I've run into one big problem while putting together my current audio story: deciding exactly what sound material and elements to use. This problem basically stems from the fact that I have too much audio. I have more than 15 minutes of interview recordings and about six minutes of ambiance and natural sounds - not even counting my narrative audio. By having that large amount of audio, I created a couple of setbacks. Even though I noted the highlights of the interview immediately after it took place, I still spent a lot of time sifting through the audio for the "golden nuggets" of information. And once I found that information it was still more than I needed, thus the refining of the selection process and deciding where to put various sound recordings became a little more difficult than expected.
As for editing the recordings taken from my Olympus DS-30 digital voice recorder into a single audio story, I haven't faced too many challenges. I've found editing audio in Audacity to be a fairly straightforward task. Similarly, converting audio projects via LAME into mp3 format is doable as well. I think the most difficult part about working with these types of computer applications is learning all the nuances.
As for editing the recordings taken from my Olympus DS-30 digital voice recorder into a single audio story, I haven't faced too many challenges. I've found editing audio in Audacity to be a fairly straightforward task. Similarly, converting audio projects via LAME into mp3 format is doable as well. I think the most difficult part about working with these types of computer applications is learning all the nuances.
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oh i hear you on this steve...I too also made a large recording & spent 3 hours just pulling out what I wanted from it. since i had done this interview for another class it's over 60 minutes, and this whole process is already tedious enough..so having more audio than neccessary makes it that much more difficult!
-Sarah
I'll remember to get little clips when I'm interviewing Bruce Pingree, owner of a Portsmouth jazz club called The Press Room. He's a fairly to-the-point person so it shouldn't be that bad. Remember to use your digital folders when possible. -Abbie
Yeah, the program is pretty straight forward but learning it's little tricks is probably the trickiest part.
I'm also having the same issues with the interview, far too long, Did a lot better with short clips while interviewing for the Holocaust speech.
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