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Title: Making Your Own Podcast


1
Making Your Own Podcast
  • Presented by the Science, Technology and Society
    program

2
Presenters
  • Melissa Moon, STS Program Coordinator
  • Dario Mendoza, STS Research Assistant

3
What is a podcast?
  • A podcast is a audio or video file that is
    distributed over the Internet for listening on
    mobile media devices or personal computers.
  • A podcast is basically a web feed of a video or
    audio file that users may subscribe to.

4
What is a podcast?
  • A podcast is typically an .mp3 file.
  • Each separate podcast is typically referred to as
    an episode.
  • A podcast is typically distributed by a url, the
    feed url, which is expected to be a permanent
    url.
  • A user may download episodes individually, or may
    subscribe to all episodes of a particular
    podcast.
  • You would download episodes individually when you
    are trying out a new podcast and are unsure about
    whether to subscribe or not.

5
Subscribing to a podcast
  • When you have found a podcast that you enjoy, it
    is best to subscribe to it.
  • You enter the feed url into a podcatcher which
    will automatically retrieve new episodes when
    available.
  • Podcatchers typically run at all times on your
    computer.
  • When a new episode becomes available, the
    podcatcher will automatically download the
    episode for you so you may listen to it when you
    want.
  • Popular podcatchers include iPodderX (Mac),
    iTunes (Mac/Windows), podnova (Mac/Windows),
    Juice (Mac/Windows)

6
Podcatcher links
  • iPodderX - http//ipodderx.com/
  • iTunes - http//www.apple.com/itunes/
  • Podnova - http//www.podnova.com/
  • Juice - http//juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/

7
Revolutionizing entertainment
  • How is the podcast revolutionary?
  • It allows the user to select which programs he or
    she wants to listen to or view.
  • Select only the content that interests you, as
    opposed to broadcast programs.
  • The user can listen or watch when he or she wants
    to
  • Podcasts are available any time of the day.
  • The user can listen or watch where he or she
    wants to
  • Anywhere there is a personal computer or wherever
    you are with your mobile media player.
  • The user can listen or watch how she wants to
  • You have complete control over the program you
    can fast-forward, rewind or pause at any time.
  • Any user can create his or her own show.
  • Any subject, any time.

8
Popular podcasts
  • According to Yahoo! Podcasts
  • 1. This Week in Tech
  • 2. NPR All Songs Considered
  • 3. Science Friday Making Science Radioactive
  • 4. ChinesePod Learn Mandarin Chinese
  • 5. Slate Magazine Podcasts
  • Source http//podcasts.yahoo.com/

9
For more information
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast
  • http//podcasts.yahoo.com/
  • http//www.podcast.net/
  • http//www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/

10
Creating your own podcast
  • Anyone can create his or her own show through
    podcasting.
  • The user determines everything the format, the
    subject, the length, etc

11
Two basic components
  • There are two basic components necessary to
    create a podcast
  • A personal computer
  • A microphone
  • This is the best investment you can make for your
    podcast.
  • The better the microphone, the better your
    podcast will sound, which results in better
    quality.
  • For more advanced users One other thing to
    consider is your soundcard. The better your
    soundcard, the better the quality of your
    podcast. A better soundcard can produce better
    audio and reduce hissing sounds.

12
Other essentials to the podcast
  • Headphones
  • Why headphones and not speakers?
  • Headphones enable you to hear every nuance of
    your podcast. They are much more precise than
    speakers.
  • The best investment would be over-the-ear
    headphones. These are better at canceling
    outside noise.

13
Choosing a client
  • You will need a podcasting client that will
    enable you to create your own podcast.
  • For Professionals Adobe Audition 1.5 (300)
  • This is for more advanced users.
  • http//www.adobe.com/products/audition/main.html
  • Open Source Audacity
  • This is the best option for people who are just
    getting into podcast creation.
  • Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
  • http//audacity.sourceforge.net/

14
Creating your podcast
  • Open the program, Audacity, that is on the
    desktop.
  • First we will need to set some initial settings
  • File ? Preferences ? Audio IO Tab
  • Set the soundcard for playback and recording.
  • Under recording setting, change recording to 1
    channel (mono).
  • Quality tab
  • Leave quality at the same (44100 hz).
  • Default sample rate lower to 16 bit.
  • File Format tab
  • Want to record uncompressed (WAV microsoft 16 bit
    PCM)
  • This will give you the best quality sound.
  • MP3 Export drop down to 64 for standard
    podcast.
  • You dont really need any higher quality than
    this.

15
Initial procedures
  • Select Project ? New audio track
  • Drag the audio track box down so it fills most of
    the Audacity window.
  • These are the initial tests in order to
    familiarize yourself with the client
  • You need to speak into the microphone in order to
    figure out how loudly you need to speak
  • -12 to -16 db is a good range. When you get near
    0, your voice will distort.

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Recording your podcast
  • Now you are ready to begin recording your own
    podcast.
  • Open a new project (File ? New Project)
  • Open a new audio track (Project ? New Audio
    Track)
  • Start recording!

17
Topic ideas
  • Sports
  • Politics
  • Music
  • Movies
  • TV Shows
  • Books
  • Anything else you can think of!

18
After you have finished recording
  • Some post-production steps
  • Reduce noise (Optional)
  • Record about 15 seconds of silence.
  • Select this silenced portion of the audio track
    and go to Effect ? Noise removal.
  • Click Get Noise Profile.
  • Then go into Effect and Noise removal again. Use
    the slider bar to determine how much noise you
    want removed.
  • Normalizing (Optional)
  • Bringing all your audio levels up to the same
    level.
  • For example If you used another source of audio
    like music.
  • Select low audio to amplify (want a consistent
    level across the board). Then select Effect ?
    Amplify. Uncheck the dont allow clipping box
    and select ok.
  • Now you will want to select the entire audio
    track. Click Effect ? Normalize and select ok.

  • Encoding (Necessary)
  • Go to File ? Export as .mp3.
  • Choose to save to the desktop.
  • E-mail to yourself so you have your own copy.

19
Making your podcast public
  • There are a variety of ways
  • Upload to your personal webspace
  • Personal website
  • Blog
  • Email / Instant Messenger
  • Podomatic

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Podomatic
  • Go to http//www.podomatic.com/
  • Register for an account
  • Log-in to your account
  • Select Podcast from the menu
  • Select Post Episode from the next menu
  • Fill out the different fields then click
    Import
  • Click Browse, and then select your personal
    podcast file. Select Use File.
  • Now select Publish.
  • Podomatic will now give you your own personal url
    for your podcast. You can now send this link to
    anyone and distribute your own personal podcast.
  • Whenever you want to update with new episodes,
    follow the same procedure.

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Thank You!
  • For more information on the Science, Technology
    and Society (STS) program visit our website
    www.sts.utexas.edu
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