What are you doing?

[Martin Donnelly - Unmajestic]

Oh, it's gone quiet again. Shame on you. So I have a question, what are
you doing in your podcast? What do you have planned? Anything special?

I won't kick it off because I don't want it to sound like a shameless
plug, so who wants to go first?

Martin
The Unmajestic Podcast
unmajestic.com

[Mark Kanter]

Oo Oo Me Me can I go first?

I just did a top 10 song podcast using podcastspots
free beta software. I called it Casey's Top 10

Check it out at http://caseystop10.libsyn.com

Let me know what you think of the songs I picked, by
adding a comment to the page.

How bout the rest of ya, whatcha upto?





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[Harold Johnson]

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[Philip Hodgetts]

At 10:13 PM +0000 9/27/05, Martin Donnelly - Unmajestic wrote:
>Oh, it's gone quiet again. Shame on you. So I have a question, what are
>you doing in your podcast? What do you have planned? Anything special?

The Digital Production BuZZ is meticulously planned as a one hour
live "talk radio style" show. Each show's music bed is edited in
advance, to the second and each show's guests are booked weeks in
advance. (Next openings are in the last two weeks of October).

It's a one hour live show with three phone-in guests - two longer
interviews, one short one for our "regional buzz". For each show
there's a show page up well in advance,
http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/LiveThisWeek/ and those pages
are linked from the graphic in the podcast feed.

For each show I prepare a show rundown, which usually runs about 8
pages, for myself and the co-host to make sure we have all the
information we need at our fingertips during the show.

We get a few dozen listen to the show live, but most listen in the
podcast. The live show is the podcast.

On average it takes about 8 hours a week, to prepare for a one hour
show, including the time to find and book guests.
--
Philip Hodgetts phi...@IntelligentAssistance.com
Managing Editor
Digital Production BuZZ

Ramy Katrib -
Digital Film Tree - Film and FCP
David Latt - The Asylum
Production FX and Distribution business
and our Regional BuZZ from Gainesville FL

Thursdays 6-7pm Pacific
http://www.DigitalProductionBuZZ.com
Talk radio for Digital Production,
Post Production and Distribution

[Martin Donnelly]

That sounds like a lot of work.

For our show I usually put together some news stories as the week
progresses, pulling out the ones that sound th most interesting.

We record on the Friday night so when I get in from work, I usually
spend the next four hours or so finding some music, working out the
order, writing some funny stuff.

If we recorded an on-location report, then that is processed for
insertion, that can take some time in itself.

Post production is usually done on the night with show notes and
uploading the following morning usually taking about an hour and a
half.

All this for a 45 minute long show. Man, this is a lot of work.

This week we are trying something special, a live call in show, it
might work, it might fall on its ass, but there is only one way for us
to find out, to grit our teeth and give it a try.

After 15 weeks of this, it is still a lot of fun and we both look
forward to the following week and the increasing number of listeners
we are getting.

MartinD
The Unmajestic Podcast
http://www.unmajestic.com

On 27/09/05, Philip Hodgetts <phi...@digitalproductionbuzz.com> wrote:
>
> At 10:13 PM +0000 9/27/05, Martin Donnelly - Unmajestic wrote:

> >Oh, it's gone quiet again. Shame on you. So I have a question, what are
> >you doing in your podcast? What do you have planned? Anything special?
>

[jimf...@gmail.com]

In our next episode, we will be taking a tour of the Latvian home for the
middle-aged, running a foot race with Zelda, carrying a very heavy rock
into the middle of nowhere and conducting a seance in which we hope to
contact those who have never existed and never will; just to see what it's
like.

Also, we will be interviewing 17 unfriendly pedestrians and 4 unwed co-workers.
If we can, we'll be doing our best to get Wilhelm on the line; that's
always very difficult, as I'm sure we all know... <g>

To round things out, we will be preparing and sampling a dish, sent into us
by a listener in North Schmeckt, for a tasty Lamb brittle, and trying with
it, some Flemish bakeapple wine.

As usual, we will be kicking off the new month with our, "what's in the
neighbours' sock drawer" segment.
It should all be very educational.

Just kidding... <g>

But tune in anyway and see what we're up to:
www.republicofavalonradio.com
The feed you need is:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/republicofavalonradio

Cheers,
Jim

www.jimfidler.com

Roots Cellar Productions Inc.
P.O. Box 5851 St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5X3
Tel: 1--709--726-8663 Fax: 1--709--726-3299
"There are 3 types of people: those who know, those who don't and those
who won't."

[Philip Hodgetts]

At 12:11 AM +0100 9/28/05, Martin Donnelly wrote:
>That sounds like a lot of work.
>
>For our show I usually put together some news stories as the week
>progresses, pulling out the ones that sound th most interesting.

News is updated on the website continuously during the week. But the
time for that isn't directly associated with the show because it's
also used in another business venture - the Pro Apps Hub. We do take
a single subject and discuss it in depth during the show.

>After 15 weeks of this, it is still a lot of fun and we both look
>forward to the following week and the increasing number of listeners
>we are getting.

15 weeks - you're just starting :). The Digital Production BuZZ is
up to it's 28th Show since May - we did 3 live shows from MacWorld, 3
from the show floor at DV Expo East and 3 from Siggraph in addition
to our regular shows. But in reality, we're now past a year of
podcasting and I'm almost finished my 4th year of weekly shows. Up
until NAB in April it was the DV Guys show - April 2000 to April 2005
and we picked up podcasting within about 4 weeks of the spec being
finished. (I think, the first week of October 2004 was our first).

By the end of this week's show I'll have interviewed 76 main guests
and 18 Regional BuZZ, and written over 500 news items, for this show
alone.

If you're interested in Digital Production, Post Production or
emerging distribution technologies the the Digital Production BuZZ is
probably the best way to keep informed and entertained.

Podcasting just adds another delivery mechanism.

Cheers

Philip

--
Philip Hodgetts phi...@IntelligentAssistance.com
Managing Editor
Digital Production BuZZ

Ramy Katrib -
Digital Film Tree - Film and FCP
David Latt - The Asylum
Production FX and Distribution business
and our Regional BuZZ

[mi...@concertblast.com]

CONCERT BLAST! is getting ready to hit the road again this weekend.
Traveling from Nashville to Memphis in order to attend the Mid-South Fair.
Not for the fair, but to have the rock stars of Saturday night's concert
on our next week's podcast. Stay Tuned to Concert Blast!


Mike Arnold
CONCERT BLAST!
website: http://www.concertblast.com
RSS Feed: http://www.concertblast.com/shows.xml

[cap]

I feel kinda silly (rather should I say modest). TheBizCast is loosely
categorized as a business podcast, but in reality it is me and my
friends talking about business concerns as well as work-life issues (
Seth trying to fire a nun at a hospital: episode 11, Dean ... talking
to his 7yr old son about the issues of intellectual property: episode
12, and so on...)

I don't claim to have ANY interview skills, nor engaging voice, nor any
true content... but it certainly has been a lot of fun, entertaining to
me, and a great creative outlet.

Anyway, if anyone is interested... I just posted show 13 which is a
recording of our Nashville Meet-up Group when we interviewed Eric Rice
of Audioblog.com last week.

Takce care and this continues to be a great forum

christopher

website (with show notes and blog) http://www.thebizcast.com
feed: http://thebizcast.libsyn.com/rss

[Darkradish]

In the next show, I fully intend on declaring war on the other two Video Game Music Remix podcasts,  the new Darkradish for President PSA will be unveiled (tenatively titled "Why Jack Thompson is a wuss and I stole his girlfriend"),  the winner of the secret contest will be announced, a couple requests will be played (a work in progress from Rainbow Six, and a Snowboard Kids remix), and then if there is any time left over, I may tell a racist joke in an effort to drive away listeners who haven't quite made up their mind if they wanted to unsubscribe or not.

All in all, friends, a normal week at The Remixatorium.
--
vgremix.libsyn.com

[Dave Hitt]

I'll be talking about people who are stuck in the wrong year - those who still can't operate a web browser, countries that are living in the 14th century, and cretins pushing "intelligent design" in our schools.  I'll also be presenting a very simple, effective way for dealing with the latter.

 

But I'm going to delay it for a couple of days, because I received notice from my ISP that they're going to be down all night for two nights in a row, so I don't want people to think the feed is broken. 

 

- Dave Hitt

Quick Hitts: http://www.davehitt.com/podcasts/ 

 

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[Martin Donnelly]

Saw the coverage of "Intelligent Design" on the Daily Show the other
week, I couldn't believe that they are apparently so into it in
America... I ave to admit there were a number of times it made me
cringe.

[Dave Hitt]

It is cringeworthy. While it's frightening is that people can still be this
stupid this late in the game, what's really scary is that they're being
seriously considered by school administrators, who should be laughing at
them before kicking them out of their offices.

[Martin Donnelly]

More scary than cringworthy in my opinion.

I wonder how I would react in a conversation with a moron, sorry, my
mistake, "Intelligent Designee"

I shudder to think.

I agree with you, how can the school administrators even seriously
consider teaching this in school.

Some people, I ask you...

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[DV]

It should die a quick and decisive death when it gets to the Supreme
Court, which it almost certainly will. The Creationists are a
persistent bunch.

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[Dave Cusick]

Well, this is interesting! The discussion group that has been so quiet since
that honeymoon period a while back is now in full swing again, though not
over podcasting, but the nature of the Universe itself.

I need to let it be known that I'm a person who follows Jesus (also known in
some circles as a "Christian"). I can't really help it. I've tried for 12
years to come up with reasons that God doesn't exist, or that we can't know
that he exists, but I've never been able to be comfortable with that, and
I've officially given up. For a long time the idea of believing in and
praying to a God who didn't exist was terrifying on a profound level,
because it seemed to be the worst kind of emptiness, worse than finding out
that your girlfriend, wife or lover didn't exist outside of your own mind.
But for a few reasons over the years, I've landed on the other side of that
dilemma--that not believing in God is the worst kind of existential
emptiness, akin to believing that your beloved doesn't exist despite her
deep love for you.

I don't take the Genesis creation passages as being a literal account of how
the Earth came into being. The concern of "monkeys vs. man" would have been
completely foreign to the writer. However, I believe that it is completely
true in a poetic sense. Other contemporary ancient Near Eastern creation
myths describe humans as accidents or afterthoughts of the gods, and always
at the mercy of their petty whims. The world in nothing but chaos, and
humans have no meaning or purpose. The Genesis writer takes Occam's Razor to
these, and presents Yahweh, one god rather than several, and one who
intently and lovingly creates the Universe as an artisan, and humans in his
own image as a father.

I don't know that I'd subscribe to all the ideas that Intelligent Design
promotes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design), but understand
that it's not so much a scientific movement as a philosophical one, Also,
don't get it confused with 7-day Creationism
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism) or, more importantly,
with Jesus.

-Dave Cusick

> It is cringeworthy. While it's frightening is that people can still be
this
> stupid this late in the game, what's really scary is that they're being
> seriously considered by school administrators, who should be laughing at
> them before kicking them out of their offices.

> Saw the coverage of "Intelligent Design" on the Daily Show the other
> week, I couldn't believe that they are apparently so into it in
> America... I ave to admit there were a number of times it made me
> cringe.

[Armand Cerna]

unsubscribe

[Dave Cusick]

To answer the question "what are you doing?" I recently interviewed a girl I
know who happened to go on vacation to New Orleans the night before Katrina
hit, and spent five days in the Superdome. I've been a little busy to edit
it, but it'll go up on my site as soon as it has. She has some good
anecdotes and a really good perspective on the whole thing. I'm going to put
it together This American Life-style (www.thisamericanlife.org).

Cheers!

-Dave Cusick

[Mark Kanter]

I don't show this address pod...@lifebythedrop.com in
the group. DO you have another?

--- Armand Cerna <pod...@lifebythedrop.com> wrote:

>
> unsubscribe

[Markus Koller]

unsubscribe me too.

-- 
Markus Koller
Managing Director Starfrosch
Neubrückstrasse 72
CH-3012 Bern
+41 31 305 00 33
+41 78 721 33 00
http://www.starfrosch.ch

[Dave Hitt]

>>>I need to let it be known that I'm a person who follows Jesus (also known
in
some circles as a "Christian"). I can't really help it. I've tried for 12
years to come up with reasons that God doesn't exist, or that we can't know
that he exists, but I've never been able to be comfortable with that, and
I've officially given up. For a long time the idea of believing in and
praying to a God who didn't exist was terrifying on a profound level,
because it seemed to be the worst kind of emptiness, worse than finding out
that your girlfriend, wife or lover didn't exist outside of your own mind.
But for a few reasons over the years, I've landed on the other side of that
dilemma--that not believing in God is the worst kind of existential
emptiness, akin to believing that your beloved doesn't exist despite her
deep love for you.<<<

I had just the opposite experience. I was raised in a fundamentalist
family, although I always had doubts. When they finally solidified, I felt
a great deal of freedom, a breath of fresh air. I was no longer beholden to
a long list of rules and regulations that made no sense. And with that
freedom came the responsibility to take complete credit or blame for my own
actions. I could no longer blame my mistakes, shortcomings, or doing the
wrong thing on sin or the devil.

I must admit, there are times when I feel just a tiny pang of jealousy for
those with faith - although I think they're fooling themselves, I do, on
occasion, miss the comfort of believing that God Likes Us (our religion)
Best.

>>>I don't take the Genesis creation passages as being a literal account of
how
the Earth came into being. The concern of "monkeys vs. man" would have been
completely foreign to the writer. However, I believe that it is completely
true in a poetic sense. Other contemporary ancient Near Eastern creation
myths describe humans as accidents or afterthoughts of the gods, and always
at the mercy of their petty whims. The world in nothing but chaos, and
humans have no meaning or purpose. The Genesis writer takes Occam's Razor to
these, and presents Yahweh, one god rather than several, and one who
intently and lovingly creates the Universe as an artisan, and humans in his
own image as a father.<<<

We'll have to agree to disagree on the latter - the god of the old testament
was a nasty SOB with inconsistent morals and a rotten temper. The new
testament god is a different character, at least until you get to Paul's
writings.

I'd have to agree with the other creation myths - the world is chaos, and
there is no pre-set meaning or purpose to us being here. But I don't find
that a limitation - it is immensely freeing, because it means you get to
pick your own answer to the question "why are we here?" My reason for being
here is not the same as yours, because I made different choices. It makes
the world infinitely more interesting.

>>>I don't know that I'd subscribe to all the ideas that Intelligent Design
promotes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design), but understand
that it's not so much a scientific movement as a philosophical one, Also,
don't get it confused with 7-day Creationism
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism) or, more importantly,
with Jesus.<<<

And those are the people I have a real problem with. Their beliefs don't
make any sense, and fly in the face of established facts. Which would be
fine if they'd just believe themselves, but they want everyone else to
believe their nonsense as well, to the point of pretending it has something
to do with science and getting it taught in schools.

And what I find most annoying is that we already HAD this battle, and
rationality won, back in the 80's, when teaching creationism in the schools
was slapped down. Now it's back, dressed in a cheap suit. And when it gets
slapped down too, we can expect yet another round another decade or two down
the road, under yet another name.

Regards,

Dave Hitt

[Candace Corrigan]

Dear podcasters-network ,
Sometimes I get on these lists, and then somebody starts coming down
heavy on someone the list for not staying on topic, and then you
watch the chilling effect , and the list goes downhill, and then I
get off. I don't like to see it, but it happens. I would like to
figure out what this list is about... I am too young for to be
senile... But I seem Um... I seem to be wandering in a weird
cyberspace with this list. I thought this had something to do with
podcasting, then got email , then I didn't, then I did. Now I get
this dialog about religion in the email... Its cool I guess, being a
former religion major, but I don't understand what this has to do
with pod casting. Funny . Just trying to figure it out.
It is a beautiful day here. I am out on the deck in the San Carlos
area, here in the Bay area California. Here for a wedding, working
on the edit for my newest episode of the Nashville Nobody Knows.
Its going to be a good one.
How is anybody else's day?
- Candace Corrigan
The nashville nobody knows, interview and performance of GREAT music,
usually found outside the mainstream radio machine.

[Shahram {PODKIVE}]

i think it first started out as a podcasting question but, i guess
someone misread the subject line. the question is "what are you doing
as a podcaster?" not the endless question of "what are you doing here
on earth?"

[Mark Kanter]

The list is about podcasting. Let's please keep it
that way.

I was starting to think I was the only one confused by
that thread. Thanks for pointing this out Candace.

Mark Kanter,
Podcasters-Network moderator

[Dave Cusick]

I'll agree with Candace. I said what I needed to say, but I'm not on the
list for existential debate. I would be interested in talking more off-list
about your background & experiences (I get a sick pleasure from hearing
stories from people who grew up fundy.) You can email me at
da...@postmodernrock.com.

Now to bring this back to podcasting: As far as the podcast that sparked the
debate, one approach to your subject of 'living in the wrong year' would be
to interview people on the other side of the situations you're talking
about--a person who can't operate a web browser (I could put you in contact
with my mom...), an Intelligent Design proponent (or Creationist), and maybe
an immigrant from a country still stuck in the 14th century.

-Dave Cusick

[Dave Cusick]

So, here's another question that I'm sure we all face. I'm assuming that
everyone's podcast is done as a hobby, not for a living. We all have busy
lives with different priorities, but at the same time, we're putting out
podcasts with our names on them, and so we want put time into them so they
sound good.

How much time are people putting into their shows? How long are your shows?
How often? Do they always come out on the same schedule without fail, or do
you vary it according to your ability to finish the show? What kind of prep
work and post-production are you doing?

To answer for myself, I spend 5-8 hours per week working on my show. It's
always 58 minutes long (allows time for PSA's on KPSU where it also airs)
and it airs Friday nights at 7, so I have that always as a deadline.

Most of my time spent is on prep--finding music to play. It is actually
quite hard to find 54 minutes of good new music (allows 4 minutes for
talking) each week. I spend a lot of time on www.pitchforkmedia.com,
www.cmj.com, and some mp3 blogs. Fortunately I don't have to worry about
being "podsafe" because my radio station has a license that allows us to
podcast our programming. It would take me a lot longer to find music
otherwise, I don't know how Jason at www.insomniaradio.com does it.

I don't record the actual show in real-time, I use Adobe Audition, and put
my mp3s onto the timeline, and talk inbetween parts. The actual recording
process itself can take as little as a half an hour. After it's done, I mix
it down to an mp3, upload it to libsyn, and post it on my rss there as well
as hand-code another rss feed on my site and write a little something for my
blog(www.postmodernrock.com). This takes 1 - 2 hours.

How about everyone else?

-Dave

[Martin Donnelly]

Hey you know it was my fault, I started this thread and then someone
mentioned I.D. and after watching The Daily Show which covered it
recently I kind of poked the thread off topic. My bad,

I didn't mean for the topic to go off topic.

MD

[DV]

I probably spend anywhere from 4-8 hours a week before each show
downloading and vetting music, securing music clearance, and spamming
the net. This usually occurs on Friday morning and Saturday morning.
Then I do the shows -- 4 hours on Saturday night, 1 hour on Sunday night
-- and then I process the show archives for podcasting, about 2 hours,
which happens some time after that (not usually the next day). Most of
that involves splitting Escape From Noise up into hour-long chunks,
because the process is just very slow on my computer in the application
I'm using. If I archived it as a WAV instead of an MP3 it would go much
faster. I don't mind dedicating the time because I am also a recording
artist in this genre, so it has great promotional value for me because
listeners hear my music next to those they know and love, and it has
also put me in direct contact with many independent electronic music
labels, which gives me an outlet for asking them to solicit my demos.
I'm hoping that one of the record labels that contributes to the
playlist will offer to distribute my new album. So I enjoy this as a
hobby, but I also have a professional motivation. Most of my gear is
intended for music production first, net radio second, and podcasting
third, but one naturally follows into the next.

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[Mark Kanter]

> How much time are people putting into their shows?

>etc..

Thanks for the question.

Me, I do 2 shows so far, 1 is the AdsOnPods Report,
that takes me a good 4 hours to produce. I script out
the news, plan the music from podsafe sources
throughout the weeks and store ideas in an upcoming
show ideas log book until I'm ready to do a show.

The other is http://CaseysTop10.libsyn.com My first
episode, I spent an hour or so finding music I like
from http://PodcastSPOTS.com (I'm doing this show
mainly to showcase what podcastspots software can do.)

(The podcastspots site has been revamped and much
easier to use now. It tracks my smileys so I know
what songs I've listened to, -- next time I search for
songs, it will save me a lot of time.)

Then I use the their software to insert a playlist and
record segways inbetween the songs.

What happens is. After I create my playlist on the
podcastspots site, I fire up the PodcastSPOTS
application and choose the playlist from a dropdown
list. It then downloads all the songs from the
playlist and lays them out in order, with record
buttons inbetween the song titles. I simply click
record and read the song titles/artist names that
appear just before the segway position and just after.
I do the same for each record button that appears.

The recording process on Caseys took about 10 minutes
at most. The software then puts everything together
for me in one long mp3. The processing on that takes
about 5 minutes.

Then I uploaded to libsyn and added my episode
description. I didn't have to add the songs to the
comments cause the podcastspots software automatically
added them to the iPod Plugin on Casey's.

And then people can click the songs in the ipod plugin
to hear them or buy them and make the artists money.
All in all I spent about 2 hours to produce my first
Caseys episode. I didn't do that great on my segways,
but next episode, I will make it more of a countdown
feeling and create an introduction.

[Dave Hitt]

I was going to take the blame for it, but if you want to, that's fine.

Sometimes the off topic areas conversation wander into can be fascinating,
but you're right, they are kind of counter productive to the purpose of the
list.

-----Original Message-----
From: Podcaster...@googlegroups.com
[mailto:Podcaster...@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of Martin Donnelly
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 8:48 PM
To: Podcaster...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: What are you doing?

[Dave Hitt]

My show is only about ten minutes long, and it takes me about an two hours
to do from start to finish.

That's not counting the time I spend practicing while driving.

I spend 15-20 minutes recording, with false starts, coughs, etc, and then
about 45 minutes post production - removing the false starts, lip smacks,
popping p's, loud breath intakes. Occasionally I'll have to re-record a
paragraph or a line. Then I run it through filters. (I'm using Adobe
Audition) I've spent a lot of time playing with filters, and the best
combination so far seems to be a de-esser (my Ss are too strong, and
sometimes actually whistle a little), a compander filter, then the de-esser
again.

Then I add the background music, which is pretty easy because I use the same
stuff every week for the intro and the outro, mix it down, save it to a 128
mp3, then to a 64k mp3, which I post. I upload it to my web site, then run
phpdir which creates a sloppy XML file which, none the less, gives me a good
template to paste the new item into the real XML file, which is then edited.
Run it through the RSS validator, and if it passes, then add a new entry to
the web page.

All total, about two, two and a half hours.

I've been publishing randomly, about twice a month, and am just now starting
to commit to a "schedule" of "around the first and fifteenth" of each month.
I'm debating if it would be better to make it day of the week specific - the
first and third Sunday night, for instance.

[Harold Johnson]

This question is embarrassing for me to answer, as I'm not certain the amount of time I spend working on my music podcast is really reflected in the recordings...I can only gauge listener's reactions from the positive feedback I've received.  And thank goodness for that!  Otherwise I'd probably leap off a cliff after considering the amount of time I've spent preparing each session...

Harold J. Johnson
Tempo of the Down
Podcasting downtempo to Earth
http://voyagerradio.com

[Travis Carney]

Don’t feel too bad. For only a half hour show that’s recorded straight through, it takes me the good part of a day getting the tracks together and running through the set a few times.

 

I checked out your session 04, and it’s apparent that a lot of production and effort went into it. You’re certainly coming out with a good show in the end, so if you’re having fun doing it, I think it’s definitely worth the time.

 

travis

www.djelsewhere.com

 

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[Harold Johnson]

Thanks Travis,

Harold

[Dave Hitt]

In conjunction with the question "how much time is enough," how many times do you listen to your finished show before publishing it? 

 

I was listening to the Digital Flotsam interview on Podcast 411, and PW says he listens to his own show four or five times before he puts it up.  I find that by the time I've done the final mixdown, I'm tired of the whole thing, and so usually only listen to it once all the way through.  And that's with a short show. 

 

Have you ever posted something containing a huge mistake because you didn't listen all the way through? 

 

 

[DV]

Hello,

Because of the nature of my podcasts (archived live broadcasts) it's
impossible for me to listen to it before I post it. However, I will
check the levels and the hour breaks before I turn it loose.

If I made a huge mistake, lots of people already heard it anyway when I
was doing it live. :-)

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[Mark Kanter]

I agree Dave, after working on a long-to-produce show,
I have grown weary of the show to listen all the way
through several times. But I do at least jump to
break points to insure smooth transitions. That I do
about 2 times after I think it is final.

--- Dave Hitt <hit...@davehitt.com> wrote:

> In conjunction with the question "how much time is
> enough," how many times
> do you listen to your finished show before
> publishing it?

[Philip Hodgetts]

At 10:11 AM -0500 10/2/05, DV wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Because of the nature of my podcasts (archived live broadcasts) it's
>impossible for me to listen to it before I post it. However, I will
>check the levels and the hour breaks before I turn it loose.

Ditto. Live shows can't be listened to before they're sent out.

I like to wait at least 3-4 days to listen to the show after release.
Otherwise it's still in my head as producer/talent and I can't listen
objectively as audience. I listen to improve.
--
Philip Hodgetts phi...@IntelligentAssistance.com
Managing Editor
Digital Production BuZZ

Thursdays 6-7pm Pacific
http://www.DigitalProductionBuZZ.com
Talk radio for Digital Production,
Post Production and Distribution

[Darkradish]

The darkradish doesn't make mistakes.  Only the occasional bad show.

On 10/2/05, Philip Hodgetts <phi...@digitalproductionbuzz.com > wrote:

At 10:11 AM -0500 10/2/05, DV wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Because of the nature of my podcasts (archived live broadcasts) it's
>impossible for me to listen to it before I post it.  However, I will
>check the levels and the hour breaks before I turn it loose.

Ditto. Live shows can't be listened to before they're sent out.

I like to wait at least 3-4 days to listen to the show after release.
Otherwise it's still in my head as producer/talent and I can't listen
objectively as audience.  I listen to improve.
--
Philip Hodgetts phi...@IntelligentAssistance.com
Managing Editor
Digital Production BuZZ

Thursdays 6-7pm Pacific
http://www.DigitalProductionBuZZ.com
Talk radio for Digital Production,
Post Production and Distribution

--
vgremix.libsyn.com

[Dave Cusick]

I usually listen to a show around 5 times over the next few weeks after I've
done one, more because I like to try and improve my on-air breaks, as well
as because I like the music--it's sort of a mix tape that I've made for
myself that other people happen to also listen to.

Because I record all my on-air breaks individually, and they're about 1:30
each, I edit them or re-record as I go, leaving small mistakes because I've
gotten tired of zooming in on an "um" and deleting it without leaving a
seam. It is comforting, though, to know as you're recording that you can
pause to think of what you were going to say and just take out the silence
or false starts later. Occasionally I've missed taking some of those out for
the radio broadcast version, and then fixed it before mixing down the
podcast version.

Doing my show has helped me learn to balance my perfectionism and my
laziness. ;)

-Dave Cusick

[James Carter]

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 17:04 -0700, Dave Cusick wrote:
> How much time are people putting into their shows? How long are your shows?
> How often? Do they always come out on the same schedule without fail, or do
> you vary it according to your ability to finish the show? What kind of prep
> work and post-production are you doing?

i put more time than i can probably afford into podquiz. :-)

it probably takes about eight to ten hours to produce a show. about half
to to thirds of that is researching the questions, and gathering
together music and promos for use in the show. the nature of the show
means a lot of audio editing, so that usually takes me at least three
hours per show. i then upload the show to my server at some software i
wrote automatically updates the rss feed at the appropriate time.

podquiz is a weekly podcast so i have a very much fixed schedule, with
the podcast going live sometime around midnight (GMT) on friday
mornings. in 32 shows i've only been late once! :-)

my golden rule is that the show should not be longer than twenty minutes
(i think the longest was 19:54), but they're mostly between fifteen and
eighteen minutes long.

--
James F. Carter http://www.jfc.org.uk/ http://www.podquiz.com/

[Dave Hitt]

>> I edit them or re-record as I go, leaving small mistakes because I've
gotten tired of zooming in on an "um" and deleting it without leaving a
seam. It is comforting, though, to know as you're recording that you can
pause to think of what you were going to say and just take out the silence
or false starts later.<<

This brings up another issue - how perfect does it have to be?

I used to edit out any error, no matter how small, sometimes re-recording a
section. But the re-recordings almost always have a slightly different sound
than the original, which sounds like a bigger mistake. It also made editing
take far longer, which sucked out a lot of the fun. And worst of all, I
think it made it more sterile, less "real."

When I stopped obsessing over it, leaving in the occasional
minpronoonciation, resisting the urge to go in and rephrase a sentence that
wasn't quite perfect, removing the occasional um, er, I think it improved
the show. More importantly, it made it more fun to do.

[Martin Donnelly]

Our latest show was the first one to receive any major editing. We
tried a couple of things and they didn't work out so we cut them. I am
quite glad that I managed to make them seemless, and the show seemed
to flow much better after the 3 or 4 minutes worth of cuts I gave it.

Normally, I just cut the preceding and trailing silence. If we screw
up within the first couple of minutes ( corpsing, getting something
wrong ) then we just restart but add the problem to the end as an out
take. We don't know if anyone finds them funny, but we do and that is
all that matters.

We usually listen to it once all the way through right after recording
just to find out how funny we are ( to us, we are, again to other
people, who knows? )

Martin Donnelly
The Unmajestic Podcast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/unmajestic/CbLx

[guilherme werneck]

My podcast has music on it, so I have to mix the things I say and the interviews with music. I listen to it while I'm editing it, but I do most of my shows late at night and when it's done I just upload it whithout listening to the whole show. But I do download it via iTunes and listen to it to see if it's alright.

 

Regarding the second question, I don't think it has to be perfect. I like small flaws.

 

[Candace Corrigan]

Dear Pod cast list, Candace here:
It is an interesting thing, the edit. I used to be an editor for
video ( cable mostly ). What I have been learning this time around
is... sometimes its good to let a show go the way it wants to go.
When I first started my interview show, I cut every er , um,
strangled silence, etc. that my guest had. Definitely did not work
and had to go back and start again. Better equipment ( garage band
did not cut it for me... half hour shows would start losing files,
now I use Cu Base ) and more careful attention to the room noise
where I am doing the interview has made a great difference. I
actually find I can get a better interview if I am not concerned with
what I say, so I go back and edit the questions back in. I think the
sound is improving , and yes, I leave some of the pauses in, editing
less and less.

Quite often I start with a concept, and after transcribing the
interview and editing the interview and the music in, I end up with
a completely different show than I thought I would. Which is good,
because my concept was limiting the show.
I listen a lot.
Once I get the whole show timed out, I take it to my engineer, Cosy
Collier. She teaches recording Industry at MTSU and she listens to
levels and in effect , "masters" the show. and then John ( tech
team ) gets it ready for upload.
And then John and I sit down with a glass of wine and listen
intently. It is sort of a tradition.
A Startling revelation happened this weekend though. I heard my
first I-POD.
The sound was so great! Maybe that is what is happening. If people
are listening to pod casts from I-Pods, maybe that is why when a
regular download on a computer happens, so many of the podcasts ...
sorry, I am not speaking about anybody here, but many don't sound
that good to me. Perhaps they do sound good on the I-POD?

-Candace, thinking, I am not trying to insult anybody, but the worst
thing is I might just look like an idiot,

[Scott Waters]

Great questions and discussions. I'm learning a lot here.

On Sep 30, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Dave Cusick wrote:

> How much time are people putting into their shows? How long are
> your shows?

The show takes a couple of hours to produce, and I shoot for about 45
minutes. The music is chosen off CDs or cuts that the artists have
given me permission to use, so I don't usually have to hunt them
down, though I have found some great stuff on Garageband.com that the
Hawaii artists were kind enough to let me include. My music is local
Hawaiian and I have a friend who knows the artists and who is
clearing and sharing rights from his podcast it's been much simpler
to get the music together. There's a lot of talent on this little
island. In Hawaii it's either easy or impossible to get permission,
but at least I don't have to go too far.

> How often? Do they always come out on the same schedule without
> fail, or do you vary it according to your ability to finish the show?

I want to put out one a week but have to keep my bandwidth down so
three a month is the best I can afford for now.

> What kind of prep work and post-production are you doing?

I usually have the music ready, it's only one song. Then, if
inspiration strikes on a road trip I record into the ipod then
download and mix that. Otherwise sometime between Sunday and
Wednesday I make a cup of tea, sit down at the mic and hope the
bullshit flows. Somehow it works. My subject is usually driven by
whatever support issues have come up lately. I was just asked about
laser printers so that may be the next show.

Aloha,
Scott

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Scott Waters
Artist and Technology Consultant to the Creative Class
808-876-0536
sc...@machelpmaui.com
Website: http://www.machelpmaui.com/
Blog: http://machelpmaui.com/rss.xml

[Candace Corrigan]

Candace here:
I started noticing that I wasn't getting email from this group
anymore. Did I say something wrong?
no, seriously, I don't know if I accidently got off the list, the
list went away...
anybody know?
love, candace corrigan
the nashville nobody knows
www.nashvillenobodyknows.com

[mi...@concertblast.com]

Hey Candace, I haven't received anything either in the last week or so.

Let's start a conversation if I'm on the list...

Who is going to the Podcast Expo in Nov. and what is your intentions of
going. If you are not going ... Why not?

I'm not going because of the expense... Anyone else?

Mike Arnold
CONCERT BLAST!
website: http://www.concertblast.com
RSS Feed: http://www.concertblast.com/shows.xml

[Travis Carney]

I'll be there. It will be fun to put faces to the voices from some of my
favorite shows. I live in the LA area, so it won't be too big of an expense
for me. Admittedly, I don't know if I'd have the determination to go
otherwise. The last time someone asked about it, it didn't sound like too
many people from the list were going, but hopefully, I'll see some of you
there. :)

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