December 17, 2014

IMPORTANT REMINDER/ WARNING:

YOUR USE OF THE SYSTEM IS FOR TRANSCRIBING ONLY. Your access should be
limited to the Manage Content tab and transcribing within that.

PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DOWNLOAD THE VIDEOS FROM THE SYSTEM OR

ANY OTHER FUNCTION EXCEPT TRANSCRIBING.

NEW GUIDELINES AND FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS:

1. TIME CAPTURE FREQUENCY. End users of the system will ultimately be potential clip
licensors. The work we do is for their benefit. The more difficult it is for them to find what they
are looking for, the less likely they are to want to license anything. So, we need to be capturing
dialogue more frequently. The new rule will be to capture dialogue in NO GREATER THAN
30 SECOND INCREMENTS.

2. SPACING AND VIEWABILITY. Again, we want to make this a user-friendly experience. As

such, we need to limit each block of dialogue to NO MORE THAN 4 LINES and we need to
make sure that we PUT A COMPLETE SPACE BETWEEN EACH BLOCK OF DIALOGUE.

a. DAVID LETTERMAN: Hello folks and thank you for that kind response. I really
needed that today after such a difficult time at the dentist. You may have recognized that I
have some spacing issues. I know, most people think this is cute, but when you have to
look in the mirror every day it isnt so attractive if you know what I mean. Anyway, I was at
the dentists office and like you usually do, I was reading a magazine. Yes, believe it or
not, people like me do read magazines in dentists offices.

So, there I was in the dentists office reading a magazine when all of a sudden

PAUL SHAFFER: What magazine were you reading, Dave?

DAVID LETTERMAN: Is wasnt Playboy if thats what youre insinuating, Paul.

3. GUESTS DOING IMPRESSIONS OR SPEAKING AS OTHER PEOPLE. At times, Dave has

certain people on his show most of these people are recurring characters i.e. Larry Bud
Melman that come on and take on another personality or name. For instance, Dave will say,
And here comes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Larry Bud Melman will then come out and talk AS IF
he were Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The way to handle this is as follows:

a. KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR (LARRY BUD MELMAN): Really great

to be here. Hows the weather down there, folks?

b. There may be some of you who will not recognize the recurring
character or the real name of the guest that is doing the impression. In
those cases, we are going to (hopefully) rely on QC to catch it, but
please do your best.

4. SPELLING, COLLOQUIALISMS, ABBREVIATIONS AND QUOTATIONS. Shockingly, there

were a lot of spelling errors found and ironically they were mostly in the Top Ten list which is
actually written on the screen. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE RUNNING A SPELL CHECK
on the document before you mark it complete. This is pretty easy to do in the system and if you
dont know how to do that, make sure you reach out and ask.

a. NO MORE (LOL), (OMG) OR ANY PARENTHETICAL COLLOQUIALISMS OR

ABBREVIATIONS.

b. PLEASE DO NOT PUT ANY PART OF ANYONES NAME IN QUOTES

UNLESS IT IS STANDARDLY SPELLED THAT WAY. FOR EXAMPLE, A LOT OF
PEOPLE HAS BEEN TYPING LARRY BUD MELMAN. UNLESS THE END USER
PUTS IN QUOTATION MARKS, THEY WILL NOT FIND THEM.

5. TOP TEN LIST. This is probably the biggest adjustment and THE MOST IMPORTANT. WE
NEED TO TYPE THE TOP TEN LIST PHONETICALLY AS DAVE SAYS IT INCLUDING ALL
HIS DIGRESSIONS AND COMMENTS RATHER THAN PUTTING IT IN LIST FORM.

CORRECT:

a. DAVID LETTERMAN: At number 10 of the top ten reasons New York pizza is the
best, and this comes directly from the horses mouth Ill tell you, at number 10, we have
better wrist-spinners. Number 9, its all about the hat. Number 8, youre going to like this
one Paul, I got your slice right here

WRONG/ INCORRECT AND NOT LIKE THIS:

10. Better wrist-spinners
9. Its all about the hat
8. I got your slice right here

6. THE ANNOUNCER. At the top of the show, there is someone that usually introduces Dave
.From New York, the city that never sleeps or picks up its trash, David Letterman.

WE NEED TO DO 2 THINGS: FIRST, WE NEED TO USE HIS ACTUAL NAME. IF YOU DONT
KNOW WHO THAT IS, GENERALLY SPEAKING:
FROM 1993-1995 THE ANNOUNCER WAS BILL WENDELL.
FROM 1995 TO THE PRESENT IT IS ALAN KALTER.