Questions about: recording voice.

[docbob]

I would like to record a person narrating a story, and burn it on a audio CD.
The recording is about 60 minutes in length.
The audio recording should be able to be played by most CD players.
Which recording format should I use? (mp3, wav, other?)
Do I need to burn the session into smaller segments, or can I burn a 60 minute session?

Thanks for your help.

 

[treymonfauntre]

I would like to record a person narrating a story, and burn it on a audio CD.
The recording is about 60 minutes in length.
The audio recording should be able to be played by most CD players.
Which recording format should I use? (mp3, wav, other?)
Do I need to burn the session into smaller segments, or can I burn a 60 minute session?

Thanks for your help.

60 minutes will fit onto an audio cd. save it as a 16 bit wav.

 

[rayc]

Treymonfauntre is right. You'll easily fit 60 mins of 16 bit wave file onto a CDR. If it's a narration you might find is sensible to edit it into segments so that if interrupted during playback you can jump to the nearest "track" to restart etc.
Most wave editing progs will help you do that esp waverepair which will even locate breaks in the narration that might make good track points.
Cheers
rayC

 

[gecko zzed]

any decent pc recording program will do the job just fine.

I would appraoc this in either of two ways:

1 record the narration in a single session, so that you end up with a 60 minute-long wave file, then using Wavelab or similar, break it up into natural segments; or

2 record the narration in convenient chunks, each being saved as a separate WAV file.

In both cases you can burn to a CD which will play on any player (recognising, though, that burnt CDs can be problematic in some players).

 

[peritus]

I'm on a big Audacity (wav recording/editing) kick right now.. (It's free !)

You should make sure that the drive you are recording to has enough temp and saving space for that large file (Around 600mb)....

 

[docbob]

Thank you all for your replies.

Docbob