welcome to my beginners tutorial of rev
welcome if you've just been accepted
into the rev captioning program it can
seem a little difficult at first when
you're starting out but it's actually
super easy to use this dashboard here
this is where you will be doing all of
your work you will be doing your
captioning and your syncing all in this
program here which is on the website
itself so you don't have to download
anything alright so when you're starting
off the first thing you're going to do
is press play you have two different
options you can go with your mouse and
scroll down to this play button and
press play but also as you can see here
in the red box it says tab so if you
press tab laugh on your keyboard that
will start and stop it now what you will
realize as you begin to caption is that
you will have to go back a lot in order
to understand what the person is saying
if you're not typing as fast as someone
is speaking or if you don't understand a
word you have two options you can scroll
this forward or back this cursor your
cursor right here but that is kind of
time-consuming so what I do and at what
I recommend you do is to press tab to
start last Mother's Day Erica didn't get
press pause again or sorry press tab
again to pause and what you do to rewind
or to go back two seconds is you will
hold down shift so press down shift on
your keyboard and press tab once to go
back two seconds twice to go back for
seconds as many times as you want but it
will go back in to second increments
okay so I'm gonna go back for seconds
hold down shift press tab once or twice
to go back to or four seconds back back
to back for as you can see and that is
something you'll be doing a lot alright
let's go back to the beginning so I'm
just going to drag this here alright now
the first thing you have to do is
caption whatever it is you're hearing
whether that be someone's speaking or
words let's press play again and hear
what we hear what's being said
[Music]
last another's day all right so the
first thing I heard was soft music so
I'm going to put whatever ambience or
whatever music is going on in brackets
so soft music last Mother's Day Erica
didn't get me a mother so last Mother's
Day day Erica didn't get me a Mother's
Day card Erica didn't get me a Mother's
Day card
okay so I've just typed the first
sentence now remember when a new speaker
is on the screen and you can see her or
him you're going to put a little dash
than a space and begin typing now that
this block you see is read this is not
good we need it to either be green or
yellow so you have to break it up into
two different caption groups so try to
find a spot that makes you know sounds
like it flows so last Mother's Day Erica
didn't get me a Mother's Day card that's
okay
before you think I'm a terrible daughter
I still got hurt so now it's a new
speaker so we're going again and we can
see her on the screen so you do another
dash and then you can type what she says
fodder
I still got her card but it was a thank
you card okay she thanked me for
teaching her how to be a mom she thanked
me for teaching her how to be a mom
again it's a third sit sass nutter
speaker again so you're switching
whenever you're switching speakers even
though we have seen this woman before
we're going to put a dash and type
whatever it is that she says you have to
keep switching it back every time a new
person talks or there's a change of
speaker actually it's the sweetest thing
ever
I had data last year and I learned
everything from my mom I would and
everything from my mom I would have been
so lost without her I would have been so
lost without her
all right so as you can see here all of
these are green every time you click on
it you can see it's green if you keep
typing it will eventually turn to yellow
and you're still safe with yellow but
then once you keep going in its red you
have to break it up okay mom
thank you for often mom thank you for
all the late-night phone calls all the
late-night phone calls the emergencies
that weren't actually emergencies
actually emerges okay so something just
popped up as you see here it says 10
minutes remaining until the deadline if
a box like this pops up that is just
warning you of how much time you have to
complete this project you can just click
the X one thing to note is after it goes
ten minutes and it's up you're late but
you have one hour to finish the project
there's no penalty but it does your
score on Rev will decrease so you will
you want to keep your rating high but
one hour too late projects is not going
to affect you too greatly seas that
weren't actually emergencies thank you
for teaching me how to get spit-up out
of every teaching me how to get spit-up
out of everything all right I'm just
gonna pause it here and then come back
to show you how exactly we sync this all
together when you're done typing
everything out okay so now that I
finished typing out all of my captions
and there's you know no mistakes there's
no red blocks anywhere I can go ahead
and at the top here press sync right now
we're in type mode and now we're ready
to sync these captions so I'm gonna
press sync all right so as you can see
here I have 22 captions that I need to
sync with the video and here the
instructions are press the up arrow
button on your keyboard to sync this
caption so there are a number of ways
you can do this again what I told you
before hold down shift
and press tab to start the video so as
the video is playing you want to caption
it you have a couple options here when
you're typing you definitely don't want
to be on as you can see here this button
it's a speed it says 110 percent when
you're typing usually you're going to be
on a hundred or less because people
depending on how fast someone speaks but
when you're captioning it you can go all
the way up to 200 if you want because
syncing is much more it's much easier to
do than captioning so I'm just gonna
start off at 100 to show you so remember
hold down shift press tab to go back to
seconds and keep pressing it to go back
to the start so hold down shift tap now
I'm going to press the up arrow key as
I'm hearing the words or the beginning
so now it's soft music and once I hear
last I'm gonna press the up arrow key I
don't have to stop I could just keep
going and keep slowly pressing the up
arrow key I'll stop um while I'm doing
this to show you though so again press
tab to press play last Mother's Day up
arrow key it didn't get me a Mother's
Day up arrow key before my bearable
daughter
arrow key card but it was a thank you
whoops okay so as you can see I I did
that a little too fast card but it was a
thank you card so I'm gonna press pause
she just said thank you card so I'm
gonna go back but it was her I still got
her card but it was a thank you card she
alright so now I'm going to pause it and
I know that she starts saying this line
here so I can drag this over if you go a
little too fast sometimes with the up
arrow you can get a little carried away
you can make some mistakes oh but no
problem you could just pause it and go
back drag these little caption groups to
wherever you need it to be so again hold
down shift press tab to go back two
seconds thank you card she thanked me
all right so she thanked me teaching her
how to be a mom
actually it was the sweetest thing ever
all right I'm gonna press pause I think
I spelt this name wrong I think Jada has
a why there so let's say I want to I can
just click on whatever I want to edit no
problems okay
last year and I learned everything from
my mom I would have been so lost without
her mom thank you all right I think I've
got the hang of this so now I'm going to
try speeding this up a little bit
let's try speeding it up 250 and again
as you hear the first word of the
caption group so I'm looking for the
word of that or the Emergencies I'm
going to press the up arrow key on my
keyboard and then I can keep sinking it
so again tab to press the vid to press
play to the video for all the late-night
phone calls the emergencies that weren't
actually emergencies thank you for
teaching me how to get spit-up out of
everything thank you for your wisdom and
guidance and most of all thank you for
your patience and kindness thank you for
teaching me everything I know and thank
you for being such a great role model I
can only hope to be as good of a mom as
you were to me love you to the moon and
stars Erica thank you mom oops again I
was a little got a little carried away
so I know she just said thank you mom
now I'm gonna drag this down over here
very good okay so that was super simple
there are a few other options you have
over here project you can submit it
recover you can get the style guide if
you want to look at instructions or you
need help unclaimed the project if
you've decided it's just too difficult
or you're not going to get it done on
time here we have text expanders so what
that means is say you're saying a word a
lot say I'm saying some crazy word or
some really strange name like Fernando
or something
my Fernando's not that strange of a name
anyways but I want to put an fer and
then I want to make it the expansion for
Nando so every time I type in Fe art it
will expand naturally to Fernando so I
don't have to type that whole thing in
so these are just some little secrets
that you'll learn along the way but this
is just a beginner tutorial so I'm not
going to get into that right now
here ABC is a spell check so J now
they're not recognizing that as a name
but that's alright I can click ignore
and there's no more spelling errors okay
search if you want to look for enough
let's say I've spelt Emily wrong
throughout it let's say I've spelled
Emily like this and really emily was
spelt with double D at the end I could
replace all of the ones in the entire
video that you in the entire video so
you don't have to go individually and do
it so these are just a couple little
things that you can learn as you're
going along I recommend you start with
the shorter video start with videos that
are under two minutes long just to get
the hang of this before you get working
on larger projects so when you're
finished all you have to do is click
Submit and look I've got it done within
three minutes so that's great click
Submit you can rate the project if you
liked it you can add the customer to
your favorites if you want to see more
of those projects in the future click
submit and good I'm ready to go so
that's all you that's all you have to do
alright I hope you enjoyed this tutorial
and that it was easy for you alright
I'll talk to you later