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Understanding Soundslides/1-2 Planningv/3-5 Shots and Photos/5-6 Getting Sound/7-9 Cominging Audio and Visual/10-11 Using Soundslides/12-13
Technical Programs Importing Sound/15-16 Exporting Sound/16 Using Garage Band/17v Setting Up Soundslide/19 Using Soundslides/20 Exporting Soundslide/21
Special Tips and Tricks Before Starting Your Soundslide/14 Editing Sound/18
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Harbinger Online
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General in the Beginning CJET Magazine
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Expert Advice in the Beginning CJET Magazine
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Plan in the Beginning CJET Magazine
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Plan in the Beginning Tom Priddy’s Soundslide Guide
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Plan in the Beginning Becky Tate’s Soundslide PowerPoint
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Visualize in the Beginning Becky Tate’s Soundslide PowerPoint
Tom Priddy’s Soundslide Guide
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Hear in the Beginning CJET Magazine
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Hear in the Beginning CJET Magazine
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Hear in the Beginning Tom Priddy’s Soundslide Guide
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All Together in the Beginning CJET Magazine
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All Together in the Beginning Tom Priddy’s Soundslide Guide
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Into Soundslides in the Beginning Tom Priddy’s Soundslide Guide
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Into Soundslides in the Beginning CJET Magazine
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Other Tips
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Don’t let your subject introduce themselves -Open with natural/environmental noise -Never leave the audio empty -Pace the show accurately -Don’t use music unless your subject is actively apart of it (Example: playing guitar, not listening to a Led Zepp recording) -Usse natural sound as bridges, but don’t have subject continually talking -Never turn the recorder off -Keep your recorder in your backpocket if you don’t have a helper while you’re shooting. -You can have a reporter with you, but make sure you have good communication, and our focused on getting the same story and the same subjects
The Top 10 Interview Questions 10. When can I re-interview you/watch you do what you do? 9. What's next? 8. Who helps you do this? (It's chill if they say no one. In fact, that might work for your story. Follow this up with, May I talk to them? How should I contact them? There's your second/third interview) 7. What else do you do? 6. What inspires you? 5. Take me back to your favorite moment (in this story). 4. Can you walk me through what you do exactly? 3. Why do you do this? (Or Why do you enjoy/not enjoy doing this?) 2. How did that happen? 1. Do you have anything else you would like to add?
Importing into Garage Band
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Open the application “Garage Band” from the Applications tab in Finder. Make a new song, choose “Voice,” and save it in your folder as a name you’ll recognize. Don’t worry about the tempo, key, or signature - just keep the defaults and hit save.
Delete the template’s first two tracks (Apple+Backspace) and then make a new basic track. Before you do anything else, turn off the metronome too, or else you’ll get an annoying tap when you’re previewing your recording. It will also be easier for you to edit and measure your audio if you change the Not symbol in the center to a clock by clicking the arrows . Look in the black cabinet, in the top right shelf. There should be a gray cable with two ends that could connect to an iPod or any standard headphone jack. Take it.
If your pulling your audio from an analog recorder, continue, you’re doing great! If you already have a raw audio file, skip to page 3.
Connect one end to the headphone jack on your recorder. Connect the other end to the back of the desktop computer (or left side of the laptop) that you are using. Put it in the port that is below this symbol.
Open System Preferences by clicking the Apple in the top left corner in your screen. Select “Sound” and go to the Input tab. Select “Line In Built-In Input.” Make sure this is the straight-up one, no “2” or fancy things after it.
In the bottom right corner of GarageBand, select “Stereo 1/2 (Built-in Input)” as your input source, and set your recording level to around 60%.
Importing into Garage Band
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Press the record button in GarageBand, then press play on your recorder. It’ll look pink while it’s recording. Stop recording once you’ve played through the entire sound capture. It should look purple.
If you’ve already got your digital file from say a digital recorder, locate it in Finder and drage and drop it into GarageBand.
On the next page will be a large, confusing diagram of GarageBand. Do not be alarmed. It simply explains all the tools you need to know to get started on Editing. What to edit and what exactly to include in your final audio will come later in the packet.
Exporting From Garage Band Once your audio is arranged and edited in the exact way you want it, save the project. Then under the “Share” menu, choose “Export Song to Disk...”. Choose “mp3 Encoder” from the drop down menu, then save it in a place that you’ll be able to find quickly and easily.
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Garage Band Overview
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Loop feature that is opened by pressign the loop sign next to your time meter. You can adjust the loop by dragging or resizing the yellow bar underneath the time gauges. Good for clarifying a quote.
Rename your tracks by clicking on the track, then clicking exactly on the name as soon as you add them to dodge confusion Headphones isolate a track for individual review
Adjusts volume of the track
Red bar shows where playing will begin, or where you will split a track
Volume control allows easy manipulation of volume or for fading sounds in and out of the audio file. Click on the line to create an anchor point, then creat another anchor point and adjust the second point to raise or lower a segment’s volume.
Track area shows the track you are listening to by lightening its color. To add more tracks, drag and drop files from finder into the black area.
Zoom in and out of your current view of the song
Hot Keys
Play button begins playing audio file for review
Your current time placement, shows exactly where the red bar is positioned
-Delete track
APPLE+Backspace
-New track
SHIFT+APPLE+N
-Split track
APPLE+T
-Start and stop play
Spacebar
-Reconnect split tracks
APPLE+J
-Delete split track segment
Backspace
Adjusts volume of entire audio file
Info pane, hide it by pressing the circled “i.” You only need this if your pulling your raw audio from an analog recorder, in which case use the settings circled above (Input volume-35%)
Garage Band and Editing Advice Don't leave any blanks in your audio. It sounds sloppy. If you need a transition between interviews, use environment noise and raise the volume (gradually) going into it, and lower (gradually) going out of it. To do this, click the drop down arrow at the end of your track and mark points on the volume line, then adjust appropriately. Make separate tracks for all of your audio inputs. So have a separate track for each interview, your environment noise, etc. You can do this by splitting your original audio track (APPLE+T) at the appropriate places, making a new track (SHIFT+APPLE+N), and then dragging the segment over to the new track. Label every new track you make to help you stay organized. Use Hotkeys (shortcuts)! A sidebar box of essential Hotkeys are listed on the previous page breaking down GarageBand.
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Use environment noise well. It could be a whistle, neighborhood kids, or shoddy rock music, but it adds another element to your story. It makes it come alive and it makes it more connectable to your audience. A good soundslide has two interviews. A great soundslide has three. A best soundslide has more than three.
Splitting Sound Position your red cursor appropriately over the sound you want to isolate. Press APPLE+T at the beginning and at the end.
Select your isolated sound portion. It will be a brighter color than the rest of your audio track.
Click and drag that highlighted portion over your other audio to insert it inbetween other audio portions, or drag it to another track.
Never make your subjects introduce themselves. That's hokey.
Tools and Tips to Remember Don’t forget to label and create new tracks for each source or sound.
Loop it if you can’t understand what’s being said or done.
Adjust your master volume to fade in and out to synchronize with your photos or with other audio
Setting Up Your Soundslides
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Open up Soundslides from Newspaper 09-10>Photographers>Online>Soundsli des Our registration code can be found by searching “Soundslides” on the Gmail and looking for the conversation for support in case it asks for it. Create a new project, make sure that you save it in your own folder with a BAMF name that you won’t forget or lose track of.
Template defaults, don’t change anything manually, just Load Settings from the Photographers 09-10>Online>Soundslides Folder Drop photos that you want to use onto your droplet in your soundslides folder. This will make the whole RGB/Jpeg formatting a lot easier than doing it individually. Upload a folder full of pictures after you’re done dropping images from the folder called “Soundslides Me” in your Soundslides folder, saved under your name. After Soundslides pulls in the photos, make sure that you move the photos in “Upload Me” to a different folder, because the “Upload Me” folder must be blank EVERY TIME YOU DO A NEW SOUNDSLIDE
Next, upload the mp3 you made in GarageBand by clicking on the SND button. Once this is done, Soundslides should go nuts and you should see a window displaying a preview of your Soundslide shortly thereafter.
You don’t have to tailor each image or add captions to every image or Soundslide, but do so if the photo needs extra explaination by clicking on the “Slide Info” tab.
Soundslides Overview Soundslides makes it easy to add images to your presentation after the initial upload, and to remove pictures with the Bin in the bottom right corner. If you add or take away images and want to reset duration values, click “Tools” from the top menu bar and choose “Spread images equally”
The orange bar dictates what the preview image will be, similar to Garage Band’s red bar.
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If you want to add a caption, move the orange bar over the desired picture, then type your business under the slide info pane
Adjusts the appearance of the final soundslide, but just load the settings from jData
Change your headline and description here
Change out your original audio file with a better one here
You can adjust the duration of specific images by clicking and dragging the edges. Give better shots more time, but pace appropriately. No image should be on screen for more than 10 seconds.
Always save. Nuff said. Test and export are explained on the next page.
Exporting Your Final Soundslide
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Before you call it a day, click the “test” button in the bottom right corner. A window will pop-up in your internet browser, and there you can preview the soundslide to make sure it’s rid of kinks. Before you export the soundslide, make sure that you have installd the video plug-in.You can open it up from Photographers 09-10>Online>Soundslides. Our registration code can be found within the same Gmail conversation with Soundslidessupport. in case it asks for it.
Press Export. This doesn’t really do anything except creat a publish-toweb-folder, the online team’s failsafe if your video doesn’t upload
Under the “Plug-in” menu, select Video Exporter... to creat a video of the project.
Choose Quicktime Movie - Full size (h284). Once the movie is created, save the clip (it saves under your project folder: Soundslides doesn’t save with an extension like project.psd, it just saves as a folder) under the Soundslides Finals folder and go on to the last two steps.
After the movie is complete, upload it to SchoolTube. Login in the top right corner, our username is smeharbinger, our password is journalism. Select upload, fill out the requested fields seriously. The title should be something interesting, like a strong quote or a very briefy description of your subject; essentially, a standard Harbinger headline. Put Soundslide by YOUR NAME at the end of the description and select “Select File & Begin Upload” when you’re done.
Notify Tim, Stolle, Taylor, Logan, or Pat that you’ve uploaded a new Soundslide, and tell them the title of it.