[Imc] U-C IMC on INN--14 Feb

[Paul Riismandel]

Hey, I think the piece sounded good.  It's tough to cram all that info into 
1'15" and I think you all did a great job.

Phone recordings can be really problematic--phones are subject to all sorts 
of abnormalities and interference.  Actually, most phone calls are now 
digital and they are compressed somewhere in the system, which introduces 
problems with minidiscs and mp3.  In short when you record something onto a 
medium that uses compression, like minidisc, you lose some data, though 
it's typically inaudible.  If you transfer that sound into another 
compression format, like mp3, you lose more data.  But because they're not 
the same compression schema they throw out different data, and that can 
have audible results.  Since you started with a phone call, which probably 
was compressed digitally, you probably had 3 compression/decompression 
cycles with 3 completely different schemas (codecs).  I hear similar 
problems all the time on Pacifica and even the BBC, especially when 
correspondents phone in their story.

The best way to avoid this problem is to record directly to the computer if 
you think the file will be mp3'd.

--Paul

At 09:59 AM 2/14/01 -0600, brent john mcdonald wrote:

>A 1'15'' news piece on recent community support for the retirement of
>Chief Illiniwek airs today on INN (Independent Native News).  It was
>produced by myself with help from Brian Hagy, Peter Miller and Pauline
>Bartolone.  The 5min. news bit can be downloaded at www.nativevoice.org.
>
>Peter, our telephone interview with Rev. Jack must have converted poorly
>from Wave to MP3, there's an electronic echo I hadn't noticed before.  So,
>they've edited that part down.
>
>Granted, I stand to improve on my radio news technique.  Unfortunately, I
>didn't speak with the producer again until Monday, at which time he
>informed me of their "normal procedure" for gathering news (i.e.
>overseeing production of the script).  Anyway, they seemed to like it
>and are enthusiastic about working with the U-C IMC in the future.
>
>Please send any feedback/criticism my way.
>
>Brent McDonald
>
>
>
>On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Peter Miller wrote:
>
> > Hi, Brent-
> >
> > How did your Independent Native News piece go?  Did you manage to put 
> it all together and send it off?
> >
> > -Peter
> >
>
>
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