I purchased a 1000,00 ZAR, which is only 71,55 USD Astro A10 Gaming headset with a mic for my last two videos and that was worse quality than my Samsung S8+ prepackaged earpieces. The most disappointing of all was the built in microphone on the MacBook Pro 2014 and MacBook Pro 2011 and MacMini 2011, I tried them, and all were terrible. My Mic should be here soon though so just waiting for that before i produce more bad audio.
Well done @Hyperbytes !
Looking good! I do like your narration - can’t detect that you got a cold
As for the site - maybe add more action buttons on the home - to get started directly not only via the menu.
Also you might need links on the logo for home and on the About Wappler.
Other that that - great start! Keep it up!
Done a quick tidy up @George and added the missing bits, have a new dynamic replacement under development.
Full re-make of Wappler Unwrapped released. Now fully dynamic and includes 3rd party content (including @psweb’s great content and some youtube content. Should be back to making videos from tomorrow.
Hi Brian,
The remake looks better indeed. Good work!
Its a bit confusing from the home page whereever you are linking to your basic videos or to Paul’s full CMS site building course.
Also maybe you should check with @psweb - if this kind of video inclusion is all fine - because you are missing a bit the linking of his site and his backstory. Maybe it will be better instead of including them to link to learnwappler site?
Maybe @ben as learning master can provide some feedback as well
@Hyperbytes I am happy either way you want to link to my pages of text & video to be honest, I think the idea of having all the resources available from a single site is a good idea as we had discussed previously, and on my site I will do something similar. In the end of the day if both sites have all the training resources available then the end user has everything at their fingertips.
I do not think the linking is confusing as to where each training set is sourced in my opinion. Let’s see what the rest of the community thinks and see if @ben and @George have some added feedback.
Just so everyone knows, myself and @psweb work and talk together as a team, it’s not competition, it’s collaboration
Couldn’t have said it better, @Hyperbytes.
Nothing like common interests and common goals to make people into a community.
I just got a message right this instant, my mic is on a courier and making its way to my doorstep, before 5pm SA time today. Thank you Wappler, thank you @George. Super excited to start tutorials without 2 hour long audio cleaning that generally only produces worse results than the original.
Still won’t beat my £8.44 headset from eBay Looking forward to your next instalment, really enjoying them and more importantly learning from them!
Haha, if it doesn’t get better than all mics before then I will make the switch to PC, haha. Then i would loose all faith in Mac. Of course i think it’s the computer and not just me… lol
If you have any old PCs you can access then rebuild one, running Wappler on Linux is pretty cool
Actually you can run Linux in a Virtual Machine on Windows 10 - runs pretty well and is nice for testing:
https://blog.couchbase.com/hyper-v-run-ubuntu-linux-windows/
I used to be in IT so my home is like a graveyard of old hardware and some fairly current too so its quite easy for me to test. Luckily most of the hardware I never even purchased. Clients come here with their new amazing hardware and their old, ask me to transfer everything across and then say, do you want this old thing Paul, I have no need for it anymore. Haha, so I score free older hardware quite often. 90% of the time if you swap out the HDD with an SSD that old hardware runs almost as fast as their new stuff.
I have 4 macs, 2011 MacBook Pro, 2014 MacBook Pro, 2011 MacMini, 2010 Mac Pro.
I must have about 10 old PC’s laying around and 2 fairly decent new ones for my daughters and 3 have been turned into OSX86 Hackintoshes just because I like to fiddle.
The only time i ever played with Linux funnily enough was installing a strange version to a PlayStation3.
And lastly I have an old Spark20 running Solaris on the Unix platform, with a Micropollis drive.
Point being that between all this I will find a way to make the Audio quality better, where theres a will theres a way.
Just finished video 10 with my new Wappler Mic and damn it is like day and night, busy in post production with it now so you will all get a link to it pretty soon.
Thanks again to Wappler, @George and of course the man who started it all @mrbdrm
psweb, I just use Audition or Audacity to record audio. Both are light weight enough that I can run on my Macbook Pro which is a 2013 model, or a laptop which is a 2012 model. I have the Yeti and barely get any noise at all. The mic you got performs just as well. If you get a hum or static, I would use a powered USB and make sure none of the wires are touching. You might know all this already, but I didn’t.
I use ScreenFlow for the video and audio recording, then right at the end i export the audio out into Audacity and try sort out audio, however with this new mic, i did not have to do anything additional, recorded Audio and Video directly in ScreenFlow and it was perfect first time.
Only slight issue I have is that because i generally do my recordings at like midnight, my entire household is sleeping so I have to be very quiet, so the gain control on the mic was awesome but i still had the set the volume a little higher in the application.
yes maybe @psweb should start a podcast he loves to talk anyway - why not record all the time!
Haha, I do love to talk, lol, one day when I am rich and have more time on my hands I will certainly do just that, Radio Wappler sounds like a winner!!
And I thought nobody knew that I liked to talk