I’m sure somewhere some university or institution has mapped the brain to see which synapses fire under certain circumstances. I’d love to see exactly where I get that little jolt of joy when I’m discovering what new, powerful software can do. I’m betting that any geek worth his or her salt knows exactly what I’m talking about.
I got more than a few zaps of synaptic flaring today as part of a task I’ve taken on for WebAssist. While Mark Fletcher is nose-to-the-grindstone cranking out training content like the recently released SEO Starter Kit, I’m going back to my old stomping grounds of creating the feature tours that accompany our product releases. It’s been a while–my last ones were created with a beta of Captivate 2 and Captivate 4 was just released–so I had a good amount of catching up to do. I don’t want to steal Mark (our resident Captivate super-expert) Fletcher’s thunder and speak about that program’s coolness, so I’ll leave that to him.
However, part of the process involves recording a voice over which, unless you’re buried deep in a high-end sound-proof room often means unwanted background noise. Happily, Adobe SoundBooth is part of the Creative Suite Web Premium bundle. SoundBooth is largely marketing as a tool used to create audio for Flash projects, but man is it awesome for recording audio for voice overs! Even the process is way cool. For example, need to remove a background hum that pervades your clip? Just highlight the wave form of the hum itself, click Capture Noise Print under the Clean Up Audio section and then execute the Noise command. SoundBooth analyzes your audio and extracts any sound that matches the captured noise print. Awesome!
Know how Photoshop has a Healing brush for removing flaws in your bitmaps? SoundBooth has an equivalent feature for sound that can heal popping p’s or sibilant s’s. Zap! There’s goes that synaptic charge again. If you have a chance, be sure to check out SoundBooth.
What’s even more exciting is that we’re in a position at WebAssist to create software, solutions and training that give you the same thrill of discovery. There’s a meta-thrill that we get in the creation process. We’ve been working on some upcoming projects that are definitely going to give you a jolt–and we can’t wait to zap you.
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