8.
AUDIO
Ahhh,
Michael has spotted the flaw in the ointment in my technique below. In
fact,
a colleague of mine used to use this technique to record streaming media,
radio
broadcasts I think (for one-off use in ESL classes).
If you want to speak into the computer
in question, you could either do so through
a second computer patched into the conference (with a second Yahoo
logon),
or get a bifurcating adaptor (it has two female inputs on one side and
a
male output on the other, used in fact to channel two stereo wires into the
one
input jack on your computer.)
I've never tried the techniques in the
last paragraph, just imagining a solution.
Vance
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Dear
Vance 'n All,
Is Real Producer the same as Real One
player which I think I got with ME? I have got
something clled Nero burn. Can I do the sound file production as easily with
either of those or is Real producer
4.3
mb the tool for the job? I'ld never
work it out otherwise. I've loaded Doodle thing onto my
website;
It took a couple of minutes.
http://www.garethhowell.net/englearn.html
Thanking you,
Cheerio, Gar
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Hello
Gar,
Real Producer and Real One Player are
two different tools. If you need to download
files from the internet (ie listen to an audio file or watch video
clips),
real one player usually does the job, it works like Windows media
player.
Real producer on the other hand, works like an editing machine and is
recommended
to be used when uploading avi files (video) to your hard disk. Real
producer
allows you to convert your original avi files to real media files,
which
will then allow you to view your video on the internet. The only hitch in
doing
this kind of conversion is that you wont be able to get the same quality
as
your avi file. The higher the resolution the higher the speed connection and
top-notch
real producer would do the trick. You don't usually get the goodies
on
freebies. However, my free G2 Real player (the older version) did just fine.
To
better understand what i'm talking about click on this link: http://www.oocities.org/aidenyeh/nkfust/nkfust_video/nkfust_video.html
The quality isn't that good, but if
you're going to look at CNN or BBC's video
clips,
I honestly think, that what i've got isn't really that bad.
Hope this helps,
aiden yeh
p.s.
the links on that page may be a little
screwed up, and I've really got to work on
them- so, please ignore the glitches.
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Real
One Player is a tool for playing media off the Internet, and Real
Producer
is a tool for recording sound and video and compressing it for use on
the
Internet. Because it's a compression tool it can also convert big files
to
little ones. The player is free but I think the recorder is not (is it?).
Another
good recorder is Windows Media Encoder.
There's more on mounting media on your
web pages here
http://www.oocities.org/vance_stevens//papers/evonline2002/week6.htm#realmedia
and more information on using Real
Producer here
http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/tutorials/realproducer.htm
Vance
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Hi
everyone,
So...
"Real
Producer" could be the equivalent to "Audacity", or the Nero
editor?
Marķa
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I'm
not familiar with these products. Anyone?
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about.php?lang=en
Audacity is a free audio editor. You
can record sounds, play sounds, import and export
WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using
Cut,
Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply
effects
to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a
customizable
spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio
analysis
applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise
Removal,
and it also supports VST plug-in effects.
Nero Wave Editor
http://www.nero.com/en/index.html#root
Free Demoversion: http://www.nero.com/en/content/download.html#download
Lots of complaints about it here:
http://www.vidomi.com/viewtopic.php?topic=3815&forum=5
Actually,
just a further comment, Audacity looks to be a sound editing and
enhancement
tool; whereas the Real Producer will create streaming media,
designed
to play on the fly in the Real or some other compatible streaming
media
player. Real Producer for example gives you a checkbox during file
creation
asking if you want to allow users to download the file to their
computer
(and if not, it will only stream and can't be captured unless
unscrupulous
users resort to the nefarious loop cable technique mentioned in
earlier
emails). The Microsoft competitor to RP is Windows Media Encoder. WME
is free (not sure if RP is) and it will record streaming media files
(designed
for play through Windows Media Player), though I don't recall that it
has
many (if any?) options for saving file formats.
Vance
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