6THINGS TO KNOWabout Multimedia Localization

01VIDEO SAYS MORE

“a picture is worth a 1000 words”

Video provides businesses with a valuableway of engaging with prospects and clients.

Today, we aremore likely to

view video than read text.

MAKE A DECISIONGet it right the first time.

2Audio or just subtitle content

Voice talents

Format and technicalrequirements

TIME COSTScene-synched takes time and ….03

money.

audio for scene-synched is

usually about 25% moreexpensive than for cold

recording, due to moretime needed to fit audio

with what is happening onscreen.

SET-UP COST& TASK

04Complex multimedia projects involvemore studio tasks.

audio engineers

voicetalents

language directors

files & linguistic QA

audio processing

& fixes

BE PREPAREDBefore translation and studio work begins,provide:

05style guidelines

scripts

pronunciation guidelines

AVOID REWORK06Bundle jobs for recording to amortize the set-up and tear-down costs of the studio.