erightsoft SUPER Audio and Video Converter

Posted At : 4:56 PM | Posted By : admin
Related Categories: Podcasting, Video and Audio

We bought a hard drive camcorder to use for events that we would like to vodcast. It is easy to use and we can save the video files right from the camcorder to the computer without having to capture the video.

However, I discovered that the audio compression used on the camcorder is Dolby Digital. The audio quality is wonderful. Dolby Digital also is proprietary and I have found that many video editing software programs do not recognize the format. It will not work in the QuickTime Player. So far I have only been able to play it in Windows Media Player.

None of the video editing software (iVideo, Adobe Premier or Final Cut Pro) on our Mac can open the audio portion of the file. On the Window’s side, Audacity does not recognize it and neither does Adobe Audition. I do not currently have video editing software on my laptop so I am not sure about the Windows version of Adobe Premier.

Thankfully, a person on the Audacity forum mentioned a free converter tool called SUPER© from erightsoft.com (http://www.erightsoft.com/home.html). I downloaded and installed it. I am very happy to say it works great and it will convert a batch of files.

Did I mention it is free?

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March 17, 2006

Podcasting

Posted At : 7:30 PM | Posted By : admin
Related Categories: eLearning Concepts and Techniques - Spring 2006, Podcasting, Podcasts

Summary: Podcasting

Julie Meyer, one of our MSIT graduates, joined me to talk about podcasting today. We met in Centra and recorded the session. Afterwards, I recorded a separate session on how to use Audacity to put together a podcast. The links to the executable versions of the sessions as well as the PowerPoint file used are included here for your convenience.

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Executable Files of Recorded Centra Sessions
PowerPoint File Used in Podcast Session
Additional Links

Executable Files of Recorded Centra Sessions

Two different sessions were recorded. The executable versions of the sessions are available here:

The section on how to find the number of bytes for the "length" attribute of the "enclosure" element for RSS 2.0 did not show up in the "How to Use Audacity" recorded session. I've included the MP3 properties graphic for one of our podcasts here: