From amk at amk.ca Tue Jan 8 21:42:39 2008 From: amk at amk.ca (A.M. Kuchling) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:42:39 -0500 Subject: [PSF-Volunteers] Wanted: Volunteers to do audio editing Message-ID: <20080108204239.GA12853@amk-desktop.matrixgroup.net> I think it's possible to parallelize the work of producing the PyCon 2007 podcasts (http://advocacy.python.org/podcasts/), and am looking for volunteers. Making a podcast consists of: 1) Checking that we have the speaker's release form. 2) listening to the entire talk 3) recording the intro and outro ("Today's podcast is 'Stackless Python', by Christian Tismer.", etc.) 4) adding the intro music, and mixing things together a bit. The time-consuming step is 2), cleaning up the talk audio. That requires listening to the whole thing, editing out 'um' and 'er' and an occasional annoying audience sound, and any passages unneeded for the podcast. Doing this slows down listening by a factor of roughly 2-5; that is, a 30-minute talk can take an hour to 2.5 hours, depending on the speaker and the recording's quality. The final two steps probably take an hour at most. The editing is largely cutting stuff out. I've been removing long pauses, audience questions that weren't recorded, the speaker spending a minute messing with slides, that sort of thing. In the first talk I got very fancy and tried to reduce audience noise by fiddling with the volume level to quiet coughs while the speaker was talking, but that was time-consuming and didn't buy very much, IMHO. If you're interested, please e-mail me. Suggested workflow: * I put a recording on advocacy.python.org as a FLAC or AIFF file. * You can do the editing and send the resulting file back to me in some lossless format (FLAC, AIFF, WAV). * I then record the intros and assemble the final podcast. If someone wanted to try recording the intros themselves, I'd be happy to help with that, but shy people needn't bother; I can keep recording them myself. --amk From writtinfool at yahoo.com Fri Jan 11 11:17:44 2008 From: writtinfool at yahoo.com (Harold Ricker) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:17:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: [PSF-Volunteers] contens of PSF-Volunteers Digest, Vol 15, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <931838.66099.qm@web61024.mail.yahoo.com> This sounds very interesting. I have done some things like this with Audacity(a sound editing tool). I would be happy to spend a few hours a week working on this. Harold Ricker psf-volunteers-request at python.org wrote: Send PSF-Volunteers mailing list submissions to psf-volunteers at python.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-volunteers or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to psf-volunteers-request at python.org You can reach the person managing the list at psf-volunteers-owner at python.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of PSF-Volunteers digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Wanted: Volunteers to do audio editing (A.M. Kuchling) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:42:39 -0500 From: "A.M. Kuchling" Subject: [PSF-Volunteers] Wanted: Volunteers to do audio editing To: psf-volunteers at python.org Message-ID: <20080108204239.GA12853 at amk-desktop.matrixgroup.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I think it's possible to parallelize the work of producing the PyCon 2007 podcasts (http://advocacy.python.org/podcasts/), and am looking for volunteers. Making a podcast consists of: 1) Checking that we have the speaker's release form. 2) listening to the entire talk 3) recording the intro and outro ("Today's podcast is 'Stackless Python', by Christian Tismer.", etc.) 4) adding the intro music, and mixing things together a bit. The time-consuming step is 2), cleaning up the talk audio. That requires listening to the whole thing, editing out 'um' and 'er' and an occasional annoying audience sound, and any passages unneeded for the podcast. Doing this slows down listening by a factor of roughly 2-5; that is, a 30-minute talk can take an hour to 2.5 hours, depending on the speaker and the recording's quality. The final two steps probably take an hour at most. The editing is largely cutting stuff out. I've been removing long pauses, audience questions that weren't recorded, the speaker spending a minute messing with slides, that sort of thing. In the first talk I got very fancy and tried to reduce audience noise by fiddling with the volume level to quiet coughs while the speaker was talking, but that was time-consuming and didn't buy very much, IMHO. If you're interested, please e-mail me. Suggested workflow: * I put a recording on advocacy.python.org as a FLAC or AIFF file. * You can do the editing and send the resulting file back to me in some lossless format (FLAC, AIFF, WAV). * I then record the intros and assemble the final podcast. If someone wanted to try recording the intros themselves, I'd be happy to help with that, but shy people needn't bother; I can keep recording them myself. --amk ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ PSF-Volunteers mailing list PSF-Volunteers at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-volunteers End of PSF-Volunteers Digest, Vol 15, Issue 1 ********************************************* Harold Ricker http://www.humboldt.edu/~hgr1 The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. 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