In keeping with my rework of the blog, I am not going to do much more than mention a few tools and link to them, but as always, if you have questions or comments please email me or post them below.
Audio Podcasts
There are quite a few good audio recording and editing packages, but one of the most versatile and powerful is Audacity. It can easily record and edit together a professional sounding audio podcast. It is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and it can export to regular MP3 files as long as you download the LAME library.
GarageBand is similar to Audacity and has a mode specifically geared towards podcasting. It is easy and integrates well with iWeb, if you are using that for your website. It can also export as regular MP3 or AAC files to be used with pretty much anything.
Video Podcasts
Video podcast depend on much because of the varying edit methods and file types and more. So, one of the biggest issues is keeping it simple.
The best way I have found to do this is using FLIP cameras. They are relatively in expensive and come with their own editing software that is the same on every computer (Windows, there is also a slightly different Mac version included). You can use this software or other software such as iMovie or Windows Movie Maker.
Publishing
Now, for what makes a podcast a podcast - publishing and updating. Now viewers don't have to go to your site, they don't have to download anything manually, it all just works.
The magic behind this is RSS (Really Simple Synchronization). To do this, you must have an XML file that contains your podcast details. This is a little complicated, but thankfully, there are tools to do this for us.
The best I have found is Podcast Maker. This allow for easy configuration of servers and uploading. Unfortunately it is Mac only and I have not found a comparable Windows tool. If you know of one, please post it in the comments or email me. I will continue my search and let you know if I find one.
As always, if you have any questions or additions, email me or post a comment.
1 comments:
I've been thinking about this alot... and I agree with you to some degree.
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