Podcast Producer is an efficient way to transfer rich media throughout a community or enterprise.
It automates and standardizes video information transfer, and it includes a dual source, screen capture-webcam workflow straight out of the box. The final product is served out via RSS, to anywhere with an RSS reader, (and some bandwidth). The time savings versus someone figuring all this out on their own is worth the price of a Mini Server.
Flip the pages of a PDF file without touching a thing!
The Montage workflow, combined with PDF files, introduces a sweet and stunning accessibility tweak.
- Load a PDF file into the Podcast capture screen.
- Choose the Montage workflow option.
- Add the episode and description and send it off the the podcast producer.
See it in action -- http://ipliance.com/index.php/eng/Blog/Podcast-Producer-Easy-Page-Flipper
The duration between page flips is adjustable in the workflow using Podcast Composer.
Montage ships with 3 second flips by default. I set the duration up to 30 seconds and saved it as montagee.
Although 10 times the duration, the slower flipping file is only about twice the size on disk. Podcast Producer has some decent optimizations built right in for this kind of stuff.
After much trial and error, finally have a sweet Podcast Producer setup running on the Mini Server.
Distributing Podcasts
Locally in iTunes
Before shot..
During Podcast producer setup, several RSS feeds are presented for entry into the Mail app of the client machine. RSS may be grabbed by user, by workflow, by keyword, custom or history parameters as defaults. By user, or workflow, makes the most sense for local.
To distribute locally, copy the url listing for the feed, something like.. feed://mini3.brethower.net:8171/podcastproducer/atom_feeds/6061889F-0AD4-44A1-A901-EC4E2636CE23
Then in iTunes, main menu, choose "Advanced->Subscribe to podcast.." and enter the copied feed url into the box provided.
------The feed then appears, get the one desired with a double-click..
-----The podcast loads into iTunes on the local machine, double-click the podcast to start it.
youtube
When the files appear in the local feed, control click the attachment files and save the desired resolution to local disk. If you don't know what desired resolution means, just use 360p and you will figure it out as you go with minimum bandwidth usage.
Then login to youtube and upload. Youtube handles the .m4v files created by podcast producer without a wimper.