Monday, April 16, 2007

StoryPod - Casting out the glitches... too fancy, too quickly

We are still in the development and learning phase
of podcasts. We found that some people cannot open the
prototype podcasts listed to the right
Well, it is because I got too fancy!
Because there are photos with the sound included INSIDE
the podcast and one needs a very up to date computer to
open the file.
With this new info
we will redo these podcasts and repost ASAP.

So here is more info than many would like
but just what I needed to know...taken from:

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http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/index.php

By Christopher Breen
Export AIFF podcasts in GarageBand


I create my podcasts in GarageBand and I generally like the program. One thing bugs me though. GarageBand will only export my podcasts as compressed audio files. I’d like to export my podcasts as uncompressed AIFF files so I can use other utilities that don’t work with MPEG-4 files to process them.


It is annoying that GarageBand doesn’t offer an obvious option for exporting podcast projects as AIFF files. But the key word here is obvious. It can be done, but Apple doesn’t make it clear how.

After you’ve assembled all the audio bits of your podcast—but not added any “podcasty” stuff such as graphics and chapter markers—select the Podcast track at the top of the GarageBand window and press Command-Delete to remove it. When you do so, GarageBand will treat the project like a song rather than a podcast. This is important because when GarageBand sends a podcast to iTunes, it does so as a .m4v file. When it sends a song to iTunes, it sends it as an AIFF file.


Why not just create a song project in the first place if you’re going to export your podcast as an AIFF file? Choosing a podcast project from the get-go provides you with that nice little podcast template—one that includes vocal tracks with the right effects already applied as well as the Jingles and Radio Sounds tracks that many podcasters find useful....>>

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