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FIRST YOU NEED TO CHECK OUT THE MICRO SD CARD FROM THE PROCTOR!!

You will need your UTID to do this and will need to leave it with the proctor until you are finished with the card.

Turn on the RODECASTER if it isn't already

Put the card in the RODECASTER in the small MicroSD slot

If it is a new card it'll ask you to format it click YES

There are two microphones already setup just put on the headphones for one or two

Next set the sound input to the computer.

Go the the Apple in the upper right hand corner and choose >System Preferences

Choose >Sound

Go to the Output Tab and make sure it is set to RODECaster Pro Stereo USB

Go to the Input Tab

Choose the RODECaster Pro Stereo USB

Turn up the sliders on the board and talk into the mic

Set the levels watching the meters so you set a good level

You can adjust headphone volume with these knobs

Click on the Green REC button to start recording to the SD card

When recording the button will be RED

This icon is how much time you have left to record on the card

In this example there is 8 hours and 46 minutes left on the card

Conduct the narration, interview or podcast and when finished press REC button to stop recording

To hear what you did press the Settings Icon

Click on Podcasts

You can click on the top left and right arrows to navigate through the podcasts and click on the green play button to play the selection

Click the Home Button to exit this menu.

When you are finished you need to get the files off the SD card. First eject it from the RODECASTER

With your fingertip press the card in slightly so it pops out of the slot.

Mount it into the card reader under the mac

It will show up on the desktop titled RODECASTER

The .Wav files are in the folder called PODCASTS

The .wav files are useful as is but if you want to extract only the stereo mix you need to continue to the next steps

Open RODECaster Pro software in the Applications folder

When it launches it will show you the podcasts in a list

Find your podcast

Title it and choose a custom color and then click on Save

Choose a place to save it and click Open

The files save with all the different mics and channels that may or may not have audio on them.

If you want the full mix then choose Stereo Mix.wav

You can check the mix in quicktime player or VLC

On the mac computer.

Edit it if you need or use the file as is.

To monitor the audio of the file you are going to have to turn up the computer input on the RODECASTER and that is the USB channel

Adding Sound effects

All these buttons are sound effects

To play the sound effect just bring up the fader shown here and press the colored button

We have some things loaded but you can change it

To change the effect or to see what is loaded on all of them open the RodeCaster Pro software again

Go to the sounds tab and you can see what is loaded

To add a different effect download the audio file or find it on our stock server and drag it over to the colored button

The software will convert the file

Then you can name it and change the color if you want