March 3rd, 2008
2008 is doing a grand job of eliminating noise and embracing substance - I am sensing an optimism on one particular area that I have not seen for the past two years. This year, podcasting (for want of an alternate name) is finally forging onwards and upwards.
Is podcasting truly mainstream? Big media content is perhaps [...]
November 4th, 2007
This weekend is planning and execution weekend (no rolling heads involved) for the Table Rappers: Persistent Spirit audio novel.
First some time yesterday morning to plan out the workload leading up to release of the promos and prelude episode by the end of November. There is a huge amount to accomplish - far more than any [...]
March 8th, 2007
If I was going into business within the UK podcasting space right now (note I don’t refer to it as an industry), what would I do?
Set up a network? No.
To make this work commercially takes money, real money. There are already a small number of players here and the set-up time curve is way too [...]
January 19th, 2007
Pro-level (expensive) sound editing apps aside, I’ve never found anything to beat Amadeus for fast, clean, ‘get-it-done-now’ audio editing. It has always been responsive and reliable; one of those old-faithful, essential tools. I was delighted to see yesterday that Amadeus is now called Amadeus Pro and has upped its game considerably.
The first and most obvious [...]
August 31st, 2006
If there’s one clear message from the rise of this thing we currently call podcasting (both audio and video) the traditional media industry needs to pay attention to, it’s that the secret is out: creating content people want to watch or listen to is not as hard or expensive to produce as they’ve led us [...]
August 6th, 2006
Perhaps some further messing with the sensitivity settings would help there.After re-recordign the missing parts, I found that the project file on disk was over twice the size I am used to seeing for an approx 30 minute show (over 750Mb as opposed to around 300Mb), and that was not including the files for the two music tracks…. Saving the file and restarting Übercaster returned the audio and during my last re-recording session this problem did not re-appear.Übercaster is certainly going to be a cracking application once these bugs are ironed out and I’m still going to continue using it on the next Minor Technicality so I can learn more about how it works.
July 29th, 2006
In particular the way in which it separates out the primary tasks of : Assembling audio clips, music, mic inputs etc.Recording the podcast itself, slapping everything together in real timeEditing, mixing and assembling the final audioEncoding, publishing and uploadingAll this in one application and it includes a kernal extension (currently only in Alpha) which permits direct recording from Skype, iChat and Gizmo.Recording is different to other audio recording applications. Once you have assembled all the items you need for the programme, as organised or haphazardly as you wish in the application window, you start recording the programme n real time, clicking each audio clip or music piece as and when necessary (no more drag and drop in post or stopping recording to import a file or two).Editing then moves to an interface very similar to Apple’s Garageband where each assembled item (audio clip, music, recorded mic input) is available in its own audio channel ready to be moved around, mixed, edited, etc. And that’s the edge this application has over others: the ability to record in real time, adding sounds and clips in on the fly yet maintaining a full editable state for post production afterwards.
June 12th, 2006
There seems to have been a recent rush of podcast businesses. Small and large companies alike are springing up with the remit to produce podcasts for other business and make a fat lump of cash in return. But how many of these are actually doing the business they are making so much noise about?