how to create an audio slide show using soundslides (fall11 pj version)
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How to Create an Audio SlideShow Using Soundslides
Mark Berkey-Gerard, Journalism Department, Rowan University
Audio Slide Show
Three stages:
1. Gathering and editing audio
2. Gathering and editing images
3. Producing audio slide show by synching sounds to images
Think Story First
What do you want to
communicate?
One idea.
Keep it simple.
Audio
Good audio is the basis of multimedia.
Audio
VoicesMusic
EmotionPeople telling their own stories in their
own wordsAllows audience to imagine visuals
Audio
WHAT YOU NEED TO GATHER AUDIO:
•Digital recorder (that saves as .wav, .wma or .mp3 format)
•Headphones
•Microphone
•Cables
•Backup batteries
Editing Audio
Audio Editing Programs for Beginners
Garage Band (for Macs)
Audacity (for PCs and Macs) – Free download
Editing Audio
Common Types of Audio Files You Should Be Able to Recognize
.wma (windows media audio)
.wav (uncompressed windows file)
.mp3 (most universal audio format – the Soundslides format)
.aiff (Mac and standard podcasting format)
Editing Audio
1. Plug your recorder into the USB.
2. Drag your audio file(s) onto your desktop.
3. Make a copy. Ctrl and Click. Duplicate.
4. Edit the copy, NOT the original.
Editing Audio
Switch Audio Converter
A free download.
Works on both
Macs and PCs.
Installed in Boz 134.
Editing Audio
Switch Audio Converter
1. Go>Applications>Switch
2. Drag file in.
3. Set Output to .aiff for Garageband or .wav for Audacity.
4. Hit “Convert” button
Editing Audio
•Audio length = slide show length.
•General rule is one photo for every five seconds of audio (ie 90 sec = 18 photos)
•Export as .mp3 – High Quality
Photos•Take a lot of photos
•You need one image for every five seconds of edited audio. (i.e. 90 sec = 18 images)
•Wide, medium, close-ups.
•People. Action. Telling details.
Preparing Photos
•Select only the photos you want to use•Crop•Rotate•Color Correction•Make sure they are saved as full sized .jpg “High Quality”•Put them in a folder
Soundslides
•Made by journalists for journalists
•Application for creating slide shows and audio slide shows for the Web
•The standard at many online news publications
Soundslides Plus
• Easy to Use
• Works on both MACs and PCs
• Cost $69.95. But you download free
version. It will display “Demo” at beginning,
• Can only be purchased from website.
Soundslides
Soundslides will:
•resize all of your images for you
•allow you to order them any way you wish
•take care of file name and linking
•retrieve any embedded caption information
Soundslides
Soundslides will NOT:
•rotate your images
•allow color correction
•crop or allow you to crop
•allow editing of audio files
Soundslides
1. Open Sound Slides program (Go>Applications>Sound Slides Plus)
2. Upload Photos (JPG button and select entire folder).
3. Upload Audio (SND button).
Soundslides
Edit your slide show.
Adjust the timing for each image, drag the ends in the timeline at the bottom.
Click the play button to preview the audio track and adjust the timing of the images.
Save every time you make a change.
Soundslides
Save.
Export. It will create a folder called publish_to_web.
Save that entire folder as well as your original files.
Soundslides
Publish_To_Web folder contains all of the
information for your slide show:
• images of different sizes
• audio file
• HTML code
• Flash code (.swf)
Soundslides
Important: The entire contents of the
Publish_To_Web folder must be put on
your website in order for the slide show
to work properly.
Soundslides
Putting Your Slide Show Online
Best option for you is to convert to video
1. Export and Zip.
2. Upload to Soundslides Video Converter
3. Post to YouTube, blog, or burn to a disk.
Soundslides
Other helpful tutorials at
http://markberkeygerard.com/tutorials/
Soundslides
Also see the “Support” page of the
Soundslides website at
http://support.soundslides.com/