GitHub log showing progress of manual transcript corrections.
I can’t tell if I’m the tortoise or the hare, but March 31st was a big day. My GitHub logs show that I started the manual step of the transcript correction process on December 1, 2012, and completed it on March 31, 2014 (with big summer breaks in between). There are still many hours of missing audio material, but I’ve been in touch with the Johnson Space Center, Houston Audio Control Room, and they’ve been very responsive and helpful. They assured me that the missing material was on their list of to-dos, and they’re aiming to start getting the missing material to me within the next few weeks.
It feels good to get to the next step. I don’t need the missing material to begin post-processing of the corrected material. As new audio becomes available, it will mean more manual correction, then re-running the automated post-processing actions I’m about to write.
Immediate Next Steps:
- Write a Python script to error-check the transcript by looking for out-of-order timestamps.
- Write a Python script to flip the MET to GET (the 2-hour 40-minute launch delay correction) at the right epoch in the mission.
- Enact timecode change within the Premiere project by moving the timing of each clip after the epoch up by 2:40 (or possibly overlaying a second timecode to show the difference between corrected and elapsed. I have to talk to some people about what is best for posterity).
Next Big Steps:
- Create a script that renders the corrected transcript data into Apollo Flight Journal HTML format, and work with AFJ to get Apollo 17 online.
- Create a video playback solution for the Premiere segments of the entire mission.
- Create a link between video playback and HTML transcripts. Allow jumping within the transcript by scrubbing video. Allow scrubbing of video by clicking a timecode within the transcript.