The perfect video transcription? | The Coffeehouse

Loadsgood
What is your answer?

Video transcriptions have been on a few threads lately so I thought I would help out those who wanted them and make some. But there are two parts of me that are fighting each other, one says I should do the transcriptions with the ahs, ums, and the pauses/stuff ups because it is genuine. But the other part says that I should make transcriptions that make for a better reading experience without any of the ums and pauses.

So I wanted to know, which is better, having a partially hard time reading/understanding what the speaker was saying because of the ums and ahs just to have a genuine experience. Or having a better reading experience without any ums or ahs, but knowing that it isn't an exact copy of what they said?

Vote 1# Original pure experience! Vote 1# Better reading experience!
Loadsgood.

dotnetjunkie

My vote goes to better reading experience, because transcripts are used a lot as an ALTERNATIVE to watching the video. They should not be subtitles IMO.

Michael Griffiths
Fatalism.

Go with the better reading experience.

Awesome, though, if you have time Smiley

mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.

I say...

#3...Whatever's easier for Loadsgood. Smiley

mVPstar

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

I did a couple of transcripts already, and found myself doing it both ways. I started out preserving the ums, until I saw that they really got in the way.

I vote for better reading experience!

JChung2006

Better reading experience.

Loadsgood
What is your answer?

Yeah I've basically been doing what Minh said, keeping all the ums and ahs in there. But now they just seem like a waste of time. Plus it's like writting a book, you don't write um and ah where ever you got writer's block.

Thanks mVPStar, it is easier for me to type it without the ahs in there because I don't have to continually play parts of the video where I'm not sure on whether the 'um' I just heard was an 'ah' or a 'so'. Plus, with all the stuff ups some of them do, it makes them sound like a kid Wink

Here's my first C9 video transcript: Jason Flaks - What is Windows Media Connect?

I had to turn up the volume to maximum on all settings to hear Scoble when he last spoke Mad

I tried to get everything as correct as I possibly could, anyone with corrections I'd be happy to see them put on Smiley

Scoble, can you please speak up and be at least partially in front of the camera (but not in view) so i can hear you better? Also, is it Scoble who did this video, I haven't really watched many of these videos due to my internet connection and don't know whether that's Scoble's voice or not...

I'll be doing more soon,
Loadsgood.

Dr Good
Machine at the wheel

Here is a bit of a breakdown as to the good vs. bad of what should be contained in a video transcription from an academic point of view i.e. what is referred to in the biz as strict verbatim transcription (umms and errs) and the making sense type of video transcription. A review of pros and cons from this London UK transcription service as to why you might want either type (of type- oh the pun)

Basically ... not putting in the ums results in a loss in how things are communicated "I really think your ... ummm... dress is great" vs. "I really think your dress is great"

great
later

Dr Good

esoteric
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Can't you just make them or nest them in elements and then make two versions. Then you can easily make a low-fi version from that.