As it was the hols I decided to actually trial something before inflicting it on my poor long suffering students. I took the scans from Pete’s book on pigeons and loaded them into Photo Story 3. No problems there. Next it was on to the vocal track.
Hmmm seems you can actually record straight into P/Story!! Ah yes but you can also import a track as music or vocals and ignore the straight record. Getting the iPod out I read the pages in my best narrator style. Now to upload. Oh dear the format straight from the iPod isn’t recognised by P/Story. OK I will put the iPod sound into Audacity and convert it to mp3, (this is already starting to be a bit complicated…..). Never mind persistence is important.
Okay now the P/Story has accepted my mp3 files however the sound is rather tinny and I can’t seem to tweak it any way to make it warmer. When I try to record straight into P/Story however my vocal is back to the natural warm narrative I normally speak in???
Ah but when I go to publish the final story alas only the first imported track plays and the rest of the show has this hissing sound in the background. Maybe I have moved through too many steps and given the difference in sound quality anyway maybe I will just have to get the students to record straight into Photo Story and forget about the iPods. Strike one against the iPods.
