Documentary transcription officially falls under the category of media transcription and is a specialized form of transcription that deals mainly with the entertainment industry on the average. Not only does it involve the transcription of documentaries. It also handles a variety of transcribing that is required from movie transcription to broadcast transcription to video transcription that is time coded to many more.
Documentary transcription can be very detailed in a number of ways and it requires someone who knows not only a whole lot about the specific industry in question. But someone who can get the job done as accurately as possible from start to finish. This is something that is paramount as this industry is specialized just as much as legal or medicine is in their own ways.
In spite of current economic times, the entertainment industry is something that is still growing, and because of this fact. There is a constant and growing need for transcriptionists who know exactly how to deal with the special communications that do make up this very fascinating professional world.
This form of transcription does require that someone have the knowledge and the expertise to know certain terms that are within the entertainment industry. They must be able to research these terms in depth and also to be able to do time-coding for documentary transcripts. Time-coding a documentary transcript requires an expert who knows exactly what they are doing to get it done properly.
What is time-coding? It is no other than the process of numeric kind of codes that are generated and added to a transcript with the assistance of a timing system. The time-code specifically for video and film is called SMPTE time code. It is used widely for different purposes that range from synchronization to logging to identification of material that is in recorded media format. Therefore, when a documentary transcript is time-coded, it is performed only by a qualified professional that knows how to time code it appropriately.
The transcription involved with documentaries does employ the use of time-coding in a number of instances. This sort of transcript is known as being SMPTE transcripts or time-coded transcripts specifically. Usually, the time code is inserted right at the opening of each answer, and for thirty seconds after the answer is displayed. The time code is visible and timestamps the material.
Documentaries, along with news footage, and reality TV are all a big part of the entertainment medium for a number of reasons. This is because they have special aspects to them and one of the most important of these aspects is that they are constantly being done over in various multi-lingual formats. Something that is done to transfer the narration of what is going on via any captioning or subtitles. Therefore, transcription of documentaries must be done with precision, if only to preserve what the story is all about from start to finish.
