traveling where missionaries cannot go

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AWR Megavoice file prep. ManualAWR Megavoice file prep. Manual

By A. D. Gungadoo (Nov 2006)By A. D. Gungadoo (Nov 2006)

Mission Statement

Adventist World Radio broadcasts the Adventist hope in Christ to the hardest-to-reach people groups of the world in their own languages.

Mission Statement

June 30, 2003

: Traveling where missionaries cannot go !: Traveling where missionaries cannot go !

The Challenges for the “Hard-to-reach”

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1950: 44%+

1990: 27%

2000: 16%

2002: 20%

Inside the Megavoice

Capacities

• 32 Megs – 20 Hrs (or 40x 30 min programs)

• 64 Megs – 40 Hrs (or 80x 30 min programs)

•128 Megs – 80 Hrs (or 160x 30 min programs)

• 256 Megs – 160 Hrs (or 320x 30 min programs)

• 320 Megs – 200 Hrs (or 320x 30 min programs)

Scribe & Megavoice

Scribe Functions

Polishing the RecordingAdobe Audition 1.5 Processing

• Audio Processing– Effects > Amplitude > Hard Limiting

• Limit Max Amplitude to -.2 or -.1 • Boost Input by 6 or 7 dB

– Effects > Amplitude > Normalize – Effects > Amplitude > Dynamics Processing

• Audio Processing– Effects > Amplitude > Hard Limiting

• Limit Max Amplitude to -.2 or -.1 • Boost Input by 6 or 7 dB

– Effects > Amplitude > Normalize – Effects > Amplitude > Dynamics Processing

Polishing the RecordingAdobe Audition 2.0 Processing

• Audio Processing– Effects > Amplitude > MultiBand Compressor

• Effect Preset: Broadcast

– Effects > Amplitude > Normalize

• Audio Processing– Effects > Amplitude > MultiBand Compressor

• Effect Preset: Broadcast

– Effects > Amplitude > Normalize

• For Chapter wavs– Beginning silence: 0.1 seconds– Ending silence: 2.0 seconds

• For Titles– Beginning silence: 0.1 seconds– Ending silence: 1.0 second

Pre/Post Silences

• 44100 Hz -> 8000 Hz

• Stereo -> Mono

• Quality: 500

• 16 bit

WAV standard

00000-AWR001-enC001.wav00000-AWR001-enC001F0001.wav00000-AWR001-enC001F0002.wav00000-AWR001-enC001F0003.wav00000-AWR001-enC002.wav00000-AWR001-enC002F0001.wav00000-AWR001-enC002F0002.wav00000-AWR002-enC001.wav00000-AWR002-enC001F0001.wav00000-AWR002-enC001F0002.wav

File naming structure

Bk1 Ch1 TitleBk1 Ch1 Part1Bk1 Ch1 Part2Bk1 Ch1 Part3Bk1 Ch2 Title

Bk1 Ch2 Part1Bk1 Ch2 Part2Bk2 Ch1 Title

Bk2 Ch1 Part1Bk2 Ch1 Part2

00000-AWR001-enC001.wav00000-AWR001-enC001F0001.wav00000-AWR001-enC001F0002.wav00000-AWR001-enC001F0003.wav00000-AWR001-enC002.wav00000-AWR001-enC002F0001.wav00000-AWR001-enC002F0002.wav00000-AWR002-enC001.wav00000-AWR002-enC001F0001.wav00000-AWR002-enC001F0002.wav

File naming structure

Bk1 Ch1 TitleBk1 Ch1 Part1Bk1 Ch1 Part2Bk1 Ch1 Part3Bk1 Ch2 Title

Bk1 Ch2 Part1Bk1 Ch2 Part2Bk2 Ch1 Title

Bk2 Ch1 Part1Bk2 Ch1 Part2

00000-AWR001-enC001.wav (intro to usage 1 of 2)00000-AWR001-enC001F001.wav (intro to usage 1 of 2)00000-AWR002-enC001.wav (Program 1 # Identifier)00000-AWR002-enC001F001.wav (Program 1)00000-AWR002-enC002.wav (Program 2 # Identifier)00000-AWR002-enC002F001.wav (Program 2)00000-AWR002-enC003.wav (Program 3 # Identifier)00000-AWR002-enC003F001.wav (Program 3)00000-AWR002-enC004.wav (Program 4 # Identifier)00000-AWR002-enC004F001.wav (Program 4)00000-AWR002-enC005.wav (Program 5 # Identifier)00000-AWR002-enC005F001.wav (Program 5)00000-AWR002-enC006.wav (Program 6 # Identifier)00000-AWR002-enC006F001.wav (Program 6)00000-AWR002-enC007.wav (Program 7 # Identifier)00000-AWR002-enC007F001.wav (Program 7)00000-AWR002-enC008.wav (Program 8 # Identifier)00000-AWR002-enC008F001.wav (Program 8)00000-AWR002-enC009.wav (Program 9 # Identifier)00000-AWR002-enC009F001.wav (Program 9)00000-AWR003-enC001.wav (Program 10 # Identifier)00000-AWR003-enC001F001.wav (Program 10)00000-AWR003-enC002.wav (Program 11 # Identifier)00000-AWR003-enC002F001.wav (Program 11)

File naming structure for AWR 20+ programs, with blocks of 10 skip…

File Encoding

• Compress file directory in a Zipped file

• FTP to audio.awr.org

• Inform Megavoice for files to encode (ezagofsky@megavoice.com Ed Zagofsky)

Writing Modes

ab2

b1c

Writing Modes

Mode a

Mode b

Mode c

Scribe Software

Mode b

Scribe Software

Mode c

Opening file in PC

Erasing Ambassador

Writing from PC

Mode b (to Scribe)

Writing from PC

Mode c (to Ambas.)

Writing from Scribe

Mode a & b (to Ambas.)

Writing from Scribe

Mode a & b (to Ambas.)

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