Assignment 5: Podcast

Assignment Instructions:

Podcasting

EDIT AND ADJUST audio level for what you recorded
- Highlight the areas you want to delete and hit delete on your keyboard.
- Highlight the areas you want to add a filter to, then apply a filter: Effect>> Amplify
  - The first filter you should apply is “Amplify.” Just choose it and let the program calibrate the best level.
  - Try out other filters.
ALIGN your voice tracks
- Use the double arrow tool (in the top-left corner) to move any track right or left.
- Leave shot (around 1-to-3-seconds) silent gaps between each of your sound bites and at the beginning before the first sound bite.

IMPORT music:
- Download LEGAL music from the following Creative Commons web source (try to find some “ambient” music): https://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos
- Import the file to audacity.
- Keep the music on a separate sound track and clean/cut it.
- Start the music 3 seconds before your first sentence/voice starts, and keep it going 3 seconds after you last sentence/voice ends.

ADJUST the overall volume for the music and sound
- Make sure your sound bites and voice are clearly audible and significantly higher in volume than the music, and by adjusting the overall volume for each track using the levers on the left of each track.
- You can alternatively use FILTERS >> Amplify.

ADJUST the volume within each music segment
- This step allows you to bring the volume of the same segment up/down at certain intervals. Use the double triangle tool (top-left). The goal is to bring the music up when you are not talking and bring it back down when your voice or a sound bite is running.
- For the beginning and end of the music, you’ll need to insert TWO “key frames” only:
  - At the beginning of your story, have the music start loud and then dip when you start talking. At the ending, have the music go back up when you finish talking.
  - Click once at the beginning of where you want to start the volume up/down and again where you want to stop.
  - Click-hold the small white squares that appear and move up (for volume up) or down (for volume down).
- For the middle, you’ll need three keyframes.
  - In the middle between sentences or sound bites, have the music go up and then down again when the talking begins again.
  - Insert a key frame right after the talking starts, another right before it starts again, and a third in the middle.
  - Adjust the middle button to bring the volume up by lifting the small square up.
EXPORT the whole as MP3
- FILE >> Export As MP3 (make sure you save it somewhere accessible on your flash drive or personal network drive).
UPLOAD to your Soundcloud account.

Create a Soundcloud account if you do not have one.
Go to “Dashboard”
Go to “Upload and Share”
Click “Choose Files”, select the file you want to upload.
Fill the Title, Description, and Tags boxes
Choose the “Public” option
Save and check your “Dashboard” to make sure the track has uploaded. Click play and listen to it.

Resources:

Use these resources to download and convert video/audio from online sources like YouTube:
onlinevideoconverter.com
keepvid.com
keep-tube.com

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