Julie and Ruben and the team of "voices" finished the Dhao recording of the Easter Story! Praise God! Now it was time to shift gears and begin dubbing Kupang Malay into the Gospel of John video from the Lumo Project. There is only one speaking part, the narrator. Ian, who recorded several voices for the Easter Story, was going to be wonderful for this video.
This was expected to be an easier project. It was expected to begin Friday morning.
Not.
Recording is done using Audacity to record the audio and Reaper to place the audio into the film. Other software, created by Julie's department, connects these two to make the process appear seamless and efficient. Add to this mix an audio mixer for the recording, microphones, headsets to ensure the audio is clear and balanced, a monitor and speaker for the narrator to review the results, and finally at least one computer as a backup system and it's pretty cool...
if it works.
We won't go into the details but the "seamless" part didn't work at all and any recorded Audacity audio files wouldn't go back into Reaper. We finally switched to the backup computer. Same problem. Jon then troubleshot one computer, got it working for him, hooked it up again in the recording studio, and it stopped working. We pulled out a third computer, same problem.
Nothing got recorded all morning. Julie and Ruben finally broke for lunch at 1 pm.
Somebody must have prayed. (Yeah, we probably all did. Julie and the Director's wife prayed during lunch.)
After lunch Ruben reloaded the audio files for the John video on one of the computers that hadn't worked before lunch. They started recording again around 2 pm. It worked! It continued to work the rest of the afternoon.
Keep praying that it works next week and the next week and...
Thanks.
This was expected to be an easier project. It was expected to begin Friday morning.
Not.
Recording is done using Audacity to record the audio and Reaper to place the audio into the film. Other software, created by Julie's department, connects these two to make the process appear seamless and efficient. Add to this mix an audio mixer for the recording, microphones, headsets to ensure the audio is clear and balanced, a monitor and speaker for the narrator to review the results, and finally at least one computer as a backup system and it's pretty cool...if it works.
We won't go into the details but the "seamless" part didn't work at all and any recorded Audacity audio files wouldn't go back into Reaper. We finally switched to the backup computer. Same problem. Jon then troubleshot one computer, got it working for him, hooked it up again in the recording studio, and it stopped working. We pulled out a third computer, same problem.
Nothing got recorded all morning. Julie and Ruben finally broke for lunch at 1 pm.
Somebody must have prayed. (Yeah, we probably all did. Julie and the Director's wife prayed during lunch.)
After lunch Ruben reloaded the audio files for the John video on one of the computers that hadn't worked before lunch. They started recording again around 2 pm. It worked! It continued to work the rest of the afternoon.
Keep praying that it works next week and the next week and...
Thanks.
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