Dealing with preferences, display set up, and filling in file info.
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The next one will be dealing with editing (joy...) Still taking suggestions for tutes
here.
I'm very much looking forward to future tutorials form you! :)
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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.
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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 ;)
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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 ;)
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It's true, there's heaps and heaps of stuff on windows that mac won't have/ has a subpar version of-- I think the accepted norm is that mac is awesome for audio/visual graphics type work?
And sorry about the mix up! Clearly I am terrible at reading comprehension. And don't worry about your software spiel -- when people are passionate about something, it's always really interesting!
God, I dislike audacity. Before I had access to a macbook I tried to use audacity on my windows laptop and--
::shakes fist::
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LOL that's alright. And out of curiosity, what did you hate so much about Audacity? Just didn't jive with your style?
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When I ventured onto Audacity, I had been using Garageband for a good while, about two months? And I thought the program most preferred by podficcers must be alright... but yeah, not my style at all :( It crashed a lot, it didn't retrieve before save when it did crash, and it crashed with greater frequency for projects that went past half an hour. It also kept making new tracks every time I wanted to pause recording, and because I am a edit as you go type, I just kept getting more and more pissed off with it. I'm also a very visual person, and I couldn't work the way I wanted to on Audacity. Basically the things I could achieve on Audacity I could achieve more efficiently on Garageband, if I could achieve them on Audacity at all.
I suppose someone might come and school me on how Audacity is awesome and way better than Garageband, but until that happens I'm sticking with my boxcars :)
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Hmmm. I haven't actually had a whole lot of crashing problems yet, but A) I haven't been using it for too long, and B) I haven't used it for anything longer than 35 minutes or so.
I can totally see how it wouldn't work well for an edit-as-you-go type. I edit after recording, so that's not so much a problem with me.
I'd actually be really curious to hear the thoughts of someone who runs Audacity on Mac (rather than use Garageband), since most people I know use Garageband if they've got it.
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I don't know if audacity is very handy for edit as you go types, but gb definitely is! i find edits as you go to be a much faster process, though it could just be me.
If you'd like to pick the brain of an audacity mac user, mific if the person to talk to!
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IDK, I've never tried. I actually started out with the very first podfic I started recording (which I never finished, and hope to redo one of these days) doing edit-as-you-go, but I was bothered by how the sound quality changed when I took a break and came back, and found that I ended up re-recording huge chunks because every time I stopped to edit, it would pull me out of the story. Then I read some tutorial that mentioned reading it all at one time and then editing, and I went "DOI! That makes sense." *facepalm*
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I can squish my file sizes pretty small, and split them into smaller .rar files if I really want to ( read: way too lazy to do that ). I'm the type that doesn't like having more than one file if I can help it.
Edit as you go ( or as I call it, fuck I am lazy ) does get a bad rap for the reasons you've mentioned, but to prevent the difference in voice change, initially I put in music breaks to hide it. Since then, I've learnt better tricks to make it sound as though it was done in one sit in. It's never going to sound as seamless as the editing after recording technique, which I am endlessly impressed with, but it's not bad for my standards!
It always seems so obvious when someone else says it doesn't it? But at least you know now! Yay Internet!
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I don't loathe editing with a passion or anything -- it's more the idea of it than the actual practice. But this is why I'm a edit-as-I-go. I've kind of got a podfic beta to make up for it, but I don't like to impose too much since I don't want to make her listen to stories that don't interest her... On the other hand, I do edit heaps on shorter pods. Hm.
I think making it sound like one sit in is something I can't actually teach -- I definitely don't think any of mine sound like they are! I'll pass on your tips though :)
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That makes sense. Out of curiosity, what do you edit on shorter pods that's different from longer ones?
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On shorter pods, it's much easier to have a mental image of what you'd like the pod to sound like, so I'm more likely to go back and re-edit and re-edit until I start approaching something close to what I initially imagined. It's much more difficult to do this for something more than half an hour, because I don't have the time to sit through the reading for that long, and it's hard to remember exactly how the entire thing should sound. So, I find it easier to map shorter pods, I guess?
Also, I am super lazy, so editing a long podfic -- again -- is not something my mind wants to accept. I envy readers who tough it out and edit like madmen. I'd have a much better product if I was anywhere half as conscientious.
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