-=PCTechTalk=- Re: recording question/long..

Found version 8 here, does this look like an ok site to you to download it 
from?  ;0

http://www.infopackets.com/videos/winzip.htm

Christine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:27 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: recording question/long..


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> Peace,
> GMan
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> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:12 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: recording question/long..
>
>
>> Hi Gman,
>>
> ...
>> My recordings may or may not be over a
>> minute long, hard to say right now.  Can you point me to this free
>> program?
>> and it wont run out on me in 14 days?  I may end up though making a
>> video/movie rather than just a sound file but undecided yet in this
>> project.
>> So want to start with this first.
>
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/
> And, since it's open source, it won't EVER run out of time.        :O)
>
>> I have two very old microphones that in their time were good quality, or
>> even three, one a Shure, forgot the other two brands but are like ;0 20+
>> years old lol.  Not sure how/if they can hook up to my soundcard/computer
>> to
>> use those?  I think they have a 1/4 inch plug with the cord that came 
>> with
>> them.  A thought just occurred to me too, I have a new piece of equipment
>> at
>> work I have yet to have time to explore but it may have the capability 
>> for
>> me to record onto it onto a CD, I need to check it out.
>
> I would imagine the Shure has an XLR output, making it impossible to use
> with your computer unless you first go through at least a preamp.  Any 
> that
> have a 1/4 inch plug should be cleaned off with a good electronic cleaning
> liquid and some elbow grease.  Afterwards, you can plug it into your sound
> card using a 1/4 inch to 1/8 inch adapter.  Mono to stereo would be best,
> but mono to mono would still work.  If you get the latter, be sure to use
> Audacity to duplicate the single track onto the other side so that it 
> fills
> both stereo channels.  If you REALLY would like to get it sounding nice, 
> use
> two mics (1/4 inch plugs) into a dual 1/4 inch to single stereo 1/8 inch
> plug going into the sound card.  That way you'll be able to separate the
> mics a little and get some true spacial effect going.
>
>> How do I zip the file once I created the folder and put all associated
>> files
>> in it.  It has been a long time since I zipped a file, I dont recall.  Is
>> it
>> with winzip?  I will have to search my old notes to recall how to send my
>> sound files to my electronic filebox at school also when turning in this
>> assignment but I like to be able to send a presentation like this to
>> others
>> so they can view it in its entirity as you are describing.
>
> Get the entire folder together and then search for, download and install a
> copy of WinZip that's earlier than version 9 (it's up to 11 now, I think,
> but the earlier versions are best for this).  It'll bug you with a screen
> every time you try to use the program, but that won't affect the finished
> product.  Once installed, locate the folder, Right click on it and choose
> "Add to 'nameofthefolder.zip'" from the context menu.  Then, as I 
> suggested
> earlier, Copy the resulting Zip file to your desktop and then try to open 
> it
> (Right click and select "Extract to here").  It should extract the 
> contents
> into a folder using the same name you gave the original folder.  Of 
> course,
> this all means that you should carefully select the name of the folder,
> since everyone will use it as the Home of your presentation.          :O)
>
> Peace,
> GMan
> http://reddit.com
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"
>
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