Blind Abilities Presents, A new series entitled Creating A Podcast. Pete Lane introduces, the first part in a multi-part series on the process of creating a podcast, from the initial Skype recording, editing and applying effects, working with split tracks, creating an Intro, Outro and inserting transitions.  This is a detailed and tightly edited podcast intended for both beginners and others who might want to pick up a tip or two.

This initial part includes the first two Chapters of the podcast:

* Chapter 1 covers an overview of Audio Hijack, the Mac app on which the Skype recording was made. The recording features a conversation between Erica turner and myself, the completed podcast for which was posted at: www.BlindAbilities.com on May 27, 2016. 
* Chapter 2 includes the initial editing of unwanted portions of the call using Amadeus Pro. 

* Below is a list of Amadeus Pro Keyboard Commands used in this series:

Navigation Commands
- Move to next/Previous Marker - Option + Right/Left Arrow
- Extend Selection to Next/Previous Marker - Command + Right/Left Arrow 
- Move to beginning/end of audio file - Option + Home/End
- Go To Location (determine and/or go to exact time location of audio file) - Command + G
- Move to Right Channel in single stereo track - Press Down Arrow key twice
- Move to Left channel in single stereo track - Press Up Arrow key twice
- Move between single tracks in a multi-track file - Press N, or VO + Up/Down Arrow

 

Action Commands
- Place Insertion Point - Command + P
- Play/Pause selected audio - Press spacebar
- Play from beginning of audio file - Press Tab key
- Advance/Reverse Play Back - Press Right/Left Arrow during play back
- Sample resulting audio after deletion is made - Press E
- Set Marker - Press P, or Command + Shift + M
- Delete Selected Audio - Press Backspace button at top right of keyboard
- Delete all tracks together in multi-track file - Option + Back space
- Listen to focused track in multi-track file - Shift + spacebar

- Save File - Press S
- Save As new file - Command + Shift + S
- Repeat last action - Command + T
- Undo Previous Action - Command Z

- Redo Undone Action - Command + Shift + Z
- Bounce Multi-track file to a new, single-track file - Command + Shift + F
- Fade-in - Command + Shift + Comma

- Fade-out - Command + Shift + Period

Stay tuned for Part 2 of this series next week.

Please provide feedback on this initial episode by writing to [email protected]
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