Input for tutorials!

[lunchee]

Hi all!

I'm thinking of making a series of podfic tutorials for garageband users, and I was wondering if there was anything anyone might like to know/learn about specifically? I've gotten some requests for music/sound effects help, but any specific questions will really help me out ♥

EDIT: if there was anything in one of my pods you wanted to learn specifically, please cite it! Here is a list of planned tutes so far.

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[zenodameaccount.livejournal.com]

Uhhh... how about how to not get lost during edits? It all gets very confusing after awhile, those purple boxes. And maybe how to keep a consistent sound while recording? There's all sorts of Vocal>Female Voice, Podcast>FemaleRadio/Narrator/Noisy ARGH that gets confusing to tell which gives the best sound for a voice. Or which ones tend to be best for recording (bg noise, blahblah) and which best after it's all finished(fuller sound, &etc)??

I get all very lost after a while. xD

Also, what is your process on multiple versions/saving? Garageband ocassionally deletes the sound, or (when coming back for editing) makes the waves look like flat-lines even if the sound is still there. How do you cope/prevent? Give us direction, O Veteran! :P

[lunchee]

These are some really great questions! Thank you, I'll try to work them all in :)

To better try and construct my tute, can I ask you how you go about editing? Are you a person who edits as they go, or someone who comes back to edit things? Do you do take after take and then come back to determine which you'd like to use? I'd really love to know your process to best determine how best to go about answering that question.

Also, I don't think I am a veteran! But at this point I've at least acquired enough experience to at least attempt a tute :D

[zenodameaccount.livejournal.com]

Argh, sorry for the late reply!

My editing style is all over the place — or better to say — it has gone all over the place. I started out editing as I went until the inconsistencies when returning to recording bugged me. Then I recorded everything and returned later for edits...which was a bit overwhelming for a 45 min podfic, ~1.5h of noise total? So then I recorded in chunks, each important act or mood or whatever covered or consistent (~about 6-22 minutes each if edited). That's where I'm at at the moment.

It... theoretically should be easier to handle, but I keep rerecording! And then wavering on which version I like best. And then recording another, because obviously that version should be better, shouldn't it? Shouldn't it?? Goddammit.*

I think the biggest problem is my own inexperience , so uh... I don't know! I'm pretty open for instruction and change. It's pretty telling that I have almost 5 or so WIPs, (two of which are 99% finished other than edits) and only one completed and posted podfic. A 12 minute podfic at that. Hahahaha.

I'm kinda desperate for a good, clear guide to editing. I so dearly love podfics and podficcing, but it's the edits that kill me! Do you print out the story and make notes? Or in the case of longfics, open up a text document and things?

Wow, stopping now! Clearly I'm all over the place tonight. I mean to be succinct and instead have spilt my podficcing woes all over your new clothes! Um, here's a wet towel. And another fruit drink! .__.

tl;dr I avoid the editing process! And I dearly love that you're taking the time to do this tute. Whatever appears in the final version, I'm very much looking forward to it! ♥


*Oh, the obsessive need to make everything perfect! Sometimes recording different 'versions' is done for character's sake (i.e. [happily] "Yay!" Stop, record: [sarcastically] "Yay!"), sometimes for general pronunciation, eliminating a chair squeak, etc. It gets a bit crowded after a while.