Adventures In Audio Recording - Part VI
Okay, so now that we've got all the technical parts of recording covered and how to meet ACX's requirements, we're ready to record and submit, right? Yeah, what the 10th Doctor is saying. There are a number of other non-technical requirements that we have to pay attention to, in order to submit our audio successfully. First off, you need to include opening credits. These are as follows: -The title of the audiobook -The subtitle, if there is one -Written by (Name of the Author) -Narrated by (Insert your name here) All of these need to be included in the very first file. Now you can submit this as a separate file, or as part of the first chapter. Speaking of chapters, each chapter should have its own sound file. When you submit to ACX you'll be submitting an entire folder of files to them. And each file can only include one chapter, no matter how short. UNLESS... the chapter is so long that the sound file is going to be longer than 120 minutes. In th...