On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 21:53 -0500, David Miller wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 21:27 -0500, David Miller wrote: > > > >> I see several packages that will record but I don't want to have a > >> 700M file. Is there a package that will break the recording into, > >> lets say, 10min files and then be able to burn those to CD as audio > >> tracks with zero time between tracks. > >> > > > > I've used software that can automatically break a large audio file up > > into several smaller ones. Though I suspect that's not going to work > > well with speech, as it may think momentary pauses in speech are good > > break points, whereas a human might break at more sensible moments > > (change in topics, activities, etc.). > > > > I've used Audacity for live recordings of sound, hitting stop and then > > record between things. That's one way of doing what you want. > > > > But if you want to pay attention to what you're recording, and not get > > distracted by recording it, then recording it as one slab then editing > > afterwards is the better approach. Again, Audacity is quite good for > > that task. > > > > > >> At some point later I would like to get a camera and start doing video > >> recording of the service and place of DVD. > >> > > > > I'd suggest getting a HDD+DVD recorder, record to hard drive, break the > > recording into chapters after filming, then burn off a DVD. It's then > > an easy job to replicate that DVD, either burning off another copy from > > the hard drive on the same unit, or copying the DVD on computer. > > > > I've got a Sony RDR-HXD590 HDD+DVD recorder which makes that sort of > > thing relatively painless. We've used it for recording concerts, and > > chaptering the different acts. And it seems to be one of the few that > > creates fairly error-free discs. I don't just mean discs that play > > well, I mean ones that aren't full of masses DVD technical errors that > > make duplication, or even playing, discs difficult on other decks. > > > > I find stand-alone recording equipment to be generally a lot less > > annoying that computerised video equipment. Professional video > > production is my career, and this is the easiest way to go, for low/no > > budget productions, in my experience. If you go the whole hog, you can > > easily spend hours and hours in post production, for no tangible > > improvement for the type of job you outline. > > > > > >> In both cases the church is also talking about putting streaming audio > >> or streaming video on their web site. > >> > > > > Might be worth looking at some of the youtube tutorials. The same > > things will apply for preparing video for your own website as theirs. > > > > > Well I have used Audacity for 3-10 min recordings in the past but not > for hour long recordings. I have never had a problem with my FC7 machine > here at home. The FC10 machine that I threw together for this has the > same MSI mother board that I have in my FC7 machine. We are only going > to do audio at the moment and, I hope in the near future we will start > doing some sort of video. I put this machine together and loaded FC10 > Sat. and verified that sound worked, didn't have time to do much > testing. Took the machine to the church this morning and did the > recording. I was disappointed with the results this first week. There > was a high pitched hiss throughout the recording. I don't know what to > make of it yet. I am taking the sound directly from our 32 channel > audio mixer. Not the right sound for a ground loop. We have about a 6 > foot unbalanced cable that goes from the board then splits into the tape > deck and the computer. Less than a foot from the split to each. The tape > doesn't have it but it may not be able to reproduce it very well. Using > the built in sound of the mother board. ---- If it's a hum at a fixed frequency, audacity should be able to filter it out but I would gather that it would be useful to monitor with headphones all the way through the computer to see where it's coming from. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
