Software

Ladies and Gentlemen...
A moment of silence for the big moment- the time has come! After all of our countless hours researching, blogging, writing and rewriting, the time has come for us to record our melodious voices into a software that will be around for the rest of eternity!

Dramatic? Me?! NEVER! However, I am super excited to put this project together! I cannot believe we are finally approaching the final point of the podcast. I have decided to record using the Apple app on my MacBook called Garageband. While I have used Audacity in the past to cut songs for dance, Garageband has a specific section for recording and editing material for podcasts. Not to mention the fact it has been a good year since I have used audacity and would have to relearn all the shortcuts for Audacity again. When searching help for understanding how to use Garageband for podcasts, I had a pretty good feeling Apple would have a webpage or two explaining the process. I was right! I found multiple extremely useful tutorials on Apple explaining how to record in general, adding jingles and sound effects, importing other media files and how to export the file as a podcast file. I also found an extremely well put together tutorial on YouTube, that was only 7 minutes long. It compliments the knowledge I have gained from Apple, and hits the main points that are needed to make a podcast. Many other YouTube tutorials are around half an hour long, which not only were too long but not as informative. Also, the longer ones seemed to be for real 'tech' junkies, using some language I did not understand and getting into functions that are not necessary for me to complete my fairly simply podcast assignment!

I usually pick up these sort of online and technology based systems pretty well, so I feel like I have a pretty good idea of what I am doing. Knock on wood, I think I should be able to hit this one out of the park! I recorded some practice material, and layered a song in the background to try a sort of 'intro' experiment, and I was very impressed with the quality of sound, and the ease and efficiency I was able to complete that task. I am very excited to get going on this, as now that I know it isn't going to be that hard to make the podcast, my brain has begun to spin with ideas of what I can do!!

Best of luck to everyone on their final products!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W06GHAhO6Uw
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2012?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US