1. How to Create an Audio SlideShow Using Soundslides Mark Berkey-Gerard, Journalism Department, Rowan University

2. Audio Slide Show Three stages: 1. Gathering and editing audio 2. Gathering and editing images 3. Producing audio slide show by synching sounds to images

3. Think Story First What do you want to communicate? One idea. Keep it simple.

4. Audio Good audio is the basis of multimedia.

5. Audio Voices Music Emotion People telling their own stories in their own words Allows audience to imagine visuals

7. Headphones

8. Microphone

9. Cables

11. Editing Audio Common Types of Audio Files You Should Be Able to Recognize .wma (windows media audio) .wav (uncompressed windows file) .mp3 (most universal audio format – the Soundslides format) .aiff (Mac and standard podcasting format)

12. Editing Audio 1. Plug your recorder into the USB. 2. Drag your audio file(s) onto your desktop. 3. Make a copy. Ctrl and Click. Duplicate. 4. Edit the copy, NOT the original.

13. Editing Audio Switch Audio Converter A free download. Works on both Macs and PCs. Installed in Boz 134.

14. Editing Audio Switch Audio Converter Go>Applications>Switch Drag file in. 3. Set Output to .aiff for Garageband or .wav for Audacity. 4. Hit “Convert” button

16. General rule is one photo for every five seconds of audio (ie 90 sec = 18 photos)

18. You need one image for every five seconds of edited audio. (i.e. 90 sec = 18 images)

19. Wide, medium, close-ups.

21. Crop

22. Rotate

23. Color Correction

24. Make sure they are saved as full sized .jpg “High Quality”

26. Application for creating slide shows and audio slide shows for the Web

28. Works on both MACs and PCs

29. Cost $69.95. But you download free version. It will display “Demo” at beginning,

31. allow you to order them any way you wish

32. take care of file name and linking

34. allow color correction

35. crop or allow you to crop

37. Soundslides Edit your slide show. Adjust the timing for each image, drag the ends in the timeline at the bottom. Click the play button to preview the audio track and adjust the timing of the images. Save every time you make a change.

38. Soundslides Save. Export. It will create a folder called publish_to_web. Save that entire folder as well as your original files.

40. audio file

41. HTML code

43. Soundslides Putting Your Slide Show Online Best option for you is to convert to video Export and Zip. Upload to Soundslides Video Converter Post to YouTube, blog, or burn to a disk.

44. Soundslides Other helpful tutorials at http://markberkeygerard.com/tutorials/

45. Soundslides Also see the “Support” page of the Soundslides website at http://support.soundslides.com/