In Celebration of World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, I want to offer you a sneak peak at a new tool we have developed and are readying for release. This tool will enable a user friendly way for non-archivists or non-digital preservation specialists to safely transfer born digital data to the archive utilizing stringent digital preservation standards…for free….
I have been traveling around and talking a great deal, lately, about OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer). If you aren’t aware of OHMS, its a free, open source digital tool that improves the user experience for online oral history–connecting a textual search to the corresponding moment in your online audio or video interview. OHMS…
First up for my reviews of analog devices for digitally recording telephone interviews will be the JK Audio QuickTap which costs $59. The QuickTap is an inexpensive way to easily interface your landline telephone with your digital audio recorder. A few things are required for the QuickTap to work: Your digital audio recorder must have a…
The Rode iXY-L ($199.00 USD) brings high quality stereo recording to your iOS device turning your iPhone or iPad into a powerful portable recorder. The Rode iXY-L microphone is Rode’s newly updated iOS microphone attachment that is compatible with Apple’s Lightning Connector on newer iOS devices. In conjunction with Rode’s Rec App, The iXY-L records and exports a multitude of formats including the uncompressed Wave,…
We now have amazing opportunities for conducting remote oral histories using a range of Internet-based tools like Skype or Google Hangout. Through a webcam and a microphone, “face to face” or audio interviews via the Web are now quite easy to conduct. The challenge is effectively recording these interviews. I have to say that I…
It is common now for a single oral history interview that was recorded on video to span multiple video data files. While I advocate maintaining these individual parts as the “master” files in your archival system, delivery of this interview, in those same component parts, will prove to be a very frustrating user experience. At…
So why would you possibly want to strip the audio from a beautiful video interview? We do it at the Nunn Center, mainly, for transcription. When we transcribe an interview (which means sending it out to a transcriptionist), we have found it more efficient in our workflow to transfer audio files rather than video files. While…
Here is an initial audio test of the Zoom H-5 digital audio recorder using the standard X/Y microphone module, an external (XLR) lavaliere microphone, and the optional MSH-6 Mid Side Stereo and XYH-6 microphone modules. Example #1: Mic: Standard X/Y microphone module Position: Directly at source Settings: 24/96 .wav Example #2: Mic: External lavalier…
The following video is the first in an ongoing series of tutorials called “Keep It Simple” which explores technical workflows that may seem difficult on the surface but really aren’t. I will explore all kinds of topics in this series, but this post demonstrates how to use Apple’s Final Cut Pro X video editing software to…
