Jeff Bearer – Craft Beer Radio Alex Landefeld - Trashstock Podcasting 201

Podcasting 201 Session Outline I. Feeding and Care of your RSS Feed. 1. Control your feed URL. 2. Help in managing the feed. II. Improving Your Sound 1. Good uses of money 2. Signal levels and compression 3. Environmental considerations III. Creating Your MP3 1. Optimize your compression settings 2. Using file names that are manageable IV. Web hosting considerations V. Streamline posting with a CMS VI. Useful information from server logs.

The RSS Feed Your Most Valuable Property (MVP) Lifeline to your Audience Change is disastrous Think Ahead, Plan Smartly Own Your Feed Don't get stuck with a stupid url

Your Most Valuable Property (MVP)

Lifeline to your Audience

Change is disastrous

Think Ahead, Plan Smartly

Own Your Feed

Don't get stuck with a stupid url

Managing RSS Data Hand editing == XML Hell Tedious and error prone W3C validation - http://validator.w3.org/ Feed Management Software 3 rd Party Services Self Hosted Services Desktop Software Integrated with CMS

Hand editing == XML Hell

Tedious and error prone

W3C validation - http://validator.w3.org/

Feed Management Software

3 rd Party Services

Self Hosted Services

Desktop Software

Integrated with CMS

Feed Management Software 3 rd Party Software Podcast Blaster - http://www.podcastblaster.com/podcast-feed/ Self Hosted Podcast Generator - http://podcastgen.sourceforge.net/ Desktop Software Feed for All - http://www.feedforall.com CMS Drupal - http://www.drupal.org Wordpress - http://wordpress.org

3 rd Party Software

Podcast Blaster - http://www.podcastblaster.com/podcast-feed/

Self Hosted

Podcast Generator - http://podcastgen.sourceforge.net/

Desktop Software

Feed for All - http://www.feedforall.com

CMS

Drupal - http://www.drupal.org

Wordpress - http://wordpress.org

Improving your Sound Microphones / Mixers Good and Bad uses of money How to set a level Noise and Reverb Control How loud is your computer? Carpeting sucks up sound. Hang blankets, carpet, or foam on the walls

Microphones / Mixers

Good and Bad uses of money

How to set a level

Noise and Reverb Control

How loud is your computer?

Carpeting sucks up sound.

Hang blankets, carpet, or foam on the walls

Setting your levels Avoid Clipping Peaks should be between -1 to -6 dB Soundbeds should be at least 12dB lower than voice 0dB 0dB

Avoid Clipping

Peaks should be between -1 to -6 dB

Soundbeds should be at least 12dB lower than voice

Better Sound Through Technology Dynamic Compression Software Compressors Hardware Compressor/Limiter Post Production Normalization MP3 Compression Levelization

Dynamic Compression

Software Compressors

Hardware Compressor/Limiter

Post Production

Normalization

MP3 Compression

Levelization

Dynamics Compression Makes Loud sounds softer and softer sounds louder Can help to keep you from clipping. Fuller sounding audio and more consistent volume levels.

Makes Loud sounds softer and softer sounds louder

Can help to keep you from clipping.

Fuller sounding audio and more consistent volume levels.

Hardware Compressors Processes the signal before it's recorded Excellent Clipping Protection Gate can help eliminate background noises Can allow you to record a cleaner signal to disk

Processes the signal before it's recorded

Excellent Clipping Protection

Gate can help eliminate background noises

Can allow you to record a cleaner signal to disk

Creating your MP3 MP3 Compression Settings – Size vs Quality Mono or Stereo Bitrate Sample Rate What is in a good filename? Not everything is an iPod Help yourself. ID3 Tagging ID3 tags are made for songs, not podcasts ID3 Editing Software

MP3 Compression Settings – Size vs Quality

Mono or Stereo

Bitrate

Sample Rate

What is in a good filename?

Not everything is an iPod

Help yourself.

ID3 Tagging

ID3 tags are made for songs, not podcasts

ID3 Editing Software

ID3 Tagging and File Naming

Hosting your Podcast Own your Domain What to look for in a Hosting Provider Upload Bandwidth Storage Space Speed Caps Reliability

Own your Domain

What to look for in a Hosting Provider

Upload Bandwidth

Storage Space

Speed Caps

Reliability

Posting your Podcast Podcast Friendly CMS Automatically manages the RSS Feed Flash player on the website Capable of audio and video Craft Beer Radio Drupal Example

Podcast Friendly CMS

Automatically manages the RSS Feed

Flash player on the website

Capable of audio and video

Craft Beer Radio Drupal Example

Collecting Statistics Smart website layout helps make logs more understandable. Log Analysis Software AWStats Google Analytics What stats matter? Files Bandwidth

Smart website layout helps make logs more understandable.

Log Analysis Software

AWStats

Google Analytics

What stats matter?

Files

Bandwidth

Links Jeff Bearer http://www.craftbeerradio.com [email_address] Twitter: jeffbearer Alex Landefeld http://trashstock.wordpress.com [email_address] l.com Twitter: alex_landefeld Contact Information http://delicious.com/jeffbearer/podcast201

http://delicious.com/jeffbearer/podcast201