<div dir="ltr"><div><p align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;margin:20px"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.rigtrain.co.uk/" target="_blank"><img alt="RIG logo" src="http://www.rigtrain.co.uk/images/logos/RIGtrain-logo-SMALL-cropped.png" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="width: 141.391px;"></a></font></font></font></p><p align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;margin:20px"><br></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin:20px"><span style="text-align:-webkit-center;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Just </span><span class="gmail-m_5624382751565516815red_text" style="text-align:-webkit-center;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(255,0,0)">seven days</span><span style="text-align:-webkit-center;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> to get your entries in for this year's</span><strong style="text-align:-webkit-center;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> Audio Production Awards</strong><span style="text-align:-webkit-center;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">! See the flyer below and for more details go to the dedicated website at </span><a href="http://www.audioproductionawards.co.uk/" target="_blank" style="text-align:-webkit-center;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">www.audioproductionawards.co.<wbr>uk</a><span style="text-align:-webkit-center;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">. Or if you are sure of the categories, entry requirements and other details, you can go straight to the submission website </span>a t<a href="http://www.judgify.me/2017apas" target="_blank" style="text-align:-webkit-center;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">www.judgify.me/2017apas</a></p><p style="margin:20px"><a href="http://www.judgify.me/2017apas" target="_blank" style="text-align:-webkit-center"></a><font style=""><strong style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">A note on audio file sizes</strong><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> - submissions are limited by the Judgify website to 50 MB per entry, which is plenty for the 15-minute portfolios.</span></font><br><br>However<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> if you're submitting a 30-minute file (permitted for the Drama and Audiobook/Readings categories) and you save as </span></font>an MP3<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> at highest-quality settings, you may exceed 50MB. If so, please either reduce your sampling rate (try for example 224 instead of 320) or select Variable Bit-rate - any reduction in audio quality is likely to be undetectable in reality, and in any </span></font>case<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> the judges will know the restrictions, and it's the same for everyone. </span></font><a href="mailto:webmaster@rigtrain.co.uk" target="_blank" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Email</a><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> if you'd like any assistance on this point.</span></font><br><br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Remember </span></font><strong style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">you only have until midnight on Tuesday the 26th September!</strong><br><br><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">And good luck </span></font></font></p><p style="margin:20px"><font style=""><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Mike Hally, for the</span></font>APAs<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> team - email </span></font><a href="mailto:team@audioproductionawards.co.uk" target="_blank" style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">team@audioproductionawards.co.<wbr>uk</a><br></font></p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px"><p align="center" style="margin:20px"><a href="http://www.audioproductionawards.co.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.audioproductionawards.co.uk/images/images_misc/APA-Flyer-V2.jpg" width="85%" alt="APAs flyer 20176" class="gmail-CToWUd"></a></p></font></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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