1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:24,520 Hey everybody, welcome to podcast answers. The show where I help you start and grow your 2 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:32,280 podcast answering any podcast questions along the way. Guys, I've had technical difficulties 3 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:40,000 today. I was, it's been a while since I've been in my studio. This last week I was actually 4 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:46,620 out of the county fair. And so when I was not in the studio, I was not doing this like 5 00:00:46,620 --> 00:00:56,900 I normally do. And so for me, this was, it was, it was quite a bit of resetting and getting 6 00:00:56,900 --> 00:01:04,980 back in here and trying to realize what I did. It's been a while since I've been here in 7 00:01:04,980 --> 00:01:11,420 the studio, right? So for me, I wanted to make sure that I had everything going and I didn't 8 00:01:11,420 --> 00:01:15,300 have it going right this morning, lots of, lots of things. And you know what, guys? I've 9 00:01:15,300 --> 00:01:23,980 been doing podcasting since 2007 and there are still times that I start and I mess up 10 00:01:23,980 --> 00:01:24,980 the show. 11 00:01:24,980 --> 00:01:31,060 So today guys, what we are talking about is we are going to be talking about pitfalls 12 00:01:31,060 --> 00:01:35,140 and issues of recording in the field because that's what I did last time. 13 00:01:35,140 --> 00:01:38,340 I recorded in the field and I had some trouble. 14 00:01:38,340 --> 00:01:44,180 So what I mean by recording in the field is I was out at my county fair and I didn't have 15 00:01:44,180 --> 00:01:51,680 any of my podcast studio with me. I just had my iPhone and I recorded video and audio on 16 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:59,180 my iPhone. So here are some of the negative things that I had that I that I faced while 17 00:01:59,180 --> 00:02:05,460 trying to do this episode. And there was noise around me. So some of the time when I was trying 18 00:02:05,460 --> 00:02:14,100 to do the show, it ended up being kind of noisy in there. There was fans going on and 19 00:02:14,100 --> 00:02:18,680 again, and lots of people talking and I get that like, this isn't going to be an episode 20 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:24,420 where you're producing this all the time. And so you're going to have some times and 21 00:02:24,420 --> 00:02:27,780 people are going to put up with the fact that there may be some louder noises. And it's 22 00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:31,980 kind of cool if you're in the field to get that field noise around you because then it 23 00:02:31,980 --> 00:02:36,740 It actually helps people understand that you're not in your normal studio. 24 00:02:36,740 --> 00:02:39,400 You are not normally where you go. 25 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:43,460 You're not normally where you're at, but you are in another location. 26 00:02:43,460 --> 00:02:47,120 And so sometimes that helps, but for me, it was a little bit distracting. 27 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,660 The other thing too is I couldn't do it live. 28 00:02:49,660 --> 00:02:52,260 I couldn't do a live video and a live audio. 29 00:02:52,260 --> 00:02:59,340 So the way that I do this podcast, guys, is I stream it live to YouTube as I record it, 30 00:02:59,340 --> 00:03:04,340 as well as I also stream live audio from the podcast apps. 31 00:03:04,340 --> 00:03:08,180 So one of the new podcasting 2.0 features 32 00:03:08,180 --> 00:03:11,340 allows you to actually have podcast apps 33 00:03:11,340 --> 00:03:13,040 that will allow you to listen live. 34 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,140 So I am live streaming right now to podcast apps 35 00:03:16,140 --> 00:03:19,780 like Podverse FM and there's a few other ones 36 00:03:19,780 --> 00:03:23,180 that allow you to listen live while we're going. 37 00:03:23,180 --> 00:03:24,820 So if you've not done that, check that out 38 00:03:24,820 --> 00:03:27,620 because it's kind of cool listening to your podcast 39 00:03:27,620 --> 00:03:35,220 create their podcast live before and you get the kind of raw unedited version, which is 40 00:03:35,220 --> 00:03:40,340 cool, but I couldn't do it in the field because I didn't have the ability on my phone to do 41 00:03:40,340 --> 00:03:44,460 the live stream. Yeah, sure. I could have done a live, maybe Facebook live or something 42 00:03:44,460 --> 00:03:48,620 like that. But that just wasn't what I was going for this time. And I decided to just 43 00:03:48,620 --> 00:03:56,940 focus on the audio and just focus on producing good, good quality audio as best I could as 44 00:03:56,940 --> 00:04:01,940 as well as getting the video involved too. 45 00:04:01,940 --> 00:04:06,460 So another issue that I had is I couldn't create 46 00:04:06,460 --> 00:04:08,540 a transcript, so I created a transcript 47 00:04:08,540 --> 00:04:12,820 for all of my episodes and I use an application 48 00:04:12,820 --> 00:04:15,240 called Mac Whisper for that that allows me 49 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,980 to take my audio file when I'm done 50 00:04:17,980 --> 00:04:20,380 and run it through transcription. 51 00:04:20,380 --> 00:04:23,820 I'm sure that there may be apps for that for the phone. 52 00:04:23,820 --> 00:04:25,580 I didn't have one handy on me, 53 00:04:25,580 --> 00:04:32,100 So I didn't actually create a transcript for it, which again, not a huge deal, but it's 54 00:04:32,100 --> 00:04:37,460 something I do because it's nice to be able to look at that as you're listening. 55 00:04:37,460 --> 00:04:42,980 For those of you people who are hard of hearing, it also helps them be able to enjoy the podcast 56 00:04:42,980 --> 00:04:43,980 as well. 57 00:04:43,980 --> 00:04:47,620 And when I was in the field, I couldn't do that transcript. 58 00:04:47,620 --> 00:04:49,780 I couldn't have it. 59 00:04:49,780 --> 00:04:52,980 I just couldn't do the transcript. 60 00:04:52,980 --> 00:04:57,980 So I didn't have a transcript to go off of for this episode. 61 00:04:57,980 --> 00:04:59,900 There was no chapters. 62 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:01,300 I decided not to chapter. 63 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:05,220 I could have chaptered in my program, the program I was using to edit. 64 00:05:05,220 --> 00:05:12,860 I was using a fair right to edit and to put the image and things like that in my MP3. 65 00:05:12,860 --> 00:05:17,940 I could have chaptered out the MP3 with that application. 66 00:05:17,940 --> 00:05:24,340 However, I didn't do that and I kind of just decided that it was easier to skip 67 00:05:24,340 --> 00:05:27,940 because my episode last week was really short anyways. It wasn't something that 68 00:05:27,940 --> 00:05:37,300 was really long and so I decided to just go ahead and do no no chapters on that. 69 00:05:37,300 --> 00:05:42,260 For me it was also hard because I was doing video. If I had just recorded audio 70 00:05:42,260 --> 00:05:45,820 I could have got a little bit better audio quality because I could have brought 71 00:05:45,820 --> 00:05:51,340 it close to my, could have brought the computer, the computer, the phone close to my mouth, 72 00:05:51,340 --> 00:05:56,220 closer to my mouth and got a little bit better audio. But I was, I was recording video as 73 00:05:56,220 --> 00:06:02,740 well because I like to put out video for this, these episodes. And so for me, I was, I had 74 00:06:02,740 --> 00:06:07,260 to have the phone kind of away from me. And then I was, I was, I did a couple different 75 00:06:07,260 --> 00:06:14,300 ways of capturing the video for that too. I, hey, I was using an app and we'll go through 76 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:19,900 the whole process later. But I was using an app from Rode that allows me to get dual video 77 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:22,940 so I can get the front camera and the back camera at the very same time. And I thought 78 00:06:22,940 --> 00:06:26,360 that was kind of cool because it got me as I was walking. You could see what was happening 79 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:30,380 in front of me as well as behind me. And then if you were also in the field, you could take 80 00:06:30,380 --> 00:06:36,720 that video and get content from other people. So if you're doing an interview, you could 81 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,300 actually hold your phone out and get front and back camera. So I did that as well as 82 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:46,380 I also used this the regular camera on my phone. I had some challenges with the video 83 00:06:46,380 --> 00:06:52,140 that was taken from the road app and it was out of sync a little bit with the audio. I 84 00:06:52,140 --> 00:06:57,580 don't know if that was my fault or the app's fault, but it was out of sync. You'll notice 85 00:06:57,580 --> 00:07:02,240 when you watch the video that I did, it was actually out of sync. 86 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:07,900 So for me, another thing that was an issue was if I were just using Captivate for my 87 00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:14,740 podcast where I upload to them and then my RSS feed is all the way through Captivate. 88 00:07:14,740 --> 00:07:19,100 It would have been a lot easier because their site is designed mobile friendly. 89 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:22,580 There's not a lot of fields in there, but you can do it and you can make that work. 90 00:07:22,580 --> 00:07:24,060 That's how I uploaded the file. 91 00:07:24,060 --> 00:07:28,480 I actually just went ahead and used their mobile website and uploaded it and created 92 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:29,480 it like that. 93 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:36,420 However, for me, my RSS feed is because I like to use some new features in podcasting 94 00:07:36,420 --> 00:07:42,260 2.0 and just kind of roll my own RSS feed. I actually do it in WordPress. I use an app 95 00:07:42,260 --> 00:07:49,580 called, or I plug in in WordPress called PowerPress. And I, so for me, what I do is I take all of 96 00:07:49,580 --> 00:07:54,940 the information that I get from Captivate and bring like, I loop the link for the MP3 97 00:07:54,940 --> 00:08:00,460 and things like that and bring it into my WordPress site. The WordPress site isn't super 98 00:08:00,460 --> 00:08:04,820 mobile friendly. I ran into some issues where I was trying to get over to the edge of things 99 00:08:04,820 --> 00:08:08,980 and I couldn't quite scroll over to the edge. I couldn't quite get to where I needed to. 100 00:08:08,980 --> 00:08:16,660 It wasn't exactly friendly as far as that goes. But you could, if you're just using your 101 00:08:16,660 --> 00:08:20,740 podcast host, usually those are going to be a little more mobile friendly and you could 102 00:08:20,740 --> 00:08:25,780 do that really easily. But for me, since I was using WordPress, that was not super easy 103 00:08:25,780 --> 00:08:33,060 to do. And then the other thing that I ran into issue is I didn't, it wasn't a huge 104 00:08:33,060 --> 00:08:38,900 issue, but it was a negative. I couldn't do an early release. I mean, I could have done that. I 105 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:43,380 just would have had to post it to the Apple podcast connected as well as buy me a coffee. 106 00:08:43,380 --> 00:08:48,580 And I was actually filming it and recording it on the day that I was going to release it. So I 107 00:08:48,580 --> 00:08:54,340 didn't do an early release. And I don't always do early releases with this podcast. But if I do 108 00:08:54,340 --> 00:09:00,340 record the episode earlier in the week or a week before, then I do go ahead and early release it 109 00:09:00,340 --> 00:09:05,240 for supporters. I just didn't do that. So that was kind of a negative. So some of the 110 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:09,700 positive things are is if you're not going to be at your studio, you can create an episode. 111 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:14,700 It works with the right tools and some planning ahead. And by planning ahead, you get your 112 00:09:14,700 --> 00:09:20,900 assets together. So for by assets, what I mean is I grabbed my MP3 of my music and put 113 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:29,060 that on iCloud. So I had it with me on my phone as well as I exported all of my graphics, 114 00:09:29,060 --> 00:09:37,460 lower thirds for my video as I had to do it as an animated GIF just because it didn't work super 115 00:09:37,460 --> 00:09:45,060 well in Adobe Rush if I used it as an MP3 or MP4 with transparency. So I had to use it as a 116 00:09:45,060 --> 00:09:50,900 animated GIF, which worked. It was fine, but I had to get that ahead of time. So I had that with me. 117 00:09:50,900 --> 00:09:55,300 So it may be worth it to kind of plan out if you know you're going to be gone on an episode where 118 00:09:55,300 --> 00:09:59,620 where you want to release an episode, it may be good to go ahead and actually set those 119 00:09:59,620 --> 00:10:03,480 things up so you're ready to go ahead of time that you have them. 120 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:08,780 Or if you just want to get that ready to go, you can always leave that stuff on an iCloud 121 00:10:08,780 --> 00:10:15,740 or a Dropbox or somewhere where you have it on your phone in case you need those things. 122 00:10:15,740 --> 00:10:24,140 So some of the things that I did notice, and again, you can do this. 123 00:10:24,140 --> 00:10:26,060 It's possible to do your mobile show. 124 00:10:26,060 --> 00:10:28,420 If you're only going to do this once in a while, your audience is going to be okay with 125 00:10:28,420 --> 00:10:29,420 it. 126 00:10:29,420 --> 00:10:32,740 If you do it all the time where you're using your phone, your audience will probably not 127 00:10:32,740 --> 00:10:35,880 stick with you because the audio quality isn't super great. 128 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:40,220 But if they know that you're just going to use this one or one time or you need to get 129 00:10:40,220 --> 00:10:43,980 a couple clips of audio from the field, it's not that big of a deal. 130 00:10:43,980 --> 00:10:48,020 But if you don't do it all the time because people aren't going to stick with you, they're 131 00:10:48,020 --> 00:10:50,460 going to stop listening. 132 00:10:50,460 --> 00:10:52,420 So here's my process, guys. 133 00:10:52,420 --> 00:10:57,380 how I did the mobile show. I kind of talked about a little bit on the last episode, but 134 00:10:57,380 --> 00:11:02,980 I want to go into a little bit more deeper and have a deeper dive on that. So I'm on 135 00:11:02,980 --> 00:11:09,220 an iPhone. This process may be a little bit different for those of you who are on an Android. 136 00:11:09,220 --> 00:11:15,060 But what I did is I recorded my episode while I was walking. So again, I recorded pieces 137 00:11:15,060 --> 00:11:19,820 of one part I did while I was sitting at the camper and another part of it I did as I was 138 00:11:19,820 --> 00:11:25,060 was walking. And so I stopped and started recording parts at different parts of the day. This 139 00:11:25,060 --> 00:11:30,100 made editing really hard because for me, mostly I don't do any editing on this show. Like this 140 00:11:30,100 --> 00:11:36,100 clip, this show, if you're listening live, you're going to know that we have, that I 141 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:40,540 had to start over again because I messed up the very beginning with my audio. I'll clip 142 00:11:40,540 --> 00:11:43,720 that out, but I don't do a whole lot of editing. So for me, when I'm stopping and starting 143 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:49,840 and recording different parts of the day. It made editing kind of hard. So it may be 144 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:54,720 easier if I just did one take. Like if I sat down and actually did the show on one take. 145 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,780 The other thing is I didn't really have a place to display my notes on this episode 146 00:11:58,780 --> 00:12:04,800 as well as reading. So for me, normally what I do is I have notion running on my computer. 147 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:09,200 I have it setting right there so I can see different, my outline, what I want to talk 148 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:13,680 about. I didn't have that with me as I was walking. So my episode, I don't think it was 149 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:18,480 as complete as it could have been, which is why I wanted to do a recap today, because 150 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:22,240 I wanted to talk a little bit about what I was doing with it and how exactly I did it. 151 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:27,000 So it wasn't necessarily as complete as it could have been. 152 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,080 I shot the video, like I mentioned earlier, in a mix of the native iPhone app as well as 153 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:32,880 the RODE Capture app. 154 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:37,440 And for whatever reason, the audio and video were out of sync at times during the RODE 155 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,760 Capture app. 156 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:45,960 So after I did that, then I used Adobe Premiere Rush, which is actually a video editing program. 157 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:52,400 I have a subscription to that, so I was able to bring in all of my videos, overlays, and 158 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:54,120 music, and create the final show. 159 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:59,480 So I just edited it like I would any other video, created it, and then what I did is 160 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:07,600 I saved that video to my phone camera app, and then I used the FairRite app, F-E-R-R-I-T-E, 161 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:11,920 And it is normally an audio editor, but I didn't do any editing in it because I did all 162 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:14,920 of my editing in Adobe Rush. 163 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:20,060 But I use that to strip the audio from the video because Adobe Rush doesn't let me save 164 00:13:20,060 --> 00:13:21,560 it as an MP3. 165 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:24,620 So FairWrite allowed me to strip that audio out. 166 00:13:24,620 --> 00:13:30,000 And then I put in my graphic as far as my title goes. 167 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:35,400 And then I used it to tag it, the MP3, put my name in it, put all the relative information 168 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,280 that I normally do. 169 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:41,920 So I use Canva on my phone to create the graphics for it, which is a little bit hard. 170 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:50,360 I like Canva, but normally when I'm creating graphics for shows, I do that on my computer. 171 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:55,520 I do it while I'm in front of a big browser on a bigger screen. 172 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:57,440 On the phone, it was a little bit hard. 173 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:02,320 So that was another thing to kind of warn. 174 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:05,800 Maybe create your graphics ahead of time and save them again if you want to get really 175 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:06,800 intricate with it. 176 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,120 You can do it with Canva on your phone if you want. 177 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,200 So then once I saved, once that was saved, 178 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:14,680 I saved it to iCloud. 179 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:18,000 So I saved my file to the files app. 180 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,640 And then I was able to go to Captivate.fm 181 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,480 and upload it right from there, create my podcasts. 182 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,660 You know, so if you're using your podcast host 183 00:14:27,660 --> 00:14:30,060 to create your RSS feed, 184 00:14:30,060 --> 00:14:32,080 then at this point you could be done. 185 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,240 You could, if you upload it, 186 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:38,120 create your title and stuff in your podcast host, 187 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:39,320 then you can be done. 188 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:41,240 But I use WordPress and PowerPress, 189 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,660 like I was saying, to create my RSS feed. 190 00:14:43,660 --> 00:14:46,200 So for me, I had to create a post in PowerPress 191 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,200 and WordPress, and then I was able to hit publish. 192 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:55,200 So final thoughts, if I were gonna do it again, 193 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,800 I would not do this very often, 194 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:59,840 'cause it was a lot more work than normal. 195 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:01,280 It kind of took me out of my element. 196 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:02,760 Yes, I had a lot of time during the fair 197 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:07,960 because we were there all week, but it kind of took me out of being around the people 198 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:13,040 that I was with. And so I wouldn't do it very often. I have a workflow that works for me 199 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:16,760 for this podcast, which actually got thrown off when I was doing this show this morning. 200 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:23,000 If you again, if you were live with me, you know that I had trouble this morning starting 201 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:28,600 my audio didn't work quite right. And so I have this workflow that works for me and for 202 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:32,440 my normal shows. And this threw me off a little bit because it was a different 203 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:36,920 workflow. So it actually took me longer to edit, I think, than a normal episode 204 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:42,320 would. And it was only like a four minute episode. And so for me, that was a lot 205 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:49,880 harder. So guys, that's those are those are my final thoughts. 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