#1 - The basics

[lunchy_munchy]

Dealing with preferences, display set up, and filling in file info.

Download the .mov file at mediafire (40.61MB)

Please leave a comment and tell me what you think!

The next one will be dealing with editing (joy...) Still taking suggestions for tutes here.

Comments

[bessyboo]

Oh man, this was awesome! I'm a Windows user, unfortunately, so it's not much help to me (maybe I shall have to borrow my sister's macbook to experiment?), but this turned out really well, it looks quite professional :D (I kind of really wish someone would do one of these for Audacity now...)

I'm very much looking forward to future tutorials form you! :)

[lunchy_munchy]

Thank you! I'd be STOKED if you decided to give GarageBand a try after this! It'll get pretty topic specific after this, so you might find it easier to follow along having some experience with it ;)

I hope someone does make an audacity video tute series! It's much easier to understand what's going on when you have it in front of you like this, I think. The program I used to make this vid is Mac only, but I'm sure there's like, 30 windows alternatives.

[bessyboo]

Unfortunately, the only Macs I have access to are my sister & stepmom's laptops, and my stepmom's is for work, so, no. We'll, uh, see how convincing my sister to let me borrow hers for half an hour or so next time I'm over for dinner goes...(I'm not holding my breath.)

Oh, I totally agree. I'm a longtime techie, so most of these programs come very naturally to me, but I've recently switched to Audacity from Roxio 2010 Sound Editor, and am still figuring out all the little quirks and shortcuts, so if someone did a series of video tutes they would pretty much be my best friend right now ;)

[lunchy_munchy]

Pants :(

I'm a total Mac convert, even though it's all windows at work. I just really love how they build their programs and how user friendly they are! Once you learn a set of skills on one mac program, the next program is very much the same (or so it's been for me so far).

I've not heard of Roxio 2010 Sound Editor, but it sounds pretty hip! Perhaps you'll be the one to make some tutes for that one ;)

[vensre]

::beams:: I approve of that podding material~~~

It turned out so good! Very very helpful, I think - clear and efficient too. And now I'm thinking of downloading Safari for myself, because I need that reader function!

I wonder, where do you get that statistic about the human voice? You really have me curious now.

[lunchy_munchy]

I picked up that bit of trivia on one of the comms, but it's been reinforced by a lot of "optimized" options in various programs. GarageBand has stereo optimized at 64, and even the program I used to make the tute had audio defaulted as 64.

I ended up writing a script and reading off of it, editing my footage around it. Hopefully it won't take as long to do the next one now that I've stumbled around on this one.

I love the reader function. That's why I said it was going to be cake to make the radio PDF without using ao3 :) it's pretty handy right?

[mific]

Thanks, am downloading the clip to watch - need to get over my garageband-avoidance!

[lunchy_munchy]

GarageBand can be your friend! It wants to be friends with you! :D

Seriously though, I hope you get some inspiration to give it a try. .

[lunchy_munchy]

That's great to hear! Good luck with it :D

[aphelant]

THANK YOU, again! I just used this tutorial to set up GarageBand for my very first Mac-made podfic. *___* It was super helpful (I was so lost!) but this tut has lots of excellent tips, especially for people who are...maybe...not used to using a Mac in the first place. ::shifty eyes::

\o/

[lunchy_munchy]

yay! I am super happy you found it helpful ♥
I'm really swamped at the moment so the editing tute is not going as smoothly as I had hoped, but hopefully it comes out sooner rather than later. If you need any help though, I'm all ears! (with my limited knowledge anyway).

Your pods sounded great before Garageband though, so I'm sure you'll be teaching me about things in no time!