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July 31, 2006

podcasting

SIGGRAPH ‘06: In which the author gets his podcast on

Posted Jul. 31, ’06, 1:03 PM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Music » Podcasting

Video Podcasting ClassA close friend of mine is working at SIGGRAPH, helping give a workshop about video podcasting. Intrigued, I decided to attend. I know Cyrus is our resident podcastologist, but I’ve dabbled in audio and video before (what we called, in my day, the A/V).

The workshop fortunately was a Mac stronghold. There were about ten MacBook Pros, and a similar number of 60GB 5G iPods available. Rather than just recording our video with the built-in iSights (where’s the fun in that?) we assembled a slideshow of teapots in Keynote to which we added audio accompaniment via iMovie. For those of you wondering about teapots, they are sort of the ur-object for computer graphics (see Utah teapot). I like the idea of using pictures for video podcasts rather than just your standard talking heads. I’d upload mine but I don’t want to show off.

One odd quirk that my friend mentioned to me: though you might think GarageBand is the ideal programming for constructing a video podcast, it’s apparently unable to export video in an iPod-compatible format. The video will play in iTunes, though. Can anyone back this up?


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