The Passion of Editing the AOC curriculum! Can it be done?
Posted: 03 June 2011 12:24 AM
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Yes! 

  And it is happening, I am currently working on class 9 now!  I wanted to give yall a sense of what is entailed of the project.

1. Cutting out Dead Air Time
2. Mixing and balancing the audio: a lot of times our circle will speak with out a microphone and it is not picked up well on the recording. Each time a student  
    speaks the audio levels for them is raised up to almost the loudest setting which allows us to hear what the student is saying so it makes sense with the
    flow of the class material. There is a lot of talking in our circles which is great because it adds to the richness of the class, but you can imagine the time it
    takes to bring the audio levels up each time.
3. Editing superflous dialogue
4. Condensing anywhere from 2-3 tracks into one that are of the same material but originally were separated, streamlining the material. 
5. And My favorite, creating the best of each class, where the greatest moments in a class are combined into one track - These are the moments when the
  room splits open and there is a sense of a still point rising and spreading through the atrium.

Class 1   before editing   21 hours,  After Editing 9 hours
Class 10 before editing   30 hours,  After Editing 19 hours

I wanted to speak about the nature of the products because of the pride and joy I feel with each completion of a class.  They feel like living beings to me, and the material bursts at you in its full glory. I have been honored to be called this project and feel a open heart that the edited recordings will serve our community in a true, good and beautiful way.

Many Blessings to our practitioners, Thank You for Reading
Forest

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