help with recording off line please...sm
Posted By: DCMT on 2005-12-13
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Okay dating myself, but many eons ago when I worked for YOG we recorded the work off line onto a hand-held microrecorder and then used a regular old transcriber to do the work. I know I had a grey and a black cord and the only other thing I can find is my index card telling me that I dial in on my Dictaphone...black cord is in the ear phone and grey cord is in the microphone...that is it.
I now need to record work off line for a few weeks and can not find my cords (was 8 years ago) or how I did this.
Does anyone else record off line onto a tape to do at a later time or some place else? I really am at a loss and the one guy at Radio Shack was not much help either...
ANY HELP REALLY APPRECIATED
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A standard 65-character line usually consists of 65 characters with spaces unless, of course, the employer does not pay for spaces and then it would be 65-characters without spaces.
Anything on the line makes up a line even if just one letter or number. Every line of print is a
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1) do you have a contract stating line counting and line rate,sm
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that should be "up .02/line" NOT up "to" .02/line. geez. nm
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