Localize Video Games Like a Pro: Voice Over Edition

Learn about voice overs when localizing video games from recording studios, budgets, scripts, and more!

What you'll learn
- Learn about voice over work from the history behind it and all the way to delivery of files to developers.
- Understand the complexities of recording voice overs and the tasks involved.
- Understand the core people you will be working with to get recording done and the duties they perform.
- Become capable of putting together a comprehensive master script for recording at a studio.
- Become capable of understanding common audio issues in delivered lines and how to hear them in files.
- Learn and understand the usage of some Excel formulas that will aid in recording.

Requirements
- Basic understanding of video game localization
- Basic use of Excel
- Basic use of a video/audio player

Description
Are you passionate about video game localization and the work that goes into voice over recording, but can’t find the resources to learn how? Then, this course is for you!

Afterbeing in the video game localization industry for over two decadesandworking on countless popular titles like Persona, Shin Megami Tensei, and Yakuza,I have come to realize that there are people out there that wishes to learn about how to handle voice over recording on a project. That is why I’ve created this second course on Udemy specifically forlinguists and project managerswho want more knowledge regarding voice recording for video games, as well as forvideo game localization companies that have producers or coordinators with no experience regarding VO workand want to give them a crash course on it. This course will give you the confidence to handle voice over work from start to finish on any game and be able to apply to voice over specialist positions at companies like Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sega Atlus, Square Enix, and many more.

Here is what you will learn by the end of taking this course:

· Basics of recording voice overs (VO)

How voice overs for video games have evolved over the years and the people you will work with when recording VO

· Working with recording studios

Understand the differences in recording within and outside the United States, along with the staff that will take part in voice recording

· Recording costs and quotes

How to understand the fluctuation of recording costs, what details to provide studios with to get accurate quotes, and how to read the quotes line by line

· Different types of recorded lines

Be able to distinguish between the different types of recorded lines and the creation of scripts specific to those types of lines

· Creating a master script

How to create a comprehensive master script, along with utilizing Excel formulas and conditional formatting to gain accurate line counts and ease of readability

·Workflow of recording and delivered files

Step-by-step breakdown of what happens during recording voice overs at the studio and the different tasks that are performed during sessions

·Checking deliveries before submission to developers

How to efficiently check delivered voice files, as well as being able to hear the common issues that should be flagged and fixed by the recording studio

Are you ready to learn the secrets behind how video game voice overs are recorded and become part of the countless teams across the world to kick off your career?Then, check out this course now!

Who this course is for:
- Intermediate linguists who want to learn more about and handle voice over work.
- Intermediate linguists who want to further their career by becoming voice over specialists.
- Localization producers or coordinators who want more knowledge regarding voice over recording.
- Video game localization companies that have producers, coordinators, or linguists with no experience regarding voice over work and want to give them a crash course on it.
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