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Welcome To Episode One of Your Story. To listen to the podcast go to Your Story.In this episode I chat with a young lady I’ve worked with who decided at school to get into the film industry and has achieved it in only three years and now has to consider her future.I also bring you up to speed on how it’s been going for me to get this podcast up and running and some of the frustrations that I’ve faced.Hope you enjoy.To automatically receive this podcast freely to you, click on one of the links to the left or search in iTunes for “Your Story.”Subscribe freely in iTunes by Clicking here.If you use another Podcast software Get the feed here.
USB interfaces including Zoom H4 as well as many firewire interfaces are having issues with Leopard.
This was a problem I thought wouldn’t have arisen as a couple of months back I couldn’t use my Behringer firewire interface with OS10.4.10. Eventually I had to go back to OS10.4.9. So I was glad to upgrade to OS 10.5 Leopard thinking that all the problems would be gone which for the Behringer unit is so. However my Zoom H4 is having issues.
Yesterday I sent this email to a podcast Inside Home Recording
…when I plug in my H4 it shows that it is powered and connected to the Mac but it doesn’t come up on the desktop. Therefore I can’t get any data off. I’ve sent an email to Zoom Japan and they are aware of the issue. So as far as the Apple forums are concerned I’m snookered for the moment. Unless some one can come up with a solution I’ll be forced to download to another machine and burn disks to transfer the files. I may even have to use a PC
Until this is resolved…
On Sunday I sent an email to Zoom Corporation and today to my surprise Read the rest of this entry »
I heard about the Greenhouse Effect in the early 80’s and I’ve been waiting to see when the general public would start to get the picture, and now we have. Now we have a debate but it’s only a public debate the scientists all agree (all but the few) but the public isn’t listening to the scientists, the tens of thousand of educated men and women who study and know all the background information that has led to their opinions.
The general public listens to the popular and noisy commentators who aren’t as educated or have vested interests elsewhere.
However… Maybe the scientists may be wrong… Sure, nothing is for certain. Look at the panic caused about the Y2K problem. Fizzier wasn’t it? What a waste of money. Although, have you ever wondered that maybe all the work done because of the concern that was created may have averted the problem so it never happened and now we have the benefits of no problem, just a few dollars spent.
Well what if the same situation plays out with global climate change?
Here is the best way I’ve come across to explain it.
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Ok, maybe I’m just thick. But I get a libsyn account thinking that is where I’ll host my domain. But it seems that is where my podcast is going to be based. Then I set up a feed burner account and to burn my feeds through and in setting up the SmartCast feature they want me to post the image location. How should I know. My images are in my folders thats all I know.
I still don’t have any idea how to get the links over here to this blog let alone how to make it all so you only have to get here by punching yourstorypodcast.com, which will only get you to the podcast over at libsyn on the boring page and bypass feedburner anyway and you would never even get here.
This technology is a long way from being user friendly.
My analogy of this age is being like the early days of the cars is still correct. You have to be a qualified mechanic to really know how to drive this stuff.
Oh to be a Geek!!!
In the last four days i’ve managed to spend a lot more time on the mac working out how to do this podcast thing. I now have three conversations recorded and I’ve done a rough edit on my conversation with Shannon who I was fortunate enough to work with earlier in the year. So far I’ve just chopped all the crud out of the chat so it’s more sensible to listen to mainly regarding her quick career path into the film industry. Hopefully you will see that in a short while.
What I’ve realised today is that I’m starting from an incredibly low knowledge base. Everyone that I’m listening to in podcasting seem to be involved in at least one and often many of the skills required to pull this off. Sure I know that if I wanted to I could have just used my iMacs’ built in mic, done a rough and ready recording and posted it to .Mac but I would have to at least know a bit about garageband. However I want this to be good so I’ve had to get this blog, get a decent field recorder, learn interviewing skills, microphone & interface, understand Garageband to get a good mix then post it and organise all the necessary links so people can find me. Wow! And for me typing is a skill I’m quickly getting better at let alone all the geeky stuff.
Don’t get me wrong I’m thriving on the challenge and I’m excited to pull this off it’s just a very steep learning curve and I’d like to be moving a bit faster.
As a mentoring exercise I’m using Mysterious Universe as an example of the quality I’d hope to achieve in time but even so I found out today that Ben is a sound engineer, so that explains why he sounds so good.
Hang in there Ian I say, I’m getting there one lesson at a time
