transcribing from video

[Kimberley Shaw]

Hello Shane:
point taken! I'll try to have more patience as practicing
transcription continues.
And captioners do indeed impressive and often thankless work.
-- Kim from Boston

On 1/1/07, Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa <shane.gilchrist.oheorpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kim,
>
> u ll have to use your memory to develop a 'mind-mapping' technique
>
> can be annoyed at first - its the same with subtitle makers - they
> have to go thru stuff over and over to get the words in right.
>
> Shane
>
> On 01/01/07, James Shepard-Kegl, Esq. <kegl at maine.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Kimberley,
> >
> >  Imagine Gutenburg creating a page block by block -- very time consuming.
> > But once done, thousands (or today, millions) of copies can be made in
> short
> > order.
> >
> >  Two words of advice:
> >  1) If you don't sign, get a signer to assist you.  (You would not want to
> > confuse an involuntary twitch with a grammatical marker.)
> >  2) The process becomes easier with practice (and a decent glossary file).
> > But, it is still labor intensive, so plan your time accordingly.
> >
> >  -- James
> >
> >
> >  on 1/1/07 12:53 AM, Kimberley Shaw at skifoot at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello all:
> >  and a very happy New Year to you all!
> >  Val, I only get more and more impressed by the day by the things you have
> > done! I have been trying to transcribe a poem of Ella Mae Lentz ("Travels
> > with Malz"), and it has become an exercise in frustration.As an ASL
> student
> > who has just been placed into a 2nd-year ASL class at a univiersity level,
> I
> > am trying to figure out why it is being so diffficult to simply write down
> > sentence by sentence from the VHS (no, the video her poem is on has never
> > been released to DVD, alas), and I am wondering how on earth you were able
> > to transcribe from video when you were not yet a signer.
> >  Was it the dance training?
> >  Have all of you other signwriters got some special wisdom to share with
> me?
> >  Or just useful tips?
> >  You don't even want to know how many times I have had to hit "pause" and
> > "rewind" just to get the first sentence down on paper.
> >  All the best,
> >  Kim from Boston
> >
> >
> >
>
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