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cantarina ([personal profile] cantarina) wrote in [community profile] remopodmo2012-11-28 04:47 pm

Day 28, Track 5

Welcome to Day 28's check-in post! Today is the third-to-last-day of ReMoPodMo Track 5 - let's finish strong. Go podficcers go!

Let us know how you did today.

Day 28 on LJ
jelazakazone: black squid on a variegated red background (Default)

[personal profile] jelazakazone 2012-11-28 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I spent a bunch of time yesterday trying to figure out how to edit and then I tried to edit this morning, but realized after 3 minutes of listening to myself read that I breath too loudly and I'm going to re-record. I am going to do that tomorrow. Uh, this won't be finished by the end of the month, but I've made good progress. Soon. Maybe by the end of next week.
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[personal profile] analise010 2012-11-28 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG. THIS RIGHT HERE. I'm a loud person, IRL and my breathing is everywhere. I also swallow a lot, so I feel you on the rerecording front.
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[personal profile] jelazakazone 2012-11-28 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Crap. Ok, how do you make the breathing not so loud? Do you pause to take a breath? WHAT CAN I DO? I didn't used to think I was terribly loud. Maybe I should sit a little farther back from the mic. I've got an external mic.
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[personal profile] analise010 2012-11-28 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
1 hour of edits and more to come!
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[personal profile] analise010 2012-11-28 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
You can pause, but that can sometimes interrupt of the flow of the story - in my experience. Are you using Audacity? If so, you can either silence the breath out entirely under "Generate --> Silence" or you can use the "Amplify" effect. It lets you amplify or de-amplify a sound, by putting in a positive or negative dB value.

Lulza just made a new post called "Podficcing: Beyong the Basics" Maybe something in there will help you?
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[personal profile] jelazakazone 2012-11-29 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I saw her awesome post, but I am using Garageband. I am going to try pausing.

Also, how do you slow yourself down? I think I might be reading a hair too fast.
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[personal profile] argentumlupine 2012-11-29 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Skimming through the fic I'm recording next, playing with character voices. (Why are there so many new characters? What was I thinking?) We'll call it 20 minutes of work.
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[personal profile] argentumlupine 2012-11-29 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
I hate hearing my breathing in podfics, so I always copy a clean bit of white noise from somewhere and paste over all my breathing. It takes a while, but I like how it makes my recordings sound clean, and pasting in white noise lets me tweak pacing/timing as well. I also prefer to paste white noise instead of just silencing so there's no weirdness in the background noise of the podfic.

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[personal profile] croissantkatie 2012-11-29 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I spent like an hour editing! :D
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[personal profile] croissantkatie 2012-11-29 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Good luck finding your voices!
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[personal profile] croissantkatie 2012-11-29 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
That's fantastic!
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[personal profile] sylvaine 2012-11-29 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
About an hour of recording + editing, and another hour of posting. (WHY DOES THAT ALWAYS TAKE SO LONG OMG)
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[personal profile] analise010 2012-11-29 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
0_0. Oh, dear, I'm still working on that one. Every time I try to slow down it sounds like cartoonish slo-mo (deep voice and all T____T).
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[personal profile] jelazakazone 2012-11-29 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I think that what I recorded today might be acceptable. Maybe. I have to say, this experience isn't making me excited to do more. But then again, in February I am pretty sure I said I was never doing another one and here I am with an external mic and actually editing, so who knows what the future holds:D

LOL at cartoon voice though!
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[personal profile] jelazakazone 2012-11-29 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Ok! I might go so far as to do that with some of the breaths. We'll see how frustrating it is.
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[personal profile] analise010 2012-11-29 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I know! For a lot of people, editing is a chance to relive their podfics again and it's definitely my LEAST favorite part of the process. (>_>)

I did a 6 min podcast on this, but podfic is basically how I express my head canon, so I suffer through editing to make that happen. ♥
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[personal profile] croissantkatie 2012-11-30 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know. The two short things I'm editing, the sound quality is dreadful and I kind of want to record. And the other is long. So, who knows!