This week, an e-mail from Jim Weishorn regarding a video on Adobe TV that features some spectral view/Photoshop trickery,
and then it’s on to a look at (and a listen  to) the mastering plugin.

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This week, a couple of listener e-mails answered.
For those wanting to hack into their registry for import/export of keyboard shortcuts, the address you’re looking for is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Audition\3.0\Prefs\Keys\en_US\

For anyone wanting to learn more about Mastering, Brad Blackwood’s forum is here.

Then, a quick look at the Quick Filter.

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At last!
Just when you thought it was never gonna get here… the big one ton is here!

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To download the movie, go to
“BTP100 downloads“.

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So, what’s in store for episode 100?
A promo remix in real time, for Rem Lavictoire.

Yeah yeah yeah, but what about the damned prizes, man? That’s all we’re here for!

Oh yeah, right…. ok.

Well, Peter Baker at Beatbox Music

has been kind enough to donate a copy of the Podcasting Production Toolkit CD.
This is a CD of royalty free music AND sound effects that you can use for polishing up your podcast!

While I will confess to not having heard the CD yet, I have dealt with Peter professionally for over 20 years, and he has always represented some of the finest music production companies around… and I have no reason to suspect that this won’t be an AWESOME collection of sounds to have at your disposal.

And to keep the CD theme going, I have 3 more copies of the Adobe Audition 2.0 Essential Training Guide from Lynda.com to give away as 2nd, 3rd and 4th prizes.

OK, so what do you have to do to win one of these great prizes?

Well, this is where you’re gonna hate me. I’m not going to tell you… just yet.
In order to make this fair, I’m going to hold off posting the details of the competition for 72 hours.
The reason for that is, it will give those on slower internet connections a chance to be involved too.
So, at around midday GMT on Wednesday (25th July 2007), I’ll post the details right here.

Nasty, aren’t I?

In the meantime, enjoy the video!

OK, I had an idea for the 100th episode of BTP, and it’s fallen in a hole.

Bugger.

So, I had another thought as I was commuting to work this morning.

Remember ep 64? That was the “promo rebuild” episode. I’d be keen to do something like that again, but this time…. hold on to ya hats, people… I’ll do it as a screen capture (a la my Lynda training tutorials), so you can not only hear what I’m doing… you’ll be able to see it as well.

So, yeah, it will be a video version of the podcast.

OK, I can hear you all chomping at the bit… what do I want from you?

I want guinea pigs!

If you’ve got a promo that you’ve built for your podcast/internet radio show/web site/whatever, and you’d be interested in having me give it a makeover, then here’s the deal:

You MUST still have all the component files that you used in the promo. I’m going to need those if I’m to rebuild your promo.

The promo should be no longer than 45 seconds in length.

Next, send me an mp3 version of your final mix.

You can e-mail it, you can send it to me via YouSendIt or some other online delivery service, or you can just throw it on your server and send me a direct link to download it. I don’t really mind which method you use.

I’ll go through the submissions and pick a promo to rebuild.

I’ll then e-mail the lucky (or is that “unlucky”? ) candidate and get you to send me all the component parts.

Game on, guinea pigs! Let me hear what ya got!

In episode 64, Bruce completely rebuilds and remixes a promo for the Dead Science podcast in real time. Bruce delivers a step-by-step dialogue throughout, explaining not only WHAT he did, but WHY he did it as well.

Grab a 320 kbps version of this episode right here.
WARNING! File size is just over 120 MB!
This is definitely NOT for the bandwidth impaired!

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This week, Bruce takes a close look at the “Mastering and Analysis” workspace, plus the keyboard shortcut of the week.

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