I’ve started using Gigavox Audio Lite to publish my podcasts and it’s drastically reduced the amount of time I spend publishing my podcasts as well as money spent outsourcing the editing. It’s hard to believe that this service is free (thanks Michael and Doug)!
The time savings is just the beginning of the benefits that GigaVox Audio Lite offers. This post is the first of at least a couple articles outlining how I use the service and how it can help you with your podcast as well.
Let me start by painting a picture of how I recorded and published Podcasting Underground BEFORE using GigaVox.
- I record the segments that change each episode: episode ID (e.g. “This is podcasting Underground episode #X), main body segment and announcements
- The clips are normalized to make sure levels are consistent across the board
- I do a bit of post-processing on the audio (i.e. EQ and compression)
- I pay an audio engineer to edit these segments together with the pieces that stay the same each episode: intro, transition music and outro
- The audio engineer exports the MP3 file and adds the ID3 tags
- The episode is published to the blog and feed
Steps 2, 4 and 5 are automated with Gigavox Audio Lite. The work flow now takes half the time and looks like this.
- Record segments that change each episode
- Post-processing
- Upload WAV files to Gigavox
- Gigavox does the following: normalize, stitch together segments that change with the fixed segments, convert to MP3 and add ID3 tags
- Publish to blog/feed
Cutting publishing time in half is significant to any podcaster and critical to a business podcaster when time is money. I still pay an assistant to do some of the work, but since it takes him less time it saves me money.
I should make it clear that Gigavox is not a podcast host. You still use your own podcast hosting, but Gigavox aids in the process of editing and creating your MP3 file. In the next article I’ll go over exactly ow GigaVox Audio Lite does this.
Anyone else using Gigavox to publish? What kind of time savings are you experiencing?
August 12th, 2007 at 3:40 am
The GigaVox Audio Lite beta is currently closed to new users.
August 12th, 2007 at 6:04 am
Thanks Jason, but it’s a closed beta so it does me no good.
Their Levelator software is excellent, so I had high hopes for this. Perhaps you can work a deal for your readers?
August 12th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Thanks for info but this is now closed to new users. Any suggestions?
August 12th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
I haven’t used it yet but I’m going to download it and try it out! I have a podcast and my episodes are usually between 25 – 30 minutes. It takes me an hour and a half to produce them. Hopefully this helps!
August 12th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
I’ll check into this. I didn’t realize that they would be closing it. They may just be getting ready to bring it out of beta and re-launch. I’ll check with Michael and let you know.