Tuesday, February 05, 2019

modus operandi for processing audio files for rebroadcast

Made this list for the people at Studio, since I would no longer be processing mandir audio for rebroadcast -

1. Listen to the whole thing (if feasible at 2x speed, or at mandir itself, while the program is going on), mark problematic parts with markers.
2. If the program is a drama that contains copyrighted songs, edit out those songs within only 10-20 seconds.
3. If the program is of poor quality, like songs which are completely out of tune, do not process for broadcast.
4. If the program has speeches which are not of general interest, or which are not suitable for broadcast due to poor delivery, do not process for broadcast. If the speech is good, but marred by repetitive words like Ummmm / Aaaah / "You know" / "Like" etc, edit those out. Also edit out any gaps like speaker turning pages, speaker drinking water, etc. 
5. If it is a music program, try to cut into individual songs/announcements if possible. Filenames similar to historical filenames which you can see under MSV* and SV* in our local cdsearch page.
6. For speeches, I have been processing to remove noise as per this:
http://hnsws.blogspot.com/2010/01/tips-for-clean-audio.html or
http://hnsws.blogspot.com/2013/11/another-audio-cleanup-tool-chain-reaper.html

7. I have been skipping processing Telugu dramas for AsiaStream once TeluguStream started, so that if the Telugu team is interested, they can use for TeluguStream. Similarly now with Hindi team. 

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