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Capital IQ? - looking

Posted: Jul 13, 2010

Anyone have any experience as a transcriptionist/scopist for them or know anything about them? (I know, not medical transcription, but like a lot of us, I'm looking for other transcription work to make ends meet).

TIA!

Scopist - Drea

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Yes, this is part of the field of captionist that I'm looking into. This is close caption transcription of TV news and TV programs. Most TV stations have captionists for their live broadcast news and most TV shows now have CC. This is done remotely. Also included is subtitling, dubbing which is done for movies.These people need transcriptionists with a command of the English language. And they're willing to pay for it! Google it.

Actually, no (but thanks) - looking

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Actually Capital IQ is a division of S&P that does financial transcription, quarterly meetings and such.

Scopist is different than captionist which is also different than transcriptionist (although more subtly) and from entertainment transcriptionist, which is more what you're talking about, I think.

:)

Captioners... - anon

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This is from CNN Money web site. Sounds good until you see the part that says that it's about $18,000 in equipment you have to purchase to do it from home!! Could that be a typo?

Broadcast captioners: Those real-time captions you see on the screen of live television programs, such as a news shows, are provided by broadcast captioners.

Most typically, they might earn $50-to-$100 for every programming hour they caption and they work for companies hired by networks to provide the captioning, said Kathy DiLorenzo, director of reporter and captioner relations at VITAC, a captioning company.

Top captioners at VITAC earn between $60,000 and $120,000 a year with benefits, DiLorenzo said.

But to make that $120,000 a year, an employee might caption 30-to-40 hours of programs a week, which does not include the preparation time they need to make sure their software and equipment are ready to handle the content of a broadcast.

As with court reporters, the ability to concentrate and the need for physical stamina is key to provide real-time captions for that many hours of live television.

Unlike court reporters, though, captioners don't need to be on-site if they have the proper equipment at home, which is necessary if you're an independent contractor. If you do work independently, you'll probably need to invest about $18,000 to get the right computers and software, DiLorenzo said.

Typically, people wishing to become broadcast captioners will need at least three years of full-time education, unless they're already court reporters, in which case they might need a year of retraining, DiLorenzo said.

captionist - Drea

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I'm still doing the research on this, but my information so far tells me that live captionists use the steno machine, but off-line captionists do captioning for TV programs, etc and this is not done live and not done with the steno machine. Although I'm not totally opposed to going back to school to learn steno machine, I'm thinking that off-line captioning might be the place to start.

Yes, off-line is the place to start. But...Capital IQ? - looking

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I've been doing a bit of that already. $ varies but it's a nice chance from MT.

But...does anyone know anything about Capital IQ?

:) :)

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