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Learn how to import audio into your Audacity project. Part 5 in our Learn Audacity series of free video tutorials.

Importing audio into your Audacity project is a great way to add some old fashion polish to your Audacity recordings and projects. For example, you may have a podcast which includes a professionally made introduction. You can easily import this file to create a new Audacity track. Importing audio is a great way to add sound effects, music, your previous recordings, and interviews (Skype would be great for this!).

During this Audacity video tutorial, we’ll show you how we imported a guitar loop using our original AIFF file. Next, we will import some audio from IDV. That will be a 2 step process which includes plugging in our camera first. We’ve used Windows Movie Maker for this example which demonstrates how flexible Audacity is when it comes to importing and using other file formats.

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Learn how to make Audacity recordings. A set of 10 free video Audacity tutorials.

The main reason why you’re checking out Audacity, and these Audacity tutorials, is so you can make an audio recording. Perhaps you’re going to use Audacity for your new podcast, or to interview someone. Regardless, the main reason why Audacity is popular is due its easy to use interface. I use it to make my bi-weekly podcast. I’ve considered other audio recording software, however, Audacity is very easy to use and any new user can make a recording within minutes.

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Tags: Audacity, Open Source, Podcasting, Video Tutorial by simon
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Learn how to use the Audacity Control Panel or interface - a set  of 10 free video Audacity tutorials.

During this second Audacity video tutorial, we’ll navigate through the Audacity Control Panel. Learning the Audacity interface will make it easier to understand the various buttons and menus. I’ll show you the Audacity File Menu, View Menu, Project Menu (a great way to import media), and Generate Menu. Under the Effects Menu we have a wide range of very cool and different effects, Analyze Menu for analyzing the audio, and the Help Menu, if you have any questions about how to use Audacity.

Also shown are various Audacity interaface buttons or controls. For example, buttons are for Copy, Paste, Trimming and Silencing. The Silencing button is an often overlooked feature in Audacity and it’s very useful: if you have a pop or something, click on silencing to eliminate the pop.

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Tags: Audacity, Free Stuff, Open Source, Podcasting, Video Tutorial by simon
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The Google Chrome browser has some nifty search secrets including the ability to create your own search keywords based on specific search topics and specific search engines. So, you can actually search using Yahoo search directly from the Google address bar, and use your own saved keyword query. A picture is worth a thousand words (cliche – I know) which is why I created a video explaining this Chrome browser search tricks.

Watch the  FREE Google Chrome video tutorial.

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Tags: Chrome, Google, Video Tutorial, Web Browsers by simon
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ReadyBoost is a new Windows feature that came with Windows Vista. You can utilized your spare portable storage to speed up Windows Vista. Use a SD  card, CompactFlash or USB drive with ReadyBoost -  your portable storage drive can be used for disk cache, which results in faster performance for Windows Vista.

Watch this video explaining how to use Windows Vista ReadyBoost

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