Announcement: podfic_tips Community
This post is to announce the creation of the podfic_tips community. If you need help on any aspect of making podfic or podbooks, podfic_tips is the place to ask. If you want to offer help then podfic_tips is the place to offer.
Topics can include:
The only dumb question is the one you don't ask. I want to make sure the community is always newbie friendly as well as useful for oldbies with technical queries like "Why doesn't this podcast feed validate?" and "What's the lowest sampling rate I can use without degrading the quality too much?" and so forth. After all, at podficcing I am a newbie!
The community is for all podfic recorders and other behind-the-scenes people, regardless of the fandom/pairing/rating/etc. of the fic you work with. It's not for announcing new podfic is available (we have lots of communities for that already!), but if you want to post a pointer to your fic specifically to ask for constructive criticism that's OK.
The only real rules at the moment are to please play nice with the others, and try to keep vaguely on topic. We'll figure it out as we go, I hope. See you in podfic_tips!
MathMusician
Topics can include:
- Help, I want to make a podfic recording and I don't know where to start!
- What program do I need?
- I want to buy a microphone, which one's best?
- Where can I upload my podfics?
- How should I talk to make a good recording?
- What's the difference between a podfic and a podbook? How do I make a podbook?
- How do I manage to read this story without dying of sheer embarassment and giggling?
- I have a recording done, will somebody give me constructive criticism on it?
- What should I do when I mess up a word? I don't want to record it all again, but it sounds dumb!
- Can I edit the background noise out of my recording?
- How do I put cover art on my recording?
- ... and anything else that you can think of!
The only dumb question is the one you don't ask. I want to make sure the community is always newbie friendly as well as useful for oldbies with technical queries like "Why doesn't this podcast feed validate?" and "What's the lowest sampling rate I can use without degrading the quality too much?" and so forth. After all, at podficcing I am a newbie!
The community is for all podfic recorders and other behind-the-scenes people, regardless of the fandom/pairing/rating/etc. of the fic you work with. It's not for announcing new podfic is available (we have lots of communities for that already!), but if you want to post a pointer to your fic specifically to ask for constructive criticism that's OK.
The only real rules at the moment are to please play nice with the others, and try to keep vaguely on topic. We'll figure it out as we go, I hope. See you in podfic_tips!
MathMusician