How to Start Your Own Podcast. The podcast craze of the past several years shows no signs of slowing down, and while every armchair broadcaster with a voice recorder app is eager to get in the game, creating a professional sounding podcast isnt as simple as it might seem. Heres how to create, record, and publish your own basic podcastand get people to listen. This story originally ran in June 2. August 2. 01. 7 with additional reporting from Patrick Austin. efore You Start, Be Ready to Commit. Before you rush into things, its important to keep in mind that podcasts take a lot of effort to get going. Theyre not just recordings of people talking not the good ones, anyway. Pat Flynn, host of the Smart Passive Income podcast, recommends you treat podcasting the same way you would any other big project Podcasting is extremely fun and exciting, but there is one thing you must do before you start podcasting Commit. You must internally commit to podcasting, as you must do with anything that is potentially beneficial but takes some time and effort to do. Its easy to assume that podcasts are easy to produce because theyre audio only, but dont be fooled. They can take up a lot of time to put together, especially at first. Also, podcasts do best when theyre released consistently. Download the free trial version below to get started. Doubleclick the downloaded file to install the software. If youre interested in developing any kind of listener base, you have to be ready to release episodes on a regular basis. All in all, podcasting can be fun work, but its still work and should be treated as such. You also shouldnt expect to get rich from podcasting either. Its certainly possible to generate income from podcasting, but that usually requires advertisements and sponsorshipsboth of which youll get after youve built up a listenership big enough to make it worthwhile to advertisers. If youre not interested in starting a podcast for the fun of it or to have your voice heard, you might not get much out of it unless you already have an audience. What Youll Need. You cant start a podcast without equipment, and good equipment will go a long way. Heres what youll need Microphones Any microphone will work for recording your podcast, but listeners can usually tell the difference between low and high quality microphones. If youre not sure what to look for, our list of the five best desktop microphones is a great place to start I use four analog Audio Technica AT2. As you shop around, youll also need to decide whether you want to use a USB or analog XLR microphone. USB mics convert analog sound into digital so you can plug a USB mic directly into any computer and start recording without much hassle, but you could potentially get lower audio quality compared to analog. Considering you dont need any extra tools or devices to record with a USB mic, they can be a little cheaper in the long run. Analog microphones use XLR connectors, which means you need another device to get your audio onto your computer, but you can get higher audio quality and can use them with other sound equipment if you had a PA system or wanted to play live music, for example. Of course, if you have a gaming headset or other basic microphone around, you can easily use that too. Portable XLR Recorder optional If you plan on using analog microphones for your podcast, youll need something that captures your analog audio and converts it to digital. Portable XLR recorders can capture multiple microphone channels and allow you to do basic sound level adjusting and muting on the fly. Audio files automatically get organized and stored on a memory card that you can insert into a card reader or slot in your computer. These are amazing tools, but they can be expensive. You can find them for anywhere between 1. I use a 4. 00 Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with four available analog channels. Audio Interface optional If you want to record directly to your computer with your analog microphones, youll need an audio interface. These devices allow you to plug in one or more analog microphones and will convert the analog audio to digital. Most audio interfaces will connect to your computer via USB or Firewire. Audio interfaces can cost as little as 3. You can see why a USB microphone is a cheaper option. A Computer Any Windows computer or Mac should work fine to record, edit, and upload your podcast. Thankfully, editing audio doesnt take a ton of computing power. Additionally, depending on how you choose to recorddirectly to the computer or onto a dedicated recording deviceyour computer will also need the right ports. USB microphones, for example, will obviously need an open USB port. If youre using analog microphones with a portable XLR recorder or audio interface device, youll need either a 3. USB port, or in some cases, a Firewire port. So before you spend any money on equipment, make sure you have a computer that can support it. Audio Editing Software For the actual recording and editing, youll need a Digital Audio Workstation or DAW, there are a lot of good options out there, but the licenses for some of them can cost a pretty penny, though. Licenses for professional level DAWs like Reason or Pro Tools can cost anywhere between 3. Apps like Hindenburg offer simpler audio editing software for under 1. Reaper is a fully loaded audio production app for 6. Adobes audio editing software Audition CC is available with a 1. Because of that, most people will recommend free open source programs like Audacity when youre just getting started, and thats what well use an example throughout this how to guide. Pop Filters optional The clearer your audio can sound, the better. Pop filters, while not required, are fairly cheap and can keep your plosives from making a nasty sound on your recording. Ever have one of those days where youre just sitting around, falsifying documents, and just cant seem to choose the right font to convey your alleged corruption Hi, I have the same issue trying to uninstall the Desktop application get the same pop up but I refuse to uninstall all my Adobe applications I have on my computer. If you dont want to buy any, though, you can make some of your own. You might be thinking that all this equipment is pretty expensive, and youre not wrong. However keep in mind that decent audio equipment will last forever if you take care of it. It may be expensive to get started, but after the initial purchase, youre set. Step One Narrow Your Topic and Find Your Niche. Just like blogs, there are a ton of podcasts out there. That means that you can probably find a podcast about everything under the sun already. Dont get discouraged While just about every broad topic is already covered, you just have to find your spin on things to make an old idea something new. Dear Lifehacker, As a side projectexperiment, Ive started my own blog. The problem is, now that I Read more Read. For example, if you wanted to make a podcast about music, ask yourself if theres an audience out there for what you want to talk about. Maybe you narrow your idea down from music in general to bluegrass specifically. Now your coverage is specific the music, people, and culture of bluegrass. Once you have your topic narrowed down, it helps to add a spin to it. Maybe you talk about bluegrass music and culture while sipping moonshine with your co hosts. Its kind of true that everything has been done before, but it hasnt all been done the way you would do it. So find an angle thats personally interesting and youll be better off. Step Two Download, Install, and Set Up Audacity. As mentioned earlier, Audacity is a great DAW for podcasting beginners. Its open source, free to use as long as you like, and is available for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Before you can jump into recording, however, there are a few tricks to getting it all set up properly Download Audacity 2. Connect your microphone and open Audacity. See if your microphone is being recognized by Audacity by checking the drop down menu next to the small microphone icon. If you see your mic, go ahead and select it. In the top left corner, you should see the pause, play, stop, skip back, skip forward, and record buttons. Click the record button and talk into your mic to make sure its working properly. Stop recording and playback what you just recorded to make sure everything sounds okay. Youll want to export your audio in the MP3 format later on. In order to do that, youll need to download and install the Lame MP3 encoder for either Windows or Mac. Once thats installed, close and reopen Audacity. Record yourself talking for a few seconds like before, then go to File, then Export Audio, and select MP3 Files in the Save as type dropdown menu. Name your file something simple like test. Find the MP3 file on your desktop and try playing it in your MP3 player of choice, just to make sure everything is working properly. Document Cloud Product Tracks Enterprise Administration Guide. The latest versions of the Acrobat product family are now part of the Document Cloud DC product offering. Product offerings include two new tracks with unique update strategies. Two tracksThe Acrobat DC product family introduces two tracks for both Acrobat which are essentially different products The Continuous track provides service based tools as well as new features, security and platform enhancements, and bug fixes as part of frequent and most often silent updates. Over time, the Continuous tracks update cadence will be more frequent than the Classic track. Classic license program customers do not have access to this track for Acrobat. The Classic track is similar to the 1. Free services are available, but optional. Like previous releases, a quarterly update cadence delivers security and platform enhancements as well as bug fixes. Example release schedules Which track should I useContinuous trackChoose this track if you Use named user deployments that is, you want to manage entitlements through enterprise IDs it is possible to use traditional, serialized licensing. In services centric environments, its beneficial to have a single identity of the user across the desktop, mobile cloud. DC products support federated and enterprise IDs for identity based licensing. This track also supports serialized deployments. Want new features delivered in updates as soon as they become available. Use DC services. Would like to take advantage of frequent updates you can leverage a new silent and automatic update mode but it is not required. Can automatically update or push controlled updates on a 6. Since web and desktop updates are released in tandem, keeping the desktop updated ensures features and functionality remain synchronized with Document Cloud services. For more detail, see Desktop Cloud compatibility. For the Continuous track, only the latest base release and last update will be available for download. Classic trackChoose this track if you Use serialized deployments that is, you dont need identity based licensing and deployment and the ability to manage users via the Admin Console. Want to limit the feature set to those included in major releases. Have not purchased services. Want to manage updates like previous 1. Manage a locked environment and need to control the frequency and nature of updates. All updates remain available for download. License typesLicenses are associated with a particular track. A Continuous track license cannot be used with a Classic installer and vice versa. License programsLicense programs and bundletrack associationsLicense program. Plan names. Tracks. ETLAAdobe Document Cloud for enterprise Premium 1, Premium 2, Pro w services, Std w services. Continuous. ETLAAdobe Document Cloud for enterprise Pro or Std. Continuous. ELA, CLP, TLPAdobe Acrobat Pro Document Cloud and Standard Document Cloud. Classic. VIPAdobe Acrobat Pro Document Cloud and Standard Document Cloud. Continuous. Can I switch tracksWith the right license, yes. Installing a different track requires uninstalling the existing product first. Granting usage rightsDC products support named users deployments in addition to traditional, serialized deployments. Named user deployments provide the following advantages Management of usage rights for users and groups via the Admin Console. Streamlined license management and compliance. Provisioning mobile devices for Document Cloud services. Leveraging existing systems so that users can fully participate in more efficient e sign workflows. A comparison of named user and serialized deploymentsItem. Named user deployment. Serialized deployment. License access. Admin Console. Licensing website LWSLicense association. Assigned users and groups. Specific machines. License programs. ETLA, VIPELA, CLP, TLPEntitlement granted toeach usereach machine. Entitlement management. Admin Console. Pre deployment configuration. Internet connection. Required Users must log in and signing out deactivates product. Only required pre deployment for activation. Activation. Occurs on user log in. Admin pre activates for all users. Services IDFederated ID, Enterprise ID, Adobe IDAdobe IDIntegrated mobile provisioning. Yes. No. Services access. Yes optionalYes optionalVirtualization support. App V As of Jan 2. Citrix, VMWareCitrix, WTS, App VSCCM, AIPGPO, ARDYes. YesFor the VIP program, the product performs an online activation check every 2. Users can be offline for 3. Installer bit locationsThe requisite installers are available from the following locations Acrobat download locationsLocation. Continuous. Classic. Whats available Base installer and last update. Base installer and all updates. Admin Console. Base installer. None. Licensing Website. Base installer. Base installer. Download pages. Last update only. All updates. FTP site. DC dir Last update only. All updates. Reader download locationsLocation. Continuous. Classic. Whats available Base installer and last update. Base installer and all updates. Admin Console. None. None. Download pages. Base installer and last update. Base installer and all updates. FTP site. DC dir Base installer and last update. Base installer and all updatesget. Latest full installer. None. Continuous vs. Classic comparisonAcrobat DC tracksContinuous vs. Classic track comparisonFeature. Continuous. Classic. Updates. Frequent. Planned quarterlies. Update order. Base last update. Base last update. Update UIAuto or off. Auto or off. Update registry controls. Auto or off. Win Same as 1. Mac Auto or off. Services integration. All tools enabled ree tools only psell enabled Standard only. NALanguages. MUI only licenses are language specific. MUI only licenses are language specific. File and preference paths. Versionless always under DCVersioned Under major version, 2. Windows installer. AcrobatDCWebWWMUI. Acrobat2. 01. 52. WebWWMUI. exe. Windows install paths. C Program. FilesAdobeAcrobat. DCC Program. FilesAdobeAcrobat. Registry paths. HKCUSoftwareAdobeAdobe. AcrobatDCHKCUSoftwareAdobeAdobe. Acrobat2. 01. 52. Application data pathAppdataRoamingAdobeAcrobatDCAppdataRoamingAdobeAcrobat2. Mac installer. AcrobatDCWebWWMUI. Acrobat. 20. 152. MUI. dmg. Mac install pathsApplicationsAdobe. Acrobat. DCAdobe. Acrobat. appApplicationsAdobe. Acrobat. 20. 152. Adobe. Acrobat. app. Mac plist pathsLibraryPreferencescom. Acrobat. Pro. plistDChiveLibraryPreferencescom. Acrobat. Pro. plist2. Mac application data pathLibraryApplication. SupportAdobeAcrobatDCLibraryApplication. SupportAdobeAcrobat2. FTP download locationsftp ftp. DCftp ftp. adobe. What services are visible in the user interface varies by the purchased track and license type. Use the Customization Wizard or registryplist configuration to remove unwanted items from the user interface. For the Continuous track, all services are visible and functional. Note that some features, such as Create PDF and Export PDF, are part of the desktop offering and dont use a DC service. For the Classic track, paid for service based tools are unavailable. Features such as Export PDF are part of the desktop product and dont require a service to function. Free services which dont duplicate existing functionality are on by default. Reader DC tracksContinuous vs. Classic track comparisonFeature. Continuous. Classic. Updatesfrequent often silent. Planned quarterlies. Update order. Base last update. Base last update. Update UINone no UI but registry settings can still be usedAuto or off. Update registry controls. Auto or off. Auto or off. Services integration. All tools visible ree tools visible psell enabled On by default. On by default. Spelling pack. Add on. Bundled. Font pack. Add on. Bundled. Languages. Win single language or MUI, Mac MUI only. MUI only. File and preference paths. Versionless always under DCVersioned Under major version, 2. Windows installer. Acro. Rdr. DClt version lt lang. ID. exe. Acro. Rdr. 20. 152. 01. MUI. exe. Windows install paths. C Program. FilesAdobeAcrobat. Reader. DCC Program. FilesAdobeAcrobat. Reader. 20. 152. Registryplist paths. HKCUSoftwareAdobeAcrobat. ReaderDCHKCUSoftwareAdobeAcrobat. Reader2. 01. 52. Application data pathAppdataRoamingAdobeAcrobatDCAppdataRoamingAdobeAcrobat2. Mac installer. Acro. Rdr. DClt version MUI. Acro. Rdr. 20. 152. MUI. dmg. Mac install pathsApplicationsAdobe. Acrobat. Reader. DC.
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