The 2023 Crunchyroll Anime Awards

A live stream of the 2023 Crunchyroll Anime Awards show. The original program was translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic.

Dates:

3/4/23

Roles:

Interpretation Producer 

Produced and directed the interpretation of the program into six different languages.

Primary responsibilities include: 

  • Provide interpreters with updated show rundowns and scripts

  • Feed main program feed to interpreters

  • Add interpreted audio into new program feeds

  • Direct interpreters on upcoming segments

  • Make any necessary adjustments to the translated audio

  • Send new program mixes with the translated audio to the destinations

Encoding Engineer 

Manages the stream and ensures end-to-end quality, monitors recordings, and reports status as needed.

Primary responsibilities include: 

  • Gather streaming credentials from the client

  • Collect stream Title, Thumbnail, Description, and Watch Page URL from clients (if necessary)

  • Perform test streams to platform(s)

  • Ensure clean and proper transmissions of streams

  • Configure encoder and adjust resolution, bitrate, etc as needed

  • Initiate and manage streams on the platform side

  • Start, Stop, and Manage records 

  • Note the start and end timecode of records

  • Manage stream distribution/transcoding 

  • Push streams to GO LIVE on platforms as directed

  • Ensure audio and video quality, audio sync, and captions by monitoring the final stream on consumer page(s)

  • Communicate any issues immediately to the Producer / Director 

  • Document (at regular intervals determined by the producer, the concurrent viewership, total viewership, health, and other key metrics

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