Working From Client Videos
I’ve got a client who is doing a series of fairly short videos full of management tips, techniques, etc. They are used in her organization and we’re using them as the basis of a book. If we do this right, we’ll have two products to sell - the book and the video set.
Writing from videos, however, isn’t a cinch. Although it can help to see her talk and hear her voice, and she’s pretty good about leaving out all the umms and ahhhs and yaknows so many people use in speech, the spoken word is still a long way from the written word. It can get tedious either transcribing (I usually require clients to pay someone else for transcription and deliver me the word files) or just going over the video a number of times to capture what’s going on.
Up to now I’ve only used author videos as a way to get an overview of the book I’m to ghostwrite, and most often on dvd. These are being sent to me via email. I got three earlier this week and watched the first two, which, it turned out I had already seen. I didn’t think to check the third one, which was new until today, when I wanted to use it to write from. Of course, it won’t load.
The client’s IT department will get me fixed up I’m sure, but it is a bit of a hassle. Of course, I do have other things to write.
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