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The Dadcast Goes into Pre Beta

DadCasting Rig

We recently started toying with the idea of putting together a DadCast, a 2FatDads podcast, so I dusted off the old mic stand and put away my reels of spliced tape and decided to put WireTap Pro to the test of recording a Skype conference call between three or more of the Fat Dads. Unfortunately I made a few mistakes in the set up.

  1. The first being that I recorded all Mac audio  in WireTap and not just the Skype call.
  2. The second problem was that I should never have routed the Mac audio out of the Mac into one of the board channels and then feed the whole board back into the  Mac’s line in.


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PC to Mac Switching Pains (Part 2)

So now that my iTunes and iPhoto setup is done (sort of), I moved my attention to trying to create the first of hopefully many family movies that will inevitably embarrass the kids (hopefully they’ll still pick a suitable retirement home for their mom & dad!).

The importing of existing videos from the external hard drive that was salvaged from the HP and placed in an external enclosure was seamless. The videos were added to events and their date/time stamps were visible to iMovie. This helped in annotating and adding bottom thirds to my movie. The clips can also be filtered by criteria, thus showing the clips that made sense to use as source matter. So far, I’m liking iMovie over Premiere Elements.

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