making a podcast

geekgirl

Hi, I have searched the forum but didn't come up with anything.

Has anyone here made a podcast who can recommend the process/software that they have used. I will be using a PC (shame because on my mac it is a click of a button).

It would be great if the process is free as I work for a charity, but please still recommend if the software you use is good but cheapish if you get my drift. Simplicity is also good!

I have googled it but as you can imagine come up with so much stuff would prefer something someone has used and can vouch for.

Thanks.

timbim_2

Use Audacity to record audio and edit, put together in multi-track, then export as MP3 and upload to hosting. Hardware wise, you'll want a decent microphone, one with a USB connection is probably best if you don't have a decent sound card and DI box, which I doubt.

Marty_J

Why can't you use your Mac?

geekgirl

Marty_J wrote: »

Why can't you use your Mac?

Can't use my mac as I am doing it at work and they have all PC's.

geekgirl

timbim wrote: »

Use Audacity to record audio and edit, put together in multi-track, then export as MP3 and upload to hosting. Hardware wise, you'll want a decent microphone, one with a USB connection is probably best if you don't have a decent sound card and DI box, which I doubt.

Forgot to say that we have sound forge that we will be using to edit the clips. We do have a couple of good mics but the dialogue that we are using is already recorded.

Thanks.

timbim_2

Then it's just a case of pulling it all into soundforge and editing into a podcast. Easy, but hard to do well.

geekgirl

The editing won't be a problem as it is an interviewer asking questions and then the answer. I will just be removing the questions so that it flows like a story, I have been doing this for some time for sound clips anyway so shouldn't be a problem.
I was under the impression that for it to be a podcast rather than just a soundclip on a web page it had to be made into an RSS feed. Is that right?

Lakeuk

RSS & Podcast - following sites will give you an overview for how to put together a RSS file documenting you podcast

http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/podcasts/specs.html
http://www.podcast411.com/howto_1.html

Lakeuk

Forget the previous links, watch the youtube video for a simple walkthrough

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4rz0jSXvG8

geekgirl

Lakeuk wrote: »

Forget the previous links, watch the youtube video for a simple walkthrough

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4rz0jSXvG8

Thanks very straightforward. Appreciated. :beer: