Selling Jesus

This is the source code and content for https://sellingjesus.org

If anyone wants to republish our content, you can find it in original formats in here. SVGs for memes and Markdown for articles. The rest of this README is just notes relevant for the Selling Jesus team.

Setup

cp .env-example .env
# Manually add keys for services in .env
npm install
.bin/build  # Just to trigger initial detection of podcasts/videos etc.
.bin/serve

Publishing podcast episodes

1. .bin/update_podcast to add the new episode to podcast.json which can then be committed
   • This allows editing it via the CMS and reduces amount of work for each site build
2. Add transcript if desired
3. .bin/podcast_to_video to publish to Youtube

Posting videos to socials

Facebook

• Won't upload large videos (4GB didn't work where as 1GB did, same resolution)
• But they say they only support up to 720p anyway
• Use this to reduce size but keep resolution: ffmpeg -i sj.mp4 -c:a copy sj_reduced.mp4

Instagram

• Max length 1m30s
• Ideally 9:16 aspect, or at least 1:1
• Crop to 9:16 with ffmpeg -i sj.mp4 -vf crop=1215:2160 -c:a copy sj_insta.mp4
• Crop to 1:1 with ffmpeg -i sj.mp4 -vf crop=2160:2160 -c:a copy sj_insta.mp4
• Users scroll through endless videos, so needs to be immediately attention grabbing

Youtube Shorts

• Upload as regular video, but ensure at least 1:1 or vertical aspect
• Must be less than 1 min

X

• Max resolution is 1080p and audio needs compressing too
• ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -s 1080x1920 out.mp4