By the way, anyone know a good freeware audio editor? I’m about to run out a free trial and trying to find one earlier really did drive me bats. I need it to be able to perform simple tasks, such as attaching .wma files to each other consecutively(which Audacity seemed strangely unable to do…), and then have sections removed. Being able to amplify(I actually amplified the Medal Winners open section on this file, first time I’ve ever done that) and tell exactly where in the timeline certain sounds are would be good bonuses. Meanwhile, I at least had the trial software for the all important Grand Prix week episode: May 21-27, 2012
One from each event:
I actually started this one Sunday, in hope I might figure out some way to get most of the work for these done on the weekends since I may not that long from now find myself working full time. I haven’t yet, but at least this one got uploaded early enough I was willing to risk using some recap footage from this week’s Battle of the Blades, though after seeing the performances blocked this morning I wasn’t using footage from they themselves. Thankfully it wasn’t blocked. It’s not annotated yet; that’ll be done after Dancing With the Stars. ETA: Finished the annotations, discovered in the process I forgot the last two titles. Well, it wasn’t like they were completely necessary…
This week’s lesson: always make sure your microphone is turned on. I spent half an hour trying to record, continually getting derailed by the names of the Russian pair commonly known as I&M(spelling their names gives me a headache too, but I didn’t have to for this vid), and then nearly melted down over the word “congelado,” only to discover I’d wasted my time because it hadn’t recorded and I had to do the whole thing over. Though at least I got off relatively easy with SBSi this week; they didn’t even block me in Korea!(Though they did in Japan. Also Malaysia, which is sad because this may be the only video I make that mentions their skaters for a long while).
