Reference:After Service Instructions

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Preparing the audio for the website (part 1)

  1. Leave the PowerPoint on the last slide until the Sanctuary clears. You can do the following work while it’s still up.
  2. Go to Audacity. Stop the recording.
  3. Go to File > Save Project As...
  4. Name according to date: YYYYMMDD.aup (so March 4, 2010 = 20100304.aup)
  5. Save it in the folder Documents > Sermons > Audacity Projects
  6. Navigate to the end of the sermon, after "in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen" and click there.
    • Audacity shortcuts:
      • Ctrl+3, Ctrl+1: Zoom out, zoom in
      • Ctrl+mouse wheel: Zoom out, zoom in
      • Spacebar: Play/stop
      • Shift+mouse wheel: Move forwards/backwards (right/left) in time
  7. Go to Tracks > Add Label at Selection
  8. Type "sermon" and press enter (the name is arbitrary; it's just to help keep track of things)
  9. Navigate to the beginning of the sermon (right at the end of the opening prayer to the sermon) and click there.
  10. Go to Tracks > Add Label at Selection
  11. Type "start" and press enter (the name is arbitrary; it's just to help keep track of things)
  12. Zoom out so you can see both labels. Drag the circle from the label on the right over to the label on the left.
    13. Zoom in on the "start" label to align it perfectly.
  13. Click on the “sermon” label (in order to highlight that portion of the audio track) and go to Edit > Duplicate.
  14. Two new “tracks” should appear. Close the bottommost label track. Mute the uppermost audio track. Select the newly made audio track (now on the bottom) by clicking on the track panel on the left.
  15. With the sermon track selected, apply these audio effects:
    • Go to Effect > Equalization...
    The "Make Pastor Dan brighter" preset should be selected. Click OK. Wait to finish.
    • Go to Effect > Compress dynamics...
    • Compress ratio: 1
    • Attack width: 0.34
    • Attack exponent: 4
    • Release width: 0.5
    • Release exponent: 2
    • Floor: -20
    • Noise gate falloff: 1
    • Maximum amplitude: 0.95
    Click OK. Wait to finish (this one will take longer).
  16. Listen to random parts of the recording. Does everything sound good? If there's parts that are too quiet or too loud, you'll need to undo the compression and make sure you typed the right settings or try different settings.
  17. Select the bottommost audio track again (by clicking on the track panel on the left) and go to File > Export Selection... (If a message appears about mixing down tracks, you have extra audio tracks selected. Go back and select only the one audio track.)
  18. Click OK on the Edit Metadata screen. Don’t change anything there.
  19. On the save dialog, click Options... and verify that it is set to export selected audio at 64 Kbps. Click OK.
  20. Name the file according to date: YYYYMMDD.mp3 (so March 4, 2010 = 20100304.mp3)
    21. Save it in the folder Documents > Sermons > Finished MP3s
  21. Click Save. It should take some time to finish.

Creating the thumbnail

  1. Go to the PowerPoint. Click the specially-designed sermon title slide.
  2. Go to File > Save As. Under “Save as type...” select PNG Portable Network Graphics Format (*.png)
  3. Name according to date: YYYYMMDD.png (so March 4, 2010 = 20100304.png)
  4. Save it in the folder Documents > PowerPoints > (Year) > (Month)
  5. Click Save. Click Current Slide Only.
  6. Open this file in Paint.NET.
  7. Go to Image > Resize... and set the height to 600 Click OK.
  8. Go to Image > Canvas Size... and set the width to 600 Click OK. This should make it a square 600x600 image now.
  9. Go to File > Save As...
  10. Save as type: JPEG (*.jpg)
  11. Name according to date: YYYYMMDD.jpg (so March 4, 2010 = 20100304.jpg)
  12. Save it in the folder Documents > PowerPoints > (Year) > (Month)
  13. Click Save.
  14. Set Quality to 80. (Preview size should consequently adjust to somewhere around 70 KB).
  15. Click OK.

Preparing the audio for the website (part 2)

  1. When the MP3 is done exporting in Audacity, close Audacity (save changes) and start Mp3tag.
  2. Click on today’s MP3 in the list. (If you don’t see it, you exported the MP3 file to somewhere other than Documents > PowerPoints > Finished MP3s.)
  3. Fill in the fields on the left panel:
    • Title: title of sermon, no quotes or part number
      Example: An Unpopular, Spectacular Invitation
    • Artist the speaker
      Example: Pastor Dan Cox
    • Album: the series name in title case, not all caps
      Example: Demystifying Discipleship
    • Year: something like 2010
    • Genre: always Speech
  4. Right click on the square at the bottom and click Add cover.... Navigate to Documents > PowerPoints > (Year) > (Month) and select the JPEG thumbnail we made earlier. Click Open. Check to make sure the image is the right one.
  5. Go to File > Save tag. A confirmation window will appear. Click OK.
  6. Close Mp3tag.

Now for the website...

  1. On the website, go to Special:UserLogin and log in with your username and password.
  2. Once logged in, click Upload file in the toolbox in the upper right of the screen (if it’s not there, try logging in again).
  3. Click Choose file, find the thumbnail image (in Documents > PowerPoints > (Year) > (Month)) and click Upload file. Do not change the name (it should be in YYYYMMDD format).
  4. When that’s done, click Upload file in the toolbox in the upper right of the screen again. Upload the audio file (in Documents > Sermons > Finished MP3s). Do not change the name (it should be in YYYYMMDD format). It will take a minute to upload after clicking Upload file.
  5. Go to Sermon Schedule with links. This page is just like the Sermon Schedule page, except that it gives you links to the upcoming sermon pages.
  6. Click the first link in the list. It should be titled today’s sermon or date or something. If the list is blank, you need to make a new page on the website for today’s sermon. See Reference:Sermon Schedule on how to do that.
  7. Click the Edit button at the bottom of the page.
  8. If there is already text on the page, then some work has already been done for you. If not, then you need to add it yourself. Fill in the page with the rest of the information about the sermon. Reference:Sermon Schedule explains what needs to be put on this page. Note that the first line changes from {{upcomingsermon to {{audio. Doing this moves this page from the upcoming sermons category to the Audio Library category. This is generally what the page needs to look like when you are finished: 
    {{audio
|title=An Unpopular, Spectacular Invitation  
||date=20090913
|series=Demystifying Discipleship
|partnumber=1
|keythought=Jesus Christ bids you, ‘Come and die...that you might live.’
|scripture=Matthew 16:21-28
|duration=36:30
|filesize=12.57
|speaker=Pastor Dan Cox
}}

    If the sermon is not part of a series (like if it’s a special Easter or Mother’s Day message), remove these lines: 

    |series=Demystifying Discipleship
|partnumber=1

    and add this line: 

    |noseries=yes
  9. On the line immediately following the closing braces ( }} ), type this line:
    10. ==Study Notes==
  10. Copy and paste the study notes that have been sent to you under this line. Reformat them using wikicode. See this page for formatting help. In the study notes, start with using level 3 headings (surrounded by three equal signs). Be sure to use the <bible> tag (see the next page) where applicable This:
    <bible>Hebrews 4:12-14</bible>

    produces this:

    Hebrews 4:12-14
  11. Click Save page when finished.
  12. IMPORTANT: When your changes have been saved on this page and everything looks good (and you've tested the MP3 on the page to make sure it plays), load this page: Update Audio Library feed. This runs some code to update iTunes and some other places with the new sermon.
  13. Log out, save and close everything, and turn off the computer.
  14. Make sure both projectors are off and the front screen is up.
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