Podcasting For Rookies

Beth KoskiBobee Bero

May Montezon

Agenda What equipment will you need? What software must you download? Tips for writing your script. How to add music for free. Where will you host your podcast?

Podcast Training Why are we creating this content? Who is our audience? What do we want our webinar to achieve? When and how are we developing the

content? Where are we going to host our webinar? Evaluate the hosting site and why this was

our best choice?

Audacity Look for this symbol

What is Audacity? An open source cross-platform for recording

and editing software program. Audacity is developed by group of

volunteers and distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL)

It is called open source because their source code is available to anyone or use.

Audacity can be used: To record live audio Import and export sound files using WAV, AIFF, AU,

FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis files. Also, MPEG can be import using libmad and export MP3 files using LAME encoder library.

Edit or combine files or new recordings Supports 16 bit, 24 bit, and 32 bits Easy to edit with copy, paste and cut feature. Can create voice-overs for podcast or DJ sets using

auto duck effect. Runs on Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux

operating systems.

System Requirements before downloading Audacity For windows

Mac System Requirements Recommend with at least 1GB RAM and

1GHz processor audacity would run best with these requirements. If audacity would be used for lengthy multi-track project, it would need a minimum of 2GB RAM and 2GHz processor on OX 10.7 or later.

Linux System Requirements Recommends to use the latest version of

GNU/Linux from your distribution that is compatible with hardware specifications. Audacity will run best with the least of 64 MB RAM and a 300 MHz processor.

How to download Audacity?1. Go to http://audacity.sourceforge.net/2. Click download 3. Under windows tab click

Audacity 2.0.2 installer (.exe file, 20.4 MB, including help files) for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8

4. Follow the instructions for installing and after installing you can use the program.

Lame is an open source application used to encode audio into the MP3 file format.

Lame was created by Mike Cheng in 1989, it is a recursive acronym for:

Lame Ain’t an MP3 Encoder

Lame

The acronym reflects the early history when it was not an encoder but a set of patches against the freely available ISO demonstration source code.

Now that is a MP3 encoder the LAME acronym has become a misnomer.

LAME

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