Given the post by Peter on Prattlings advertising that our next podcast 4 would be up on the 18th of August I knew that I had to get my act together. Seeing as how the files were all on the Mac I decided to use Audacity on the Mac to assemble the program. (I am still having trouble getting Garage Band to upload an iPod sound file without it sounding like the chipmunks had invaded. These despite having seen the Apple demonstrators simply drag and drop just such a file and then use it to develop a podcast file.)
To start to involve the children in the process and to make the process less reliant on me I showed some of the children some basic Audacity editing and set them to removing ums and ahs and silent spaces. They took to this like the proverbial duck with water.
Come the end of the day I took over. I was almost finished by the time the cleaner came to hustle me out of the school. Today I came back to finish the job which I did in no time flat and I soon had the mp3 file being mixed.
Imagine however my horror when I went to play the file and the file was full of silence. Around two hours went down the gurgler in less than two minutes. This has not been the first time that I have been let down by Audacity on the Mac. I shall have to make sure that I get the problems with Garage Band and the iPod ironed out post haste or find out where the glitch in the Mac/Audacity lies.
Anyway having transferred the sound files back to the PC and having spent the two hours again stitching together and re-editing the files I am now able to publish the cast. Phew!!!!!!!!
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