The great potential for this feature is to provide people with a walking tour of Websites associated with whatever you are talking about. Many podcasts include show notes with links to all relevant sites mentioned throughout the course of the show, but how many listeners are actively clicking those links as they listen? While one of the great advantages of podcasting is portability, many people are listening to podcasts from their desktop, which means a Web browser is just a click away.
Embedding links to relevant subject matter as it's discussed pops a Web page at the point in a discussion when the Web site is referenced, offering a more immersive experience for the listener.
This is also a way to draw more attention to sponsors, by opening an associated Web page when the sponsor is mentioned during the podcast. To create a Windows Media enhanced podcast, you need an app with support for Windows Media script editing. Chapter marks are ideal if you want to provide an easy way for your listeners to skip to specific segments of your episodes.
To make this method effective, you must educate your audience that the options to skip segments exist. You will also need to explain which applications are supported and how to use them. A simple How to listen page on your podcast website and constant referencing of this page in your podcast should suffice.
Avoid using chapters as a way to make your content interactive during playback. Adding images and web links will not be effective due to the limited player support. Do not forget how most listeners consume audio podcasts, they are not watching the device while they listen to your podcast in most cases. Using chapter marks as a way to jump to specific segments of your podcast can be effective, but consider that if you are using these tools to split different types of audiences, you may be better served creating separate podcasts.
Remember to be realistic about how complex you want to make your podcast episodes. Though the listener will not care how much time you put into each episode, you may end up burning yourself out for a feature that does not provide a significant benefit to your listeners. You can no longer create enhanced podcasts with GarageBand. Apple discontinued chapter marks in GarageBand 10, released in October What are Chapters in a podcast? Enhanced podcasts are not ideal for images If you have images you wish to incorporate into your podcast you may want to consider creating a video podcast instead of an enhanced audio podcast.
Enhanced podcasts are not ideal for web links If you want to incorporate web links, you might be better off including such links within your podcast show notes.
Maybe some others have found a Windows tool that produces this format. FYI, Profcast also has a great tool to author and manage the feeds for all your podcast, regardless of where the media is developed. I think if you search for Profcast in iTunes, you will see some examples.
I don't represent them, I am just a happy user. Another example is the Maccast podcast. The other tools mentioned in this thread will of course work is you just need an audio or video podcast.
By the way, I use GarageBand a lot for my podcast, but found that all graphics are square aspect ratio. So before you bring slides in, you may want to add some black space to the top and bottom of the image to make the image square. Good luck. That is very similar to the process Apple shared on their web site and also painful! But it does show that it shouldn't be that hard for someone to develop a graphical front end!
But for those who can't sneek on to friends mac it us a solution. I should have the windows version of Profcast soon and will report back. If you don't need the smaller file size or intera five components then producing your podcast with Photostory or other windows tools works fine. I would strongly recommend PhotoStory. It easily merges audio and still photos. My students used it without any problems. Eventually you will become frustrated by the lack of flexibility of the program no video, limited editing options , but it sounds like it will do everything you need it to for the storybook project.
Here is an example from a group of my student's. Enhanced podcasts? I'm not a MAC person, but if I follow the discussion correctly, it seems that an enhanced podcast would take less space than a MovieMaker or PhotoStory production because instead of a continuous video picture of a given page, the picture is just in their one. If that is the case, why make a jpg of each page, and put them, as well as the audio into a powerpoint?
This may seem rather low tech and old fashioned, but Ithink it might accomplish what you are after. I want to create a similar project on Movie Maker but I've never created an enhanced podcast before. I have picutures of steps taken in a science experiment already in movie maker and want to add the audio.
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