Freedom Forum Diversity Institute

Nashville, Tennessee | June 4-5, 2007

Introduction to Multimedia Journalism Skills

Audio Gathering and Editing

Soundslides

Download the fully functional demo version free: Soundslides

Works on either Windows or Mac. You can learn to use this program and even publish audio slideshows without paying for it, but you should appreciate that Joe Weiss quit his day job at the Raleigh News & Observer to support and enhance this software full-time. If you start using it regularly, Joe deserves to get paid.

Here is all that you need to make an audio slideshow:

  1. The Soundslides software.
  2. One edited, final MP3 file.
  3. Your photos, already cropped and toned, saved in the JPG file format. Copy them into a folder before you begin, and make sure the JPGs for this slideshow are the only JPGs in that folder.

Read Tom Priddy's tutorial for a great overview of how a professional photojournalist works with Soundslides in his everyday job (used with Tom's permission). Tom recommends Nhat Meyer's article about getting great audio, at SportsShooter.com. Publishing Basics for Soundslides are online, in the Help files.

Soundslides Examples

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When you're ready, start here and advance to here.

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