Time Stamping

by Kristy
(Katy, TX)

First of all, I'm elated to have found this site and wonderful resource! Thank you very much for the time and effort put into this site.

I'm wondering what time-stamping is, and how to do it properly? Does it require third-party software, or can it be done with Express Scribe?

A client has asked me to transcribe a video and put three time-stamps per page, and since I'm just starting out in the business I'm not 100% sure of the correct way to do this.

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by: Yvonne

It's great to see users helping each other. I work for a small general transcription company and the templates for each project varies based on the client of the TransCo. I've been using Express Scribe for years and somehow never took the time to fully explore this software until today, due to a particularly difficult audio file. The directions here for inserting my time codes from ES is saving me SO much time and now I'm blowing through this 2hr audio file like it's nothing!! Thanks so much for the VERY helpful tips! :D
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by: Sachin

Thank you very much for giving this valuable information. It saved my most of time, otherwise i would have lost my client.
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by: Anonymous

To add to above tips, if anyone wants to add the time stamp in square brackets in Express Scribe, simply Click Options + Display type [ in the prefix box and ] in the suffix and you get the time stamp in square brackets like this [00:00:00.0]. Hope this is useful.
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by: Linda K. Carr

I would just like to share that if you have Time Code Stamping that comes out like this 0:00:0, and it should look like this 00:00:00, if you are using Express Scribe, just do a Internet Search for Express Scribe Software, and download the latest version from the website.
Your Time Code Stamping will be updated automatically to the correct way.
I hope this helps you, and I just wanted to share this information.
I have my own home-based Transcription Business out of my residence in Austin, Tx.
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Thanking you in advance,

Linda K. Carr
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Austin, Tx
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Email: lindalkcarr@austin.rr.com
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by: Anonymous

Thats really heplful..
Will you please tel me how to put the timestamp in the square brackets like [00:66:33] I tried the way you told but i gt it in a format like 00:66:33...

thnx in advance
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by: Denise Continisio

Thanks for the instructions.

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by: Karen

Thanks for the question, Kristy!

While the old analog transcription units used a "counter" to show where you were on a tape, digital audios and videos display the actual time in minutes and seconds.

When you time stamp a document, you're inserting into the transcript the time in minutes and seconds of where you are in the audio/video. Time stamping helps those reading the transcript to follow along with the audio/video or if a clarification is needed in the typed transcript, they have a marker of sorts of where to go in the audio to listen to it again.

How often, the format and where you place the time stamps in a transcript will most likely be up to your client. I've done some transcripts that needed time stamps every three minutes, others every five minutes. So the frequency will be up to your client.

Generally if your client has simply stated something like, "Time stamp every three minutes," with no other instructions, I would suggest putting the stamp as close to the three minute mark as possible but without breaking up a sentence or a paragraph.

Express Scribe has a couple of time stamp features. From Express Scribe's website:

"To insert timestamps into a Word document, in Express Scribe go to Settings, then select Pedals and Hot Keys. Click Add at the bottom of the box to create a System-wide Hot Key. A Window pops up asking you to press a key. In my version of Express Scribe F1 and F11 are free. I chose F1. Then a Select Command box pops up. Scroll down to Copy Time and select this.

"Now, as you play the audio file in Express Scribe, all you have to do is press your Hot Key (F1 for me) at the point where you hear the word you want to time stamp, and then CTRL V to paste it in Word.

"Bingo. Two keystrokes and you're pasting timestamps! And it's a system-wide hot key, so you can insert timestamps into anything."

Also with Express Scribe, on the menu bar, click on Notes - Insert - Time or Ctrl+Shift+T and the program will put a stamp wherever your cursor is in your document. You can also do this manually by simply looking at the time code on the program and manually typing it in - as shown below.

[T=10:12:03] or

T=10:12:03 or simply

10:12:03

Double space before and after the time stamp (as shown above) so the stamp can be seen easily. You can put it in brackets or not; you can use the T= or not. You can always ask your client for a more specific clarification but either of those three formats above have been acceptable to some of my corporate clients.

If you're using Start-Stop to transcribe a video, follow along with this video to learn the Start Stop time stamp function.

www.general-transcription-business.com/start-stop.html

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