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Showing posts with label video. Show all posts

Oct 18, 2023

An Unfiltered Look at memoQ Filters (webinar, 19 October 2023, 15:00 CET)

This presentation and discussion covered some of the challenges and opportunities to improve memoQ project workflows through correct filte...

Aug 5, 2021

Workflow Wednesday: Getting started with memoQ templates

Recorded Aug 11, 2021 It has been more than seven years since memoQ introduced the use of project templates , and although the default me...

Sep 22, 2018

Technology for legal and financial translation: lecture video

memoQfest 2018 , held this year in Budapest from May 31 to June 1, was a great event as I noted in my recent discussion of how Kilgray – or ...

Sep 11, 2018

Adding time codes to YouTube videos

For years now, I have advocated the use of tables of contents for long instructional videos, recorded webinars and suchlike. I saw these in ...

Jun 24, 2018

What's missing in most training videos: found!

Five years ago more or less I wrote a post in which I optimistically declared that if I ever did a one-hour webinar I would edit it down to ...

Nov 3, 2013

Kilgray training resources: is this what you need?

Some years ago I was relaxing at an informal occasion with one of Kilgray's directors, who expressed concern that the growing number of ...

Oct 5, 2013

Two years with an e-book reader

Nearly two years ago I acquired my first e-book reader , an Amazon Kindle like the one shown here. I had various thoughts of using it prof...

Aug 15, 2013

Comments on memoQ comments and YouTube playlists

I recently produced a small video tutorial on what I feel are the useful aspects of the comment feature in memoQ 2013. Although quite a few ...

Aug 9, 2013

memoQuickie: Exporting TMX from memoQ

Translators are often asked to export translation memory data (TMX files typically) to deliver with their work. Although this is fairly simp...

Aug 6, 2013

Translating presentations in memoQ: PowerPoint vs. OpenOffice Impress

Microsoft PowerPoint files can be a real nuisance to translate. One of the biggest challenges with these files is the haphazard formatting t...

Aug 3, 2013

memoQ&A: How do I leverage the pretranslated SDLXLIFF content?

Given the interesting and surprising answers I received in previous two-stage "quiz posts" in which a challenge was posed for othe...

Jul 27, 2013

The great guessing game: file extensions in Windows!

How many file types are there in the screen shot above? Use your discerning eye and write your answer in the comments of this post. Any...

Jul 26, 2013

The trouble with voice recognition in translation environment tools....

I had not planned to make a video on voice recognition tools any time soon, but a few remarks by my American colleague Kevin Hendzel w...

New tutorials for translation productivity

As many may have noticed from reading this blog or following me on Twitter in recent weeks, I have begun to create and post on YouTube a la...

Jul 24, 2013

What good is memoQ fuzzy term matching?

When Kilgray introduced fuzzy term matching with the release of memoQ 2013, I was first concerned with how it worked after a few puzzling...

Jul 20, 2013

Teach the translators well

My colleague Jayne Fox recently offered a list of various continuing education opportunities of interest under the title " Free webinar...

Jul 5, 2013

Translating video captions in memoQ

Since my first explorations of editing video caption files in a text editor last week, I've learned quite a few ways to improve the pr...

Jun 29, 2013

Caption editing for YouTube videos

I've spent a great deal of time in recent weeks examining different means for remote instruction via the Internet. In the past I've ...

Sep 3, 2012

memoQuickie: "compatible" XLIFF in memoQ 6, 6.2 and 2013

The recent builds of memoQ 6 have caused some confusion with Kilgray following the SDL practice of creating its own extension for XLIFF fil...

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