{"id":1672,"date":"2023-08-22T10:26:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T10:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T10:26:53","slug":"maras-ybr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/AVD\/maras-ybr\/","title":{"rendered":"Mara’s YBR"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a teenager, my mother\u2015a translator\u2015got a job subtitling films for a dubbing company in Argentina that was owned by the parents of one of my classmates. I remember her working at home with VHSs, rewinding them a million times, typing up her subtitles on a green Olivetti typewriter, and then sending the client the pages through a courier.<\/span><\/p>\n

A decade later, the same company hired me <\/span>to do admin work. I also freelanced for them, translating scripts for dubbing. I learned so <\/span>much by sneaking into the recording booth and watching how my scripts were dubbed! One of their clients requested we do closed captions <\/span>for an American TV network, and I was <\/span>entrusted with the project. It involved <\/span>watching several hours of captioned television <\/span>to figure out what CCs were (we didn\u2019t have <\/span>them in Argentina, so they were very alien to <\/span>me) and how to replicate them. I learned how <\/span>to use the software and trained a team.<\/span><\/p>\n

The following year, there was an ad in the classifieds section of the only English <\/span>newspaper in the country, looking for translators with experience in subtitles and captions. I sent my CV, took a test, did a couple of interviews, and was hired by a company that is currently one of the biggest post-production <\/span>studios in Burbank. There were eight of us in the Buenos Aires offices, and we were trained in captioning and subtitling for three months. My time working there was one of the happiest of my life and I made lifelong friendships. I started getting contacted by prospective clients, so, at some point, it made more sense for me to go freelance, which I did for about five years. The company I left has remained my client ever since. In 2009, my cousin partnered with me, so I went from freelancer to entrepreneur, working with a team of audiovisual translators, whom I trained and QCed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two years later, as my maternity leave was finishing, we got a call from the aforementioned Burbank company offering us work on the first project of a new (for Latin America at least) streaming service, Netflix! We had to grow our team threefold in two days, but we delivered a successful initial project of 63 episodes in a month. Since then, our company has grown exponentially, and now we handle thousands of minutes of subtitles and captions per month, and I have recently relocated to the UK to lead our European operations. I can\u2019t wait to see what the future holds!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mara Campbell<\/span> is an Argentine ATA-certified translator based <\/span>in the UK who has <\/span>been subtitling, <\/span>closed captioning, <\/span>and translating <\/span>subtitles and scripts <\/span>for dubbing for <\/span>the past 20 years. <\/span>She has worked at several <\/span>of the<\/span> largest audiovisual translation companies in Argentina and the USA. She is currently COO of True Subtitles, the company she founded in 2005. Her work has been seen on the screens of Netflix, Prime, Disney+, Hulu, HBO, BBC, and many more. She teaches courses, speaks at international conferences, and is a founding member of the American Translators Association’s AVD. <\/span>Contact: <\/span>maracampbell@truesubtitles.com<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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