Church Archive Script

Scripts to encode existing Filadelfia recordings while attempting to retain the highest quality and saving what can be saved from the shitty yadif deinterlacing that was being used.

Instructions for archival helpers

1. Download Filezille or use your favorite FTP client.

Download filezilla from here: https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?platform=win64

• Be careful when installing on windows to not install the malware that comes with the installer.

In filezilla client, click the top-left button "site manager" and add the information you received in DM.

After having saved the information and closed the dialogue, connect to the server by clicking the little downdown icon next to the button above and select the FTP site you just added.

2. Grab this script.

Top-right on this site, click the [...] and in the dropdown, click download zip:

Extract to a folder of your choosing.

3. Select a month you wanna encode.

The FTP is organized with two root folders:

• /Archived: Stuff that has already been archived or is being archived by people.
• /Old: Everything on the filadelfia storage server.

Browse through /Old/recordings/raw and select a month you wanna work on.

• Make sure equivalent month folder does not exist in /Archived or that someone else isn't already working on it

Create a folder in /Archived with the selected month and your name to it and proceed to download the folder from /Old/recordings/raw

4. Encode the stuff

Select all the video files that should be archived.

• Small video files that don't contain sermons or just few minutes of nothing can be safely skipped.
• Already small encodes of sermons (usually in range of few gigabytes) can be safely skipped.

Drag and drop all the video files that need to be archived over Encode.bat in the script folder.

5. Upload your results and go to step 3

Upload both the finished files as well as any files that were skipped to the /Archived on the FTP and go back to step 3.

Repeat until we have everything archived :D