The reason that I am writing this article is to introduce to you a professional Native Cambodian who is very skillful in the area of video production, filming in the context TV broadcasting in Cambodia. He also can do translation between Egnlish and Khmer language. Beside that he also can transcribe audio or video into these two languages as requested by the client.
Why should you hire a professional?
When talking about creating captions or subtitles for your video, documentary film, or movies; you don’t want to entrust your work to a no experience or someone with little knowledge in this industry. It is too much of the investment to sacrifice its quality if anything would go wrong. That is why choosing the right person to work on your project is very crucial.
What are some of the benefit of Subtitles or Captions?
As you are looking for someone to help you creating subtitles or captions for your videos, then I don’t have to explain the term to you. But why not look at some of the benefits why this task is important.
For reviewers or those who watch your film or video, probably, they don’t really know but one thing they know for sure is they enjoy the time spend on it and they know what is going on from the start to an end, especially for the second language learners.
The benefits are vary both for human who is the target audience and the search engine to understand what you are saying in the conversation in order to be able to response to the queries of those who search for specific terms.
- Closed Captions (CC) where you can turn on/off on YouTube, Facebook, online learning platforms and other website portal can help users to engage better and understand the context that is talking about in the video.
- It helps to rank the video higher in Search Engine (SE) by helping to optimized it for Google, Bing and so on. You have only 10 spots on the first page of the SE, so you need to work on it wisely in order to help your video appear in front of the users where you are targeted otherwise this piece of content will be thrown into the bottom of the ocean of search engines mystery, I would say.
- Keep the viewers paying full attention into your video from the beginning to an end even though they do not have a sound on. Because they can read it from the text showing at the lower third of the screen where subtitles supposed to be located in.
- It is good for those who can only read but cannot hear or watch it by just seeing the video in action plus text in certain circumstances.
- If you watch the film or video from the screen in public areas or on the bus, then subtitles really a huge help to bring you through the different scenes of the story.
How can you hire this person?
Without wasting time any further, you can hire someone to create Khmer Subtitles for your video project at the comfort of your home or office. You may wondering how, but the answer is because of the technology and the internet connection with the help from an online platform now this freelancer can assist you the get the work done to beat your deadline.
No matter where you are from, you can work with a freelancer who knows what need to be done. Just make sure you communicate your message and providing clear instruction to tick the clock for this assigned project.
What will the workflow be like?
Here, you do not have to worry about the workflow as long as you know what kind of file required to work on your project then I am sure he can help you getting the job done. As a senior editor, he can manage to work on multi type of software to ensure the best result and timely delivery.
The industry standard format is .SRT files, but you can always ask for a plain text (.txt), document (.doc or .docx), HTLM, XML etc.
Is the rate expensive?
I would say, the rate is very competitive in the market to hire a professional to work on this kind of project. It could start as low as $10 or more depending on the length of your video.
The file can be separated or long forms of media for your production purposes. Basically speaking, whatever files or number of minutes you may have, this freelancer can accommodate it.