How to cut an MP3's length

Here are some basic steps to shorten an MP3 and get it ready for Soundslides.

Part 1 - Editing for length:

1. Open the application Soundtrack Pro
2. Open the MP3 file you want to edit
3. You will see visual representations of the stereo tracks.  Using the cursor, the play button and repeated efforts, find the selection you want to keep and make a note of when it starts and how long it lasts. (Note: If you are familiar with "marks" in Final Cut Pro, there may be similar functionality here. Feel free to try it that way.)
4. Highlight by dragging your cursor through the tracks, and delete sections of the song until you are left with only what you want.
5. If you want to fade in or fade out, highlight sections of the beginning and end, and go to the "Process" menu, an sselect fade in or fade out.
6. Save the file  to a place you can access it again, making sure to save it as a "WAVE" file.

Part 2 - Converting back to MP3 (Note: You can do this in iTunes or do it as explained below)

1. Open the application "Switch"
2. Click "add file" and find your file you edited for length
3. Click check box "Output to same folder as source files"
4. Make sure your output format is set to MP3. Click Encoder options and make sure the "Bitrate" is set to 128.
5. Click Convert

You should now have your edited audio file as an MP3 in the same folder where your edited wave file was.  You can import the new MP3 file into Soundslides.

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Where you around for the escapades? Do you feel that Stony Brook failed you in some way? SPEAK UP and SPEAK OUT, comment.

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• Bill Lind covers Stony Brook's emergency alert system.

• Sarah Asselta's coverage of student's personal accounts of the event and their reactions to it.

• Jennifer Gustavson's gathering of campus broadcast coverage,plus her cheesy humor - get it, its pizza.

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It's good
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I see this week as a working week in the lab, with a short time at the beginning of Monday for business and a short demo of Soundslides.

Here are the open items you should be working on.

• Breaking news "Gunman" story wrap-up.  This blog should have three index entries - one from each news team - that indexes all the stories, interactivity and multimedia.  Those indexes should have "labels" for each member of the news team. One member of each team should email the team's index entry URL to Prof. Liss at dliss.nj@gmail.com address.  These will be evaluated as part of the in-class exercise portion of your course work. 
• Soundslides practice and Soundslides assignment - you should be getting into this assignment for real by Wednesday, bringing in your audio files and images. For the practice exercise, you may use the images in the "westminster" folder in our class's section of the journalism drive.  There is now a working 1:30 minute MP3 file in the MP3 folder called "edited Smiling face.mp3"
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