It's almost unbelievable
I am so happy! It has taken me way too long, but I finally have all the podcasts up to date with what I have.
WHEW!
Pastor Dean's Sunday morning audio blog where he speaks with all the workers in the morning is available and updated with everything I had available. I certainly missed some while I was broken, but I'm back on it!
The Sunday morning Worship Experience is available and up to date with Yesterday's message that I had the pleasure of giving.
Spike Speaks hasn't had a new entry in a bit, but I think he'll be in the podcasting studio soon to lay down another track and Real Time is in the same boat. We had two more Real Time podcasts in the can, but I have not done a good job of keeping track of them and they may be unavailable...I did find some audio and I'll see if I can put it together into something coherent.
In case anybody is interested, I'll lay down a list here of what it takes to put Pastor Dean's blog or the Worship Experience podcast online. I'm sure others have different ways, and I would love to hear from anybody who has an easier solution. This is just the way I've been doing it and I've refined my choice of software over the last couple of years.
The first step is making sure I get a copy of both the blog and the worship experience. You may think this is the easy part, but a lot of the time the people making copies of the worship experience forget me! After I get the CDs I take them home for further processing.
I then use a program called FreeRIP to rip the CD into mp3 format. Now I could use OGG Vorbis or WAV formats, but I am more concerned with getting the audio into the hands of everybody I can and since iPods are ubiquitous I rip the audio to mp3 format.
The next step is some post production. I use Audacity for that. Normally not much needs to be done. I remove some of the lag in Pastor Dean's blog from when he says it's prayer time and when everybody gets down to the stage area to pray and I remove any extra thumps or squeaks, but mostly I use it for the addition of the intro music and the voice that introduces the worship experience podcast and I use the compressor tool to try and even the audio out. This takes a while for the processing to occur, then I export the finished product as mp3. I use the podcasting studio to get the introduction recorded and that requires the computers turned off so the fan sounds aren't there. Once the Audacity bit is done, it probably took about 30-40 minutes of processing time to get it all complete...and me clicking time of course!
After that I have the completed product. Now I use SmartFTP to get it placed on our web site. This also takes a bit of time. I don't have the fastest connection at home, so I get it going and then go do something else for a while.
Once the audio file is up on the web site, I already have Blogger and Feedburner wired to iTunes so a single post in Blogger activates the others to make a new entry in iTunes and notify all waiting that new episodes are available.
That's the process. And that's why it took so long to get updated. It's not really the amount of brainpower that is used each week. Most of the work was the wiring and that's done. The biggest issue is the hurry up and wait. Figuring out where to cut, then compressing and waiting for that to complete. Then getting back to the computer and exporting the mp3 file and waiting for that to complete. Then getting back for the FTP to occur and waiting for that before the Blogger entry is done and the rest can go.
Anyway, after being behind for months and months and months, I am finally completely caught up! Hopefully I can make this one last for at least a little while!
WHEW!
Pastor Dean's Sunday morning audio blog where he speaks with all the workers in the morning is available and updated with everything I had available. I certainly missed some while I was broken, but I'm back on it!
The Sunday morning Worship Experience is available and up to date with Yesterday's message that I had the pleasure of giving.
Spike Speaks hasn't had a new entry in a bit, but I think he'll be in the podcasting studio soon to lay down another track and Real Time is in the same boat. We had two more Real Time podcasts in the can, but I have not done a good job of keeping track of them and they may be unavailable...I did find some audio and I'll see if I can put it together into something coherent.
In case anybody is interested, I'll lay down a list here of what it takes to put Pastor Dean's blog or the Worship Experience podcast online. I'm sure others have different ways, and I would love to hear from anybody who has an easier solution. This is just the way I've been doing it and I've refined my choice of software over the last couple of years.
The first step is making sure I get a copy of both the blog and the worship experience. You may think this is the easy part, but a lot of the time the people making copies of the worship experience forget me! After I get the CDs I take them home for further processing.
I then use a program called FreeRIP to rip the CD into mp3 format. Now I could use OGG Vorbis or WAV formats, but I am more concerned with getting the audio into the hands of everybody I can and since iPods are ubiquitous I rip the audio to mp3 format.
The next step is some post production. I use Audacity for that. Normally not much needs to be done. I remove some of the lag in Pastor Dean's blog from when he says it's prayer time and when everybody gets down to the stage area to pray and I remove any extra thumps or squeaks, but mostly I use it for the addition of the intro music and the voice that introduces the worship experience podcast and I use the compressor tool to try and even the audio out. This takes a while for the processing to occur, then I export the finished product as mp3. I use the podcasting studio to get the introduction recorded and that requires the computers turned off so the fan sounds aren't there. Once the Audacity bit is done, it probably took about 30-40 minutes of processing time to get it all complete...and me clicking time of course!
After that I have the completed product. Now I use SmartFTP to get it placed on our web site. This also takes a bit of time. I don't have the fastest connection at home, so I get it going and then go do something else for a while.
Once the audio file is up on the web site, I already have Blogger and Feedburner wired to iTunes so a single post in Blogger activates the others to make a new entry in iTunes and notify all waiting that new episodes are available.
That's the process. And that's why it took so long to get updated. It's not really the amount of brainpower that is used each week. Most of the work was the wiring and that's done. The biggest issue is the hurry up and wait. Figuring out where to cut, then compressing and waiting for that to complete. Then getting back to the computer and exporting the mp3 file and waiting for that to complete. Then getting back for the FTP to occur and waiting for that before the Blogger entry is done and the rest can go.
Anyway, after being behind for months and months and months, I am finally completely caught up! Hopefully I can make this one last for at least a little while!
posted by Pastor Tom at 11:27 AM
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