Subtitling Studio

[Mark Suszko]

The closed-captioning forum is a great palce to post this question.

[Walter Biscardi]

Make it easy on yourself and contact CaptionMax. Great folks, great prices. Send everything to them and mark it up a little bit so you get something out of it.

You will spend all of about 20 minutes on this and you’re free to go off and do another job while those folks take care of you.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media

“Foul Water, Fiery Serpent” Winner, Best Documentary, LA Reel Film Festival.

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[David Sacca]

Hi Walter

Thanks for the advice, the problem is we’re based in the UK and dealing with Digibeta NTSC/Pal, beta sp ntsc, dv cam. The company we’re pitching the service to is only down the road so we’re boasting the reduced cost of p&p.

The aim really is to finance a wider service using this subtitling service as a starter, eventually we want to provide full video editing services to local businesses. There’s a big demand for it out here but I’m trying to piece together the bare necessities for the studio which will accommodate an expansion later in the game into other services.

So far I’ve got the requirements as:

Mac
Monitors
Software (avid/fcp)
Some form of video i/o
Some form of tape deck
Some form of clock ref

The ‘some form’ of are what I really want some advice on, the only real suggestion I have so far is to buy the blackmagic multibridge as the video i/o but I’m open to looking at alternatives.

Also if there’s anything else that anyone knows I need I’d be grateful if they could let me know.

Thanks very much!

Dave

[Rick Goldman]

Dave,

Do you have the video equipment and just need subtitling software or do you need everything? Do you need to provide translations?

[David Sacca]

Hi Rick

At the moment I’ve got no equipment whatsoever so I’m completely starting from scratch. The subtitles will be delivered with the footage, they just need placing at timecode which will also be supplied.

Cheers

[Rick Goldman]

Dave,
Why don’t you give me a call at 818-660-5553, when you have a chance. I think it would be easier to get an idea of what you’ll be needing.

Cheers back.

Rick

[David Sacca]

Hi Rick, sorry but I’m based in the UK. Can’t really budget for calls to the states.

[Rick Goldman]

Dave,

You might want to contact Bartho Kriek
at https://www.subtitlingworldwide.com/index.html

He’s a good guy (much closer to your time zone) who will give you good advice.

Best,

Rick

[Terry Mikkelsen]

Wow! You are asking for advice which should cost you hundreds of dollars. Someone is willing to help you out and you won’t spend a few bucks on a phone call?

How do you intend to get all of this equipment that you need? Are you going to start another post asking for free equipment? Hopefully your donated equipment will come with free shipping too.

Tech-T Productions
http://www.technical-t.com

[David Sacca]

Thanks Rick, I really appreciate your help. I’ll get in touch with Bartho. I don’t suppose you’re on skype by any chance?