Dear list, I have done a lot of planning on podcasting to our community, as far as uncovered subjects go, but there's yet a lot of work ahead before I can get something out. What I'm interested in to learn now, is how folks like the ones from Serotalk, VoiceOverOn, the tech doctor and others, are doing their interviews with people elsewhere, because their work sounds so well, audio wise. I will be doing podcasts together with one other person to begin with, and later go from there if appropriate, so I'm hoping you can give me some good advice.
My thought is that serotalk, tech doctor and others, are on skype with their other parties in the show, but that they may record their own speech, asking the other party to do the same on their end, both using reasonable equipment, and not, for example, their internal mac mikes, so that everyone on the podcasts sounds hifi, and not skype like. Then, the other party's quality audio recording could be sent to the interviewer, who mixes these tracks together in amadeus or an equivalent multi track recorder. But this is a wild guess of how I think it might be done. How are you all doing that, if you want to avoid the skype audio quality? Or is skype good enough, as long as you have a good enough mike to preserve the high frequencies? I'm amazed how well the main serotalk podcast always sounds. The tracks sound slightly denoised, with a little ambient subtile living room effect to avoid audio dryness, and all people on the cast are nicely panned in stereo, but I usually don't notice drop outs, that do happen on a skype call, as UDP packets get lost in the voice transmission. Thinking one step further. so then, once all audio tracks from all parties are in one audio editor on one computer, can you manipulate their starting times, to get things lined up nicely? If one party started the recording earlier or later than others in the podcast, locally on their end, which I think is likely to occur, how do you deal with this line up issue in the audio mix down? Can you also move a block of audio, a sentence or less, ahead or back, relative to other tracks while keeping things lined up, in other words, avoiding the tracks fall out of sync with each other? Also, to avoid hmm, yes, indeed, yup, and so on from a listening party while someone else explains their subject, Can you also delete those pieces of audio from a track, while creating a gap in the track, whose length is equal to the audio being cut out, so that the tracks still line up nicely after the cut out? Is the tool you use, indeed amadeus, or a different piece of software? Are you blind and can you do it all accessibly, or do we need sighted assistance to do the post editing? Thanks for your answers in advance. So far, I only did podcasts for the Dutch local blind community, and I'd like to take this a step further now. If you have different aploaches, please let me know. Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
