Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Using an iPhone for Broadcast-quality Interviews

by Alisha Edgelow



First of all download the italk application to the iphone.


Then make sure before recording to go to settings and make sure airplane mode is on so no calls can interrupt.


Then also make sure in settings to go to General, then Auto-lock and set it to Never, this will ensure the screen will not disappear off the italk application when it is in use.


You can use your iPhone microphone to record.

The recording is very simple: you just type in the name of your recording and press the big red circular record button; as it's recording the button turns green and there is a gauge at the bottom that shows your levels. To stop recording, you just press the green button; and you can press it again if you decide to continue recording, or, press stop to save your recording.

To get ready to move your recording to a computer for editing, google isync, and download the isync application to your mac (PC users, shame on you, I can't help there).


Then when you are ready to get your interview just plug your iphone into your mac *make sure you have your phone set to the same Wi-Fi connection as your computer and also make sure you have the italk application open on your phone.*


Isync will find your recordings and then you can just drag and drop what you want onto your desktop, or double click and it will go straight to your itunes library.

Have a great day :)

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