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How to Create an Audio SlideShow Using Soundslides<br />Mark Berkey-Gerard, Journalism Department, Rowan University<br />

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Audio Slide Show<br />Three stages:<br />1. Gathering and editing audio <br />2. Gathering and editing images<br />3. Producing audio slide show by synching sounds to images<br />

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Think Story First<br />What do you want to <br />communicate?<br />One idea.<br />Keep it simple.<br />

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Audio<br />Good audio is the basis of multimedia.<br />

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Audio<br />Voices<br />Music<br />Emotion<br />People telling their own stories in their own words<br />Allows audience to imagine visuals<br />

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Audio<br />WHAT YOU NEED TO GATHER AUDIO:<br /><ul><li>Digital recorder (that saves as .wav, .wma or .mp3 format)

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Headphones

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Microphone

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Cables

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Backup batteries</li></li></ul><li>Editing Audio<br />Audio Editing Programs for Beginners<br />Garage Band (for Macs) <br />Audacity (for PCs and Macs) – Free download<br />

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Editing Audio<br />Common Types of Audio Files You Should Be Able to Recognize<br />.wma (windows media audio)<br />.wav (uncompressed windows file)<br />.mp3 (most universal audio format – the Soundslides format)<br />.aiff (Mac and standard podcasting format)<br />

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Editing Audio<br />1. Plug your recorder into the USB.<br />2. Drag your audio file(s) onto your desktop.<br />3. Make a copy. Ctrl and Click. Duplicate.<br />4. Edit the copy, NOT the original.<br />

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Editing Audio<br />Switch Audio Converter<br />A free download.<br />Works on both<br />Macs and PCs.<br />Installed in Boz 134.<br />

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Editing Audio<br />Switch Audio Converter<br />Go>Applications>Switch<br />Drag file in.<br />3. Set Output to .aiff for Garageband or .wav for Audacity.<br />4. Hit “Convert” button<br />

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Editing Audio<br /><ul><li>Audio length = slide show length.

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General rule is one photo for every five seconds of audio (ie 90 sec = 18 photos)

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Export as .mp3 – High Quality</li></li></ul><li>Photos<br /><ul><li>Take a lot of photos

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You need one image for every five seconds of edited audio. (i.e. 90 sec = 18 images)

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Wide, medium, close-ups.

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People. Action. Telling details.</li></li></ul><li>Preparing Photos<br /><ul><li>Select only the photos you want to use

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Crop

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Rotate

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Color Correction

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Make sure they are saved as full sized .jpg “High Quality”

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Put them in a folder</li></li></ul><li>Soundslides<br /><ul><li>Made by journalists for journalists

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Application for creating slide shows and audio slide shows for the Web

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The standard at many online news publications</li></li></ul><li>Soundslides Plus<br /><ul><li> Easy to Use

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Works on both MACs and PCs

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Cost $69.95. But you download free version. It will display “Demo” at beginning,

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Can only be purchased fromwebsite.</li></li></ul><li>Soundslides<br />Soundslides will:<br /><ul><li>resize all of your images for you

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allow you to order them any way you wish

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take care of file name and linking

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retrieve any embedded caption information</li></li></ul><li>Soundslides<br />Soundslides will NOT:<br /><ul><li>rotate your images

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allow color correction

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crop or allow you to crop

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allow editing of audio files</li></li></ul><li>Soundslides<br />1. Open Sound Slides program (Go>Applications>Sound Slides Plus)<br />2. Upload Photos (JPG button and select entire folder).<br />3. Upload Audio (SND button).<br />

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Soundslides<br />Edit your slide show.<br />Adjust the timing for each image, drag the ends in the timeline at the bottom.<br />Click the play button to preview the audio track and adjust the timing of the images. <br />Save every time you make a change.<br />

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Soundslides<br />Save.<br />Export. It will create a folder called publish_to_web.<br />Save that entire folder as well as your original files.<br />

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Soundslides<br />Publish_To_Web folder contains all of the information for your slide show:<br /><ul><li> images of different sizes

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audio file

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HTML code

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Flash code (.swf)</li></li></ul><li>Soundslides<br />Important: The entire contents of the Publish_To_Web folder must be put on yourwebsite in order for the slide show to work properly. <br />

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Soundslides<br />Putting Your Slide Show Online<br />Best option for you is to convert to video<br />Export and Zip.<br />Upload to Soundslides Video Converter<br />Post to YouTube, blog, or burn to a disk.<br />

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Soundslides<br />Other helpful tutorials at<br />http://markberkeygerard.com/tutorials/<br />

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Soundslides<br />Also see the “Support” page of the <br />Soundslides website at<br />http://support.soundslides.com/<br />