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About this episode

This video discusses an open source audio editing program called Audacity. In this clip I take you through the following: installing and setting up the software, basic editing, recording and processing tips, export tasks and MP3 export configuratioplaces to go for more informationThe clip is best viewed full screen, by clicking on the monitor icon in the lower right hand corner of the video player. See the bottom of the page for a link to download either an FLV version of the recording, or the original AVI file (roughly 375 MB). With that said a few corrections are necessary: @1:14 I say you download the software by right-clicking and then selecting save-as. This is not correct. You have to click the link to follow it to another page, where the download begins automatically. Right-clicking will only save a tiny HTML file and not the installation file youre actually after. @6:10 I say that clipping occurs when the wave form goes beyond 1.0. I dont believe this is technically correct. The main thing to bear in mind is that pushing the volume too high (via the amplify effect) will result in audio distortion, which is something to be avoided as much as possible. If youre interested in reading more on audio clipping you might refer to the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipping_(audio). The support documentation on the Audacity site is really impressive as well, so be sure to check out their documentation and wiki .

• Release Date

  Jan 7, 2009

• Runtime

  10:27