Day 25, Track 6 (Thursday, GMT -4)

[analise010]

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American PodMoer's and Happy Thursday to all of our international participants!

What are your plans for today? Will all of the holiday festivities get in the way of recording? Or will you sneak away from family and friend to get a few words in? For all of our non-US podficcers, comment below and tell us how your Thursday is coming along. :)

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Comments

[jesperanda]

25 minutes of recording, 35 minutes working on cover art ... and 1 hour of additional waiting for the turkey breast to cook properly.

(Rule #1 of turkey at Chez Jesperanda: The cooking time is never what the package says.)

[analise010]

Chez Jesperanda sounds like a good place to be. (Chez Analise is already laid out on the couch.) How did the turkey turn out?

It sounds like the podfic is coming along well. Are you almost done?

[jesperanda]

Turkey took twice the time but tasted fantastic. Laying out on the couch soon followed. :-)

I think it's down to listening/editing, and making sure I have something useful.

[curiously_me]

Chez Sly cheated this year and purchased rotisserie chickens, lol... BUT we did have loads and loads of sides that we made at home to make up for it. :D

That's a good long while to spend on a podfic. Do you have more to record or is it just edits from here on out?

[jesperanda]

Sides are good. Sides are fun!

Hopefully, just edits. *crosses fingers*

[neurotic_squirrel]

Happy Thanksgiving to USians! :-)

I spent some hours editing, wasn't really tracking. Spent a significant proportion of that time being indecisive about a. music (probably not) and b. noise removal (probably yes, now that I've got the hang of it). Also learned to use (probably badly) the Normalise function in Audacity.

[curiously_me]

Happy Thanksgiving from a USian, lol. :D

So, what you're saying is that you got lost in the timey wimey-ness of podfic and have only just stumbled out? Yay!

I remember how excited I was when I figured out noise removal in Audacity! Good for you! \o/ Now, I find myself getting impatient while waiting for it to do its thing, lol. You are way ahead of me with the normalize function... it's still very wibbly wobbly for me. :P

[neurotic_squirrel]

I actually didn't stumble out until about 3 hours after I posted this. I now have what I think is the finished file, though I need to listen to it.

Audacity kept crashing on me last night but did manage to recover every time. And don't worry, the normalise functions is very wibbly-wobbly for me too. ;-)

[analise010]

MUSIC IS ALWAYS A GOOD CHOICE! #TeamMusic

Congratlations on learning about Audacity! \o/ I spent a VERY long time learning what everything does, so I'm happy that you're learning faster than I did. I have no idea how the Normalize function works, but you've inspired me to figure it out. :)

[neurotic_squirrel]

Haha, I wouldn't say I have an *idea*, just that mashing that button sometimes producded the desired effect. I'm far from actually being good at it.

My approach to learning Audacity is learn the bits I need to solve a problem I encounter. That way the knowledge tends to stick.

[majoline]

Still coughing :(

My mom surprised us with Thanksgiving dinner, so I actually ended up having turkey et al. *warm fuzzies*

*tries to screw my courage on*

[curiously_me]

Coughing is the absolute worst. Randomly, I've heard that eating a handful of marshmallows helps with coughing. I was out of marshies during my last cold, so I don't know if it'll work or not, but it can't hurt, right?

That is, of course, if you can eat anything after having Thanksgiving dinner. I don't think I could eat even one more olive, lol. :D

*hugs* You are doing wonderful things each and every day, m'Dear. *hands you a screw driver* If you ever need to talk or anything, I'm here for you and if not, I'm here for that too. :)

[majoline]

Thank you for the offer. :) I'm not sure I can eat anything right now, but I have heard that marshmallows help. I should get some!

[analise010]

Aww, Margi, *sends cuddles and tea*. At least all the family came over? Did you have a good time at Casa de Margi?

[majoline]

Thank you darling! Yes, we were all together and had a good time, which was a wonderful surprise. *u*

[luzula]

I got my collaborator's fic for the lightning round of pod-together, and recorded it! \o/

[analise010]

\O/!!!!!! Isn't it great when authors and podficcers come together to make something spectacular? :D?

[knight_tracer]

3 hrs of listening through this podfic (4 to go). I did a bunch of this while walking places and making notes on my hand. I only found two mistakes in 3 hrs, so that's pretty good.

[analise010]

3 HOURS OF SELF-BETA??? O____O. Is this for #ITPE or just a big project you've been doing on your own?

[knight_tracer]

I can't release anything without checking it over with a listen through first. With a 70K+ podfic (not ITPE) it's much easier for mistakes to slip through /o\