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Record Skype interviews

Friday, September 14th, 2007

The combination of Skype and a call recorder lets you record telephone (skype) interviews directly on to your harddrive. For Mac we suggest the 15 USD recorder from Ecamm http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/. Calls are recorded manually or automatically (great option for those who forget to press the record button)  and in different quality ...

Online journalism tutorials from Berkeley University

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Berkeley University has this great multimedia training website: http://journalism.berkeley.edu/multimedia/ The training site covers video, audio, photos (equipment, tips and tricks, software tutorials etc.) as well as storyboarding, Flash, HTML, and web design.

Audacity download and set-up

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. It is easy to use and fits very well in the online journalism software package. Download from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (link opens in new window) Audacity exports in both AIFF and WAV ...

Mp3 player plugin for WordPress

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

If you want WP to display a mp3 player and also make embedding or linking to mp3 audio easy, you should install this plugin in WP (FTP onto the plugins folder): Audio Player from http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/ allows us to integrate mp3 files on the posts and pages. The download page contains a ...

Audacity manual; Audacity and Lame mp3 encoder

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

If you are using Audacity for sound editing, this link will take you to the Audacity manual: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html (opens in a new window) Audacity exports in AIFF and WAV formats. If you install the Lame mp3 Encoder on your computer, Audacity lets you export mp3 files too which is ...