. At worst I’d get one of the usual reasons for not wanting to talk to me – worldwide recession, not a priority, yada yada yada. But no, this time I heard a new one.

Interviews_Happen

Ian Aspin and Erin Maguire were roaming around at Shift_Happens 2.0, interviewing and filming the unwary. They were kind enough to point their camera in my direction for a while.

Press gang

Written by Rob Colling Monday, 27 July 2009 14:12

We’ve been in the press a fair bit recently, which is always exciting.