Audio, such as podcasts, has a distinct advantage over video. You can listen to audio, while keeping your hands and eyes free to do other things. You can listen to a podcast while walking, cleaning, driving, exercising, or just lazing in the sun.
Podcasts are also a good place to start. One step up from blogging and writing posts. You don't have to worry about how you look. Just how you sound. If you write good copy, it won't be hard to attract listeners. You will get a chance to work on your voice, before moving onto video, if you later decide that is the way to go.
You can also, like me, chose to convert your 'copy' texts into audio files, using Balabolka. This way people can 'listen' to your copy. It may be the very first step in the transition from writing to podcasting. It is for me. I am happy with the voice and quality. It is a simple and immediate way to move straight from writing to podcasting that does not even require to buy a microphone, or learn to use any audio software.
The next step might be to do voice-overs over interesting background video footage, or even just slide-shows of photos and posters. You might then add your webcam in one corner of the screen, while showing screen capture footage. You can then start interleaving footage of you talking to your camera with this sort of thing. Until you are confident to speak for the entire time, on camera. If you make your videos off-line, you can edit out any mistakes.
In this way you can build up your confidence and skills, until you are finally ready for live streaming interviews and discussions with your subscribers and fans.
Remember that audio quality in videos is considered more important than video quality. So by starting with Podcasts, and investing in a little audio gear, you will be ready for video if and when the time comes. You won't make the common mistake of investing in camera equipment, and overlooking the importance of audio. Your videos will benefit from the experience you gained making your podcasts. So you will 'hit the ground running' and be sure to make a great impression the first time you upload a video. You can learn the ins and outs of recording and mixing while making podcasts. And you can start learning how to use basic video editing software once you've got the audio under control. Then before you even plug a camera in, you will be 'up and running' and ready to film, and edit, your video and soundtracks. You will also have built up an audience of subscribers and listeners that you can immediately sign up to your video channel on Dtube, or BitChute. Or if you are one of the few people Youtube is not censoring, you can use 'the enemy'.
If you are going to do interviews, or co-host with other podcasters, then get Skype. You can then call into other people's shows, and they can call into yours, for free. You can also invite your listeners to participate over skype, at the same time. This allows you to produce a podcast that is interactive. It lets you invite people from anywhere in the world to participate. It removes all the geographical barriers. And it costs nothing for you, your co-hosts, or your listeners.
In order to improve the audio in post production, you will want to record yourself, and those who have called in, or co-hosted, using skype. You can then edit out any background noise that was recorded on your end, when you were listening, and on their end, when they were listening.
For this you can use Avaer. It lets you automatically record any outgoing or incoming skype calls. You can use the stereo feature to record yourself on the left channel, and your caller / sub-host on the right channel.
You can then edit out anything you don't want in your podcast, and add some nice EQ touches, some compression and maybe some noise reduction. All to give your podcast that much sought after 'professional' sound, and make the very best audio impression on your listeners.
My 'Sound Foundations' Audio Engineering Guide, and 'Reaper' guide to the Reaper DAW, will show you how easy all of this is.
To get the most out of your voice, and project the sort of 'audio appearance' that seduces listeners into coming back for more, read my 'Vocal Training Guide'. It is written for anyone who wants to learn how to get a voice that will interest, attract, and even seduce, listeners. A voice that projects confidence. A voice that people can become addicted to.
Most professionals will tell you that the audio is more important than the video. People will put up with poor video, but they are much less forgiving on bad audio. So it pays to get the audio end right. Invest in learning how to record and mix audio, and in a few basic pieces of audio gear, before you worry about the video end. You can video with most smart phones, and the quality will be more than adequate. You can edit it in move-maker or i-movie. But if the sound is poor, you will make a bad impression, frustrate listeners, and lose many potential subscribers, long before they noticed any imperfections in your video.
You can do all your audio editing and 'sweetening' on Audacity. Audacity is free, but its developers are dependent upon users making a donation to support them.
If you have an Apple computer, it will have 'Garage Band' pre-installed. Use it. It is great.
For the windows users, like me, Reaper offers the best 'non-free' option for recording and mixing. Reaper gives you a completely professional level of control over your audio. It comes with professional quality compressors, E.Q, and noise reduction. Reaper is not free, but they let you use it while you are deciding whether to buy it, and a 'student' or 'small business' license is around 60 dollars. My 'Optimal Reaper' guide, configuration, and fx chains, will drastically speed up your learning curve. It is the closest thing to a 'plug and play' Reaper DAW we could come up with. I suggest you use Reaper, and stick with it. It will do everything you will ever need or want to do with your Audio.
You can find tonnes of useful FREE sound effects and background music at the YouTube Audio library of free music and sound effects.
You can easily add these using movie-maker or i-movies. If you have Reaper, you can import and edit video and sound in Reaper.
Once you have your podcast ready, convert it to an MP3 file with Audacity, or Reaper. You may need to first download the 'free' MP3 conversion plug-in that comes with my 'Optimal Reaper' configuration file. Check to see if your version of Garage Band allows bouncedown to MP3.
If I get enough subscribers to Youtube, or Patreon patrons, then I will make customised tutorials for the entire process for Patrons and subscribers. Right now I am busy working on a book that will form the capstone to my TROONATNOOR enterprise.
Now you have your MP3, you need to 'host' it somewhere where people can download it. And you need to produce an RSS feed, so people can 'search' for it, find it, and then read the description of the podcast, and decide if they want to download it.
The 'hosting' part is easy. I've checked out lots of options, and the one that is both free from the start, and offers the best longer term deals, and will be up to meeting even your most professional demands, is Spreaker.com. Spreaker lets you upgrade in steps, as your audience and needs grow. There are many steps, so you are never forced to pay for services you don't need. And you will never have to leave Spreaker, and have to take down all your files and re-upload them elsewhere, in order to get a better deal, or simply to have access to all the bells and whistles you could possibly need, at the most professional levels.
I am using Spreaker.com to 'get a taste' of podcasting. To see if it is right for me. At no cost. If the listeners appear keen for more, I can upgrade at that time. If not, all I have invested is my time and effort. I won't be out a single cent.
I can produce podcasts up to 15 minutes long. And upload up to 5 hours in total. That should be enough to see if I can generate enough interest in my podcasts to justify investing real money in them.
I can 'share' these podcasts directly with my Facebook and Twitter readers.
I simply register, then click on 'Create' and then 'Upload', to upload my podcasts as MP3 files, to Spreaker.com. I check the box for 'Download Enabled' to ensure that any future episodes in this Podcast series are included in my RSS feed.
Upload a 3000 x 3000 picture (1400 x 1400 minimum) for your avatar, and then write up a description of your podcast. Think carefully about what 'search terms' people are likely to use to find podcasts like yours, and which best describe your podcast. When potential listeners enter these search terms in the search masks of the podcast distribution webpages, the first things they will see are your photo and description.
Click on the down arrow to the right of the avatar pic you uploaded, to open a menu, and choose / click on 'My shows'... click on 'View and Edit' on the 'show' you want to submit to Apple i-tunes etc...then click on 'Edit'.....and select the category you want your podcast to appear in, using the pull down menu...then click 'Save'.
Now you have a Podcast uploaded, you need to make it 'discoverable' by as many listeners as possible. Not just by your Facebook and Twitter subscribers / Friends. You can 'post' the podcast immediately using the 'Facebook' and 'Twitter' buttons. But to reach the wider market, you need to find a 'distributor. You will need at least one 'distribution' service. For android smart phone users start with Stitcher.com, 'Radio on demand'. For apple smart phone users start with i-tunes.
One 'inside' tip is to produce three episodes of your podcast before publishing. Then publish all three at once. If people see you have 3 episodes, and download them all at once, the statistical collators treat that as if three individual people have downloaded your podcast. And so you 'appear' to be much more popular than you really are. This may boost your ratings and make your podcasts more 'discoverable'. If there are several podcasts with the same 'description' and 'tags' or 'key words', yours will appear higher in the rankings, and thus attract more listeners and subscribers.
Based on your description, key words, and host location, the podcast host website Spreaker.com will automatically produce an RSS feed for your podcast. Written in XML (Extensible Markup Language), this specially formatted text file allows subscribers to subscribe to your podcast. It includes the description and key words you wrote when you uploaded your podcast to the host. This file, along with the audio file, completes the Podcast. Using this RSS feed, the podcast distributors know where to find your audio file, and what information, key words, and photo to display on their webpages. It allows the distributors to automatically update your podcast each time you add a new episode.
Remember that any media host will offer to create your RSS feed for you. This is convenient, but it means that if you leave that host to move onto a different host, the original host will 'own' your RSS feed subscribers. You won't be able to bring them with you. Which is one reason I chose Spreaker.com. I can stay with them as far as my podcast journey takes me, right up to professional radio program hosting. Their offers at every level are competitive. There is no reason I can forsee why I would want or need to leave them, and go elsewhere. Unlike many other 'free' offers, there is no limit as to how long your content will remain hosted by them, for free. If things don't pan out, you've lost nothing, and your initial content will remain available. If things work out, you won't find you've been tricked with 'free' stuff into signing up with them, only to find that their 'additional' services are more expensive than the competition. They offer a great gradation of services with matching prices. So you can grow step by step, and increase your budget proportionally.
Note that most podcast hosts will charge around $15 per month per podcast, with unlimited 'episodes'. So you may want to specialise on one particular Podcast theme, at least for starters. Alternatively, use all the 'free' offers to experiment with different topics, to see which ones capture your audiences imagination most successfully. Then you can take the idea that worked best, and focus on it, rather than paying out for several Podcasts, most of which attract too little attention and subscribers to justify the ongoing costs of having them hosted.
If you have your own RSS feed, you can use a program like 'feedburner'? to take this RSS feed from one host to another, retaining all your subscribers. You can create your own RSS feed with 'Blubrry PowerPress Podcasting plugin', or 'Seriously Simple Podcasting'. You can install the later on your existing wordpress page. Once you have created your own RSS feed, you can copy the URL from the 'address bar' at the top of the XML file, and past it into your current host, and distributors.
The 'host' literally stores your podcast on their server. The distributor then links to these posts, and makes them 'discoverable' on their own search engines, and offers them for download.
Remember that you need to manually enter the URL from your podcast host into each podcast distributor webpage you want your podcast to be promoted by.Unless you add the URL, you will not be 'discoverable' at that particular podcast distributor. You will not appear in their search engine results.
Be sure to properly tag each episode of a podcast as you upload it, so it will be 'disoverable' on every search engine on every podcast distributor webpage you have entered you URL on.
For us Windows users, we need to go back to the Streaker page with the 'View and Edit' screen and in the TRHC of the 'View and Edit' for each podcast, you will see an 'RSS FEED' link / icon ... click on 'RSS FEED' to open a page of XML file code... copy the URL for this page, and paste it into the mask on the Apple iTunes page i.e 'URL'... then on RHS click on 'Validate' button... check all the details are correct, then when satisfied, click on the 'Submit' button TRHC next to 'Validate' button.
For Stitcher radio, go to Stitcher.com and on Mid RHS find 'Partner Signup' and sign up for Stitcher, then return to same page and click on the 'Partner Portal' link just below it, ... Click on 'ADD SHOWS' TRHS of Stitcher.com/Partner/AddFeed.php page and fill in details as before...
Both 'review' podcasts, taking about 48 hours before they will appear in their search engines. if your podcast is not considered 'counter Jew World Order', it will be 'discoverable' after this time has elapsed.
To submit podcasts to Apple go to Podcasts Connect - Apple. You will need an apple I.D to do this. If you don't have one, you can create one using the iTunes app. In the Top Left Hand Corner you will find a large blue '+' button. Click on it. An RSS Feed mask will appear asking for your podcast URL. Simply copy this URL from your Spreaker.com account, and you are ready to go.
Whenever you add new episodes of the same show (Podcast), they will be automatically added to your Stitcher and/or iTunes accounts.
To recap, the simplest way to do your first Podcast is to convert a text file into audio using Balabolka, then registering with Spreaker.com, uploading the file, a 3000x3000 image, adding a description and key words for search engine 'discoverability', then clicking on the 'Facebook' and 'Twitter' buttons, so that a link to this Podcast will be posted on your Facebook and Twitter accounts. But follow the rest of the instructions to make your Podcast 'discoverable' on the many Podcast distribution webpages out there. All for free.
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