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How to get great audio for podcast interviews

The Verge

We asked The Verge ’s senior audio engineer Andrew Marino if he had any audio tips for people who are about to participate in a podcast. We do a lot of audio tests of wireless earbuds and headphones in our Verge reviews , and I can’t think of any that compare to the microphones on the average smartphone.

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Live Blogging Podcamp: Steve Garfield's Thunderstorm of Podcasting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They can listen to the audio, follow links, and leave comments. You Can Use Your Phone or your digital camera with video: He demonstrated how to do an audio podcast with your cell phone and a video podcast with his camera using hipcast. His camera is a Cannon SD300, but the newer versions have better audio quality.

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Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro (2020) review: return to baseline

The Verge

At one point last week, I had Chrome and Safari open with 10 or so tabs each, plus a couple of Electron apps, Lightroom CC, Zoom, and QuickTime. On top of that, one of those tabs was running a videoconference over WebRTC, and I was recording audio via Audio Hijack and using Bluetooth headphones.

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Connect with TechSoup at NCVS!

Tech Soup

ReadyTalk — This standard for webinar production offers integrated slides, screensharing, live moderated chat, and high-quality recorded audio. WebEx and GoToMeeting , available through TechSoup, offer free iPad apps and easy availability on mobile devices.

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Learning Journal: Experimenting With Adding Music to Web Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lack of technical skills or software tools in cutting, splicing, fading the audio and weaving it with the video track. You can't "silence" the audio in the video by clip or sections of the story board. Tools: -Windows Movie Maker -QuickTime Pro. My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap.

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

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-I originaly produced this at 800x600 as a SWF with highest quality audio/video and the resulting file was a whooping 72,000 KB. I rendered ten different versions (6 in SWF with different audio sampling and video frame rates and sizes) and 2 in Quicktime and 2 in WMF.) My work flow. I created a storyboard with small scenes.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We managed to get a medium quality Quicktime stream that we put into Second Life, and higher quality Flash video stream , that we made available on the web. We just sent it out, but it is really great to have people provide feedback in audio, text, or video form. VoiceThread has so many ways you can creatively use it.