Apple GarageBand '08 - Manual (Page 82)

82 Chapter 10 Tutorial 8: Creating Podcasts
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:
 Create audio and video podcasts
 Find and import media files using the Media Browser
 Show the podcast and movie tracks
 Add and edit markers and marker regions
 Add artwork, URLs, URL titles, and chapter titles to markers
 Add episode artwork and episode information
 Edit marker region and episode artwork
 “Duck” backing tracks to make narration and dialogue easier to hear
Creating an Enhanced Podcast Episode
You create an enhanced podcast episode in GarageBand by creating a podcast project,
recording your narration, adding podcast sounds and other audio, adding markers,
artwork, URLs, and chapter titles, adding episode artwork and information, and ducking
backing tracks.
Creating a Podcast Project
1 Open GarageBand, or if it is open, close the current project.
The GarageBand screen appears.
2 Click Create New Podcast Episode.
A new, blank podcast project appears in the GarageBand window. In a podcast project,
the podcast track appears above the other tracks in the timeline. The Media Browser
opens, and the editor shows the marker list, with columns for the start time, artwork,
chapter title, URL title, and URL for each marker. Podcast projects include tracks for
male and female voices, jingles (musical background tracks), and radio sounds.
Note: A project can have either a podcast track or a movie track, but not both. If you
try to show the podcast track for a project that contains a movie track, a dialog appears
asking if you want to replace the movie track with a podcast track.
Recording the Podcast Audio
You can create podcasts with only spoken narration or dialogue, or add musical
backing tracks, sound effects, and other sounds. You record narration in a Real
Instrument track. The podcast project includes two Real Instrument tracks, named Male
Voice and Female Voice optimized for recording spoken narration or dialogue.