Podcast Indexing Study
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Options (packages)
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(Draft by Roman Fedoriw for CS internal Use - P08)
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Options/Packages Discussed 
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        Manual Split, Quicktime, GarageBand, Flash, 
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        Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premier Pro,
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        and an aside on Adobe Creative Suite 

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   <li><b>Manual Split </b>
   <p>Manually Splitting recording into separate smaller recordings.
     <UL>
      <li><b>Independent</b> of any recording package
      <p>This method makes no difference, between recording packages
         like Audacity, GarageBand, and Logic.
	 Using a "Manual Split" approach
	 you would use a recording package to cut the
	 recording into smaller recordings, and then in 
	 a xml file, publish each segment.
	 <li><b>Drawback</b>
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	 Increased editing tedium.
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	 Editing is expensive, and time consuming.
	 This method forces one into such a domain.
	 Possible operations for audio editor person
	  <UL>
	   <li>Locate the chapter section, 
	   <li>highlight copy the section into
	   <li>open a blank recording name for the new section
	   <li>paste into new blank recording, and save.
	  </UL>
	  <p>
	  Although conceptually simple, editing by its nature
	  is time consuming, and on an hour lecture stream 
	  adding 
	  zooming and scrolling navigation operations that
          can overshoot a selection, can tend to produce 
	  a hit and miss operation.
          <p>
	  It was suggested that we split an hour recording 
	  into 6 chapters.
	  With 6 chapters, you have increased the number of 
	  of recordings to manage, (12 recordings if you
	  include the wav and mp3 variants),
	  as well as bumped the problem
	  into the domain of regular audio editing.
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	  An editor (xml or otherwise)  would then be used to publish each 
	  separate recording.

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   <li><b>Quicktime</b>
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       <li><b>Quicktime the Container</b>
       <p>
       It is reported that Quicktime is a container that
       can hold various media typed in general, mp3 being
       one of them. 
       
       <li><b>index file</b>
       <p>
       An extra text file would be needed to contain
       the chapter's
       <UL>
        <li>start point
        <li>title chapter
	<p>
	This text file, is magnitudes simpler than 
	an xml file in the Manual Split method.
       </UL>
       <li><b>Support Layers</b>
         <p> Need Appropriate Quicktime package at Server, Developer, and Student Level
     </UL>
   <li><b>GarageBand</b>
       <p>
       Latest GarageBand has an ability to insert chapter markers,
       and then export media into Quicktime according to biology,
       however they mentioned that the markers would disappear,
       <p>
       Here is an example from another site.

       <A HREF="http://docb-guitar.podomatic.com/entry/2006-10-10T13_36_35-07_00">
             http://docb-guitar.podomatic.com/entry/2006-10-10T13_36_35-07_00
       </A>
       <p>
       In this case, rather than "text" for chapter markers we
       have "pictures". There are two ways to access the media:
       <UL>
         <li>by using the play button on the web page (m4a), 
       or 
          <li>by translating it to mp3 via iTunes, which
       we are warned that the Chapter markers are then lost.
       </UL>
       <p>
   <li><b>Flash
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       <UL>
         <li><b>
                Terminology
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	 <UL>
	 In Flash <b>indexing</b> can be facilitated by <b>cue
	 points</b>.
	 Usually this is done in Flash video (FLV). In audio it is a bit harder.
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	 <p>
         <li><b>Cue Point Recipes</b> at 
	   <A href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/cue_points_audio.html"> 

	   http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/cue_points_audio.html
	   </A>
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	 <UL>
	   <li>The recipe above involves action scripting, and may require
	   <li>Flash CS3 and Flex Builder methods are shown with video
	   <li>mp3 Audio only indexing, discussion illustrates
	      scripting required.
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         <p><li><b>
	 <A
	 HREF="http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/flashmediaencoder/">
	   Flash Media Encoder (NA)
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	   </b><p>
	   <UL>
	   Captures Live to stream out : Not applicable for our
	   limited scope above,
	   but mentioned for future reference.
	   </UL>
         
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         <li><b>Final Cut Pro</b><p>
       <p>
       <UL>
   <li><b>Final Cut Pro ->Quicktime->iTunes &ne iPod</b>
         <p>
	 <UL>
         <b>
	 <A
	 HREF="http://www.studiodaily.com/studiomonthly/tutorials/howtutorials/6524.html">
	  Tutorial Video
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	 </UL>
	 The tutorial illustrates  how chapter markers placed in 
	 final cut pro can be exported as Quicktime, and visible
	 in iTunes, however, they would not be visible in iPod
	 according to the speaker.
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	   <li><b>Non Video for Audio</b>
	   <br>
	   Although Final Cut Pro is primarily a video editing package,
	   It is conceivable that Associated Audio could be chapter marked,
	   in a blank movie for the duration of the audio cast.
	   <p>
	   <li>
	   <b>Audio Overkill ?</b>
	   <br>
	   For audio only this may be overkill. For shops that
	   already have
	   final cut, this could be very flexible as chapter titles could be
	   placed for the duration of each chapter. This may be relatively easy 
	   with this package, while adding a pinch of simple  graphic sparkle.
         
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       <p>
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   <li><b>Adobe Premier Pro</b>
        <p>
	Like "Final Cut Pro" primarily a video editor, a passage describes that "premiere"
	<b>Sequence markers</b> in clips exported from Adobe
	Premiere Pro, appear as cue points in Adobe Flash
	projects, if they contain text in their Chapter
	fields"
   <A
   Href="http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/3.0/help.html?content=WS9390BED7-9466-46ea-A0EA-3240F1AFC36C.html">
   Full Passage
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   <li><b>Adobe Creative Suite (CS3) aside </b>
        <p>
	This is actually a suite of many programs or packages.
        <p>
	One will find that chapter markers
	do port from one CS3 package to the next
	in addition to the Adobe Premier Pro example above.
       
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