photocasts?

[andiesmith]

does anyone know how to create a podcast for photos? i have a mac...with garageband, and iphoto, and iweb. but i have no idea how to do it! Any help or a point in the right direction would be great! thanks!

[jamiewallace]

A "photocast" is essentially just a blog that posts a photo instead of words in the blog post. Just like a podcast is a blog that posts mp3's instead of words.

You could use your typepad account for this, or blogger, or any other blogging platform. The challenge (as it is with any website) is to make it look like what you want.

[andiesmith]

i want to create a slideshow of photos from a shoot, and upload them to itunes. I've seens some wedding photgs do this...and its pretty cool!

[jamiewallace]

Looks like you need a .Mac Account (Apple's Webhosting) and that results can be only viewed in iPhoto or someone who gets RSS. I'd put that at maybe 15% of the population.

http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/fe...tocasting.html

[andiesmith]

mmmm....i have a .mac account. i think I'm going to have to figure it out trial and error...bc i have seens some on itunes you can view through itunes.

[jamiewallace]

You saw this? http://www.apple.com/dotmac/#tourphotocast

Can't find any mention of people doing it through iTunes.

[andiesmith]

yeah i saw it...i can't find it either...so thats when i thought to ask here...I guess I'm going to have to play with garage band

[Dobick]

I think what you are looking for is quicktime pro version or you could use iMovie. If you are wanting to make a slideshow that you can then add to your ipod, you would just need to save it at a size and format that the ipod can view. In my limited experience with iMovie, I remember it being easy to use, and not so hard to save in different formats, but really ran like a dog on my older laptop.

Good luck and have fun

[laanba]

Andie you should go look in Apple Discussions. I go there for most of my Apple questions and it is rarely lets me down.

http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

[bbailey]

I'm not an expert in this, so take it with a grain of salt. A photocast is the same thing essentially as a videocast since the formats are usually the same. What makes it a "cast" is that the content includes RSS enclosures that allow readers to subscribe to the content, like in the iTunes directory or Odeo, etc. This can be achieved by posting the content to a blog that has the proper RSS feed.

This page has some simple info regarding the process for creating video on a Mac. You can probably just replace the video creation process with how you create your slideshow and then process it in the format you want. The link above mentions .m4v, .mp4 or .mov video file enclosures.

Step 9 includes a link on how to add the content to the iTunes podcast directory.

Note though that iTunes doesn't provide the bandwidth or the hosting - just the feed, so if you get a lot of subscribers it may be expensive. Third party content hosting like libsyn provide affordable bandwidth for content.

Hope this makes sense, as I'm just kinda messing with it myself.

Other link that may help:
http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=9314&c=33

[andiesmith]

thank you all. I will have to look at all of this later this morning!