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Clients can be silly, too
I found a job posting on Upwork, which reads, in its entirety:
We here at old McDonald translation, seek to employ a young Caucasian.
tall, small, smart, dumb-and like to have a lot of fun!
must be willing to rhyme each sentence, to make it as our young apprentice.
I doubt it's serious, but figured it couldn't hurt to apply, thusly:
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Dubbing Dutch
We had a fun project this past week that went very well; the Utrecht-based client (south of Amsterdam) was thrilled. Cat Lady did the casting and I served as director for a three-minute short promoting Customer Drive, a customer service business game. The original video was presented entirely in Dutch; our task was to dub everything into English ( Read more... ) -
Noise Reduction in Audacity
How to reduce noise in Audacity, i.e., silence the parts that should be silent:
The problem is that, no matter how much you try to remove noise sources, some will still creep into your recordings. e.g.,
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Back from Baltimore
Wednesday we left our gorgeous AirBnB home in Cockeysville, MD, picked up Sara from the light rail in Timonium, MD, joined mortonfox for a meal in Wilmington, DE, dropped Sara in Philadelphia, PA, then continued through mild construction and traffic for a few more hours before we finally got home. It was great to connect with both of them ( Read more... ) -
Silliness
We three cans,
of Tomato Sauce are,
Spending Christmas,
in-n-n a bar.
Roasting, soaking,
flavor-cloaking....
We are the cans that are....rrrrr.....
Sauce for Pasta,
Sauce for dips!
Sauce for oddly-textured chips.
Sauce for me, and
sauce for you.
It's tomato sauce,
you'll put in stew!
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You win some, you lose some
Two unrelated clients both cancelled large-ish jobs mid-stream in the last week; very frustrating. Not sure I'll get paid for work performed already. Yeah, it's all part of the game, but two of these back-to-back sort-of smarts, to the tune of about $600 total ( Read more... ) -
Target of (minus) One?
Oh, speaking of voice jobs, I'd meant to add that I saw an ad on Wunderground for the Docker course on Udemy that I had recorded a while back, (below). Kind of funny, since I'm the least likely person to purchase said course. :-)
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Business begets business
I got three more voice acting jobs since I last posted, with another one in the wings. I've become pretty convinced that the algorithm that Upwork uses to present job applicants to potential clients takes into account a factor of "what have you done for me lately?". It's clearly not a coincidence that the more business I get from them, the more ( Read more... ) -
Lesson Learned
For today's job, the client's not too concerned about the exact script, so I thought it would be more efficient to "wing it", and simply recorded my thoughts on-the-fly. I was wrong. It cost me an extra hour or so that way. For me, at least, it seems that it's better to write the script completely first, and then record it. Lesson learned. -
Screen Capture
The rush job involves capturing my browser screen for a video. After years of happily using (and promoting) the free CamStudio software, it had started getting buggier and buggier, to the point of not working at all, and newer versions involuntarily installed adware and malware (as per Kaspersky), so it was high time to find a replacement ( Read more... )