Introduction to audio and video processing

Topic	Assignment
Presentation: audio recording	Audio recording
Presentation: audio editing	Audio editing
Presentation: analog and digital data
Presentation: audio data
Presentation: audio compression
Presentation: voice applications
Audio applications
An editing example
Audio processing	Alter Nixon speech
Quick and dirty audio cleanup	Edit and level recordings Record a PowerPoint narration
Analog-digital conversion
Audio compression
Blind compression test
Audio quality
Doug Kaye: audio production how-to
Doug Kaye: recording telephone interviews using Skype
Advantages of podcasting
Windows Movie Maker tutorial
Video files
Video compression
Video file comparisons
Video is demanding
Making a narrated slide presentation with a table of contents
Changing presentation tempo
How to make a Camtasia screen cast
Resources
VLC multimedia player and transcoder
Capture streaming audio
Free sound effects and music	Recording with sound effects Create a sound effect
Levelator -- simple, but effective level balancer
Odeo -- audio recording Web service
Noteflight music composition service
Audacity audio recorder and editor
Audacity audio recorder and editor, portable version
Audacity "how to" videos
LAME, an mp3 encoder for Audacity
Presentation: Installing LAME in Audacity
FFMpeg, a WMA encoder for Audacity 1.36
Audacity keyboard shortcuts
Audacity: how-to presentation
Audacity Wiki
Audacity threaded discussion forum
Audacity tutorial (on Mac, but good for Windows too)
Audacity del.icio.us
Flash video editing
Jing -- free screen capture program
Review of online screencast capture services
100 YouTube tools and resources

For more detail on these topics, see: HowStuffWorks, Webopedia, Wikipedia, and The Digital Sound History Project. Jay Rose knows and shares a lot about audio recording and processing. The Podcast Academy is an excellent source of audio information and you can get a lot of help at their forums.

Note that the Audacity community uses a wiki to share tips and documentation.

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