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- Hey this is Ian Cleary from RazorSocial
on our marketing channel, welcome back.
Today I wanna talk about podcast software,
not hardware, only software.
I wanna talk about the different types of software used
if you're creating a podcast.
I mean podcasts are great
because most of them are not visual,
so you can dress up how you want, whichever way you want.
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Or you can have video podcasts if you
wanna be visual on it as well.
But there's a lot of hardware and software involved.
As you see in our studio we have all the mics
and stuff like that which we can use
for the podcasting side.
But I wanna step through different software you can use
for a podcast.
So number one, I suppose managing a podcast.
You wanna start off by going, well how can you manage,
first of all, scheduling guests?
So you could use tools like oneSchedule,
or Calendly.
So both of them tools allow you to easily schedule guests,
and they integrate with the likes of Gmail Calendar,
so that there's no conflicts in your calendar.
So you just schedule it back and forth,
it can be automatically checking your diary,
and you can confirm times with the person
you're interviewing, if you are interviewing somebody.
Another thing to use is something like Trello or Asana.
They are task management tools and they have these boards.
And on the boards you can create categories,
so you can say here's the board,
here's my first category, and the first category is
guests I'm going to interview.
The next category on the board after that could be,
you know ones that are automatically scheduled,
and then when the podcasts are recorded,
that's another category,
and then it's moved off to editing,
that's a separate category,
then it's production, then it's distribution.
So you can create all these categories within Trello,
or Asana, and use that to manage your podcasting,
or your interviews.
Because after a while, you're gonna have lots of
different interviews, you wanna schedule them well,
you wanna set them up well, you wanna manage them well.
So they're good tools for doing that.
For recording, there's a variety of tools for recording.
For example, a simple tool is ecamm recorder
that you can use within Skype.
So typically if we're doing recording at interviews
we'll use Skype, and ecamm recorder.
Simple utility, all you do is switch it on,
and actually we have it switched on automatically
for everything on Skype.
So be careful if you ever talk to us on Skype,
we have a recording, we know where you live.
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Only messing.
Yeah, but we do record everything,
it's just easier to switch it on.
And in ecamm there are some settings there
where you can change around, where you can say
hey I wanna record video, or I wanna record audio.
So ecamm is good.
Pamela is the equivalent on Windows,
so ecamm is a Mac, I don't think it's a Windows version,
I think it's only Mac, and Pamela would be the equivalent
on Windows for recording.
Now another very useful tool is Zencastr.
If you haven't looked at Zencastr, do look at it.
And you get some free time with Zencastr,
so you don't necessarily have to pay.
What Zencastr does is,
you record everything through Zencastr,
and it'll actually strip out all the noise automatically.
So you'll get high-quality sound recording
just using Zencastr.
Okay, so number three is editing.
So once you record it all, you wanna do some editing.
I uses QuickTime for basic editing,
where I can cut bits of sound out at the start,
cut bits at the end, cut bits in the middle.
It doesn't do editing of reducing noise, or anything,
but if you just wanna cut stuff out,
on a Mac that's a very simple utility to use.
Auphonic, A-U-P-H-O-N-I-C, is a very useful tool
for stripping all the noise out and making it
high-quality sound.
And again, they provide a free and a paid version.
You can have like a few hours free every month,
so it's definitely worth doing it.
If you're a professional or if you wanna get into
more advanced editing, there are other tools like,
for example, Adobe Audition.
You could use something like that
for really advanced editing,
which is time-consuming to edit,
so you need to have a good editor in place.
Now, once you do all the editing and have it all
nicely packaged up and it's ready,
what you wanna do, maybe, is do a transcription.
You might want to create a blog post about it,
or maybe it's a video interview and you wanna have captions
on it as well.
We use Rev.com.
So Rev.com is a great service,
they'll charge about a dollar a minute
to do transcription services.
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Very fast at transcription, really fast at transcription.
Once your transcription is done,
then you're ready to, you might want to sync it off
to places like iTunes and stuff.
So there's a site call Libsyn,
and Libsyn is about $5 a month,
and you can host all your podcasts on there,
and that will synchronize to various providers
such as iTunes.
So definitely have a look at something like Libsyn.
And last but not least,
then you'll wanna promote the podcast.
And when you promote it, you could use something like
Agorapulse to promote across all your different
social media channels,
get the message out about your podcast.
So there's lots of different pieces of software
available for your podcast,
so they're definitely worth checking out,
and I think some of the ones we shared here
were pretty good, even if I say so myself.
Hopefully you'll come back for the next show,
I don't know what we're gonna do yet,
but it's gonna be good whatever it is.
Hopefully you'll come back for the next show,
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Thank you very much, talk to you soon,
take care, bye.