Moderating at the Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies for Government

This last Wednesday I “Moderated” a presentation given by James Melzer. I figured I would try my hand with this podcasting thing. So with James’s permission I used my Olympus digital voice recorder (WS-100) and taped his presentation. I used Audacity to edit the audio. I was very pleased with the control and ease that I was able to edit and prepare the audio. I know some audiophile’s out their will provably say that my editing skills suck but to them I say “Hi, I think the quality is ok.” You can hear all of the presentation just fine and all the questions you can hear by increasing the volume. Here is the actual presentation if you would like to try and follow along with the mp3.

Oh yeah if anyone knows of a opensource (linux or windows based) non-linear editor that exports to flash or a quicktime please leave a comment. I was fooling around with sync’ing the presentation images with the audio. I was able to edit it well with my normal DVD editor but the issue is that it would only output mpeg4. The file ends up being like 510MB’s at a low quality setting. I would like an editor that could export the video to make the file a lot smaller and sorry I don’t want to use the M$ file format.