Podcasting Guide
Podcast Producer
Podcast Producer automates the following steps for creating a Podcast:- add intro and exit videos as well as various transitions
- compress in the appropriate format(s)
To use Podcast Producer do:
- start Podcast Capture (installed on all Leopard machines)
- log into oliver with your lab account
- select video source (file for lecture videos, ensure the video is Quicktime-readable)
- select the appropriate workflow (bright logo for dark movies and vice versa) and enter title and description
- submit
The video will then be copied to oliver and processed whenever there is some spare processing power. When the job is done, you can download the video from afp://oliver/Podcast Producer/Podcasts/YYYY-MM-DD.
To monitor progress you can run Xgrid Admin (contained in the Admin Tools), connect to oliver.informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (watch spelling) and authenticate with your Kerberos credentials from a bound machine (e.g. a lab machine). This will tell you what jobs are processing, completed, or failed, but not how far along they are in the encoding.
Manual Podcasting
A podcast lets you distribute media content in a few simple steps. You can read more about podcasting at Wikipedia.Publish a podcast
Download podcast.xml. It is attached to this page. You will need to Control Click to download it. Otherwise, Safari will open it as an RSS feed and alter it.The tags are self explanatory. The most important tags are the
Look at the information in the
When you are done, upload podCast.xml (along with your media files) to your server.
Subsribe to a podcast
In Safari, open the podCast.xml on your server. Drag the URL icon to iTunes. Do this directly. The file is altered if you store it on your Desktop.After the podcast is in iTunes, Click on 'Settings' (Bottom Right Corner in iTunes). You can specify scheduled updates and wether to keep old media files. If you have an iPod, you can download the media directly (see 'iPod Preferences').