How to Record from Skype using a Mac and WireTap Studio

Mac 20 Questions Quick Tip 8-Recording a Skype Interview to put in AmadeusPro Dave: What I’m just going to do today is to show you how to record a Skype Interview. As you can see I have already got Wiretap Studio started and I will stick to this so that I can record the line in which is where my microphone is connected or intern microphone if I wanted to. So that’s the line in charge of that and then the other thing is record from Skype. So it’s going to be as simple as that so I could some other things that I have going as well. I with those probably I could record in directly from that. Tony let’s just bring in to its times which is so bit of a shame that I just able to record three channels so that it might be has something going with Skype and maybe also with something else coming as well maybe you want to have some background music playing while he was doing it but that really just mattered so much because you can have it later. Although it would perhaps good if you could it so that you could record in from perhaps a different microphone at the same time if we are going to get a call started with Michael Smith. And the first thing to do is to click on record. Hello Michael. Michael: Hi Dave. Dave: You shined back there, you used the internal microphone? Michael: Yeah it’s what I always use. Dave: You can have to get yourself an external microphone but I hadn’t had a lot better it will. Michael: I have just a microphone, I mix the board. Dave: Alright then but anyway that was just a quick recording I need to make the recording a stream cast at the moment so that’s great thanks very much and we’ll talk on that what’s your first day then. Michael: Okay, thanks Dave. Dave: Alright thanks a lot and good morning. Now we’ve hung up on that one this is still recording, still it can’t still go in there. One of the things that you will notice really is that it tells you what sort of a recording that you are making so the moments is doing AIFF stereo 44.1 kilohertz and 32 bits, you can’t change that in the settings. This bit over here where it’s trying to go up is telling us he size of the file so the moment is 35 megabytes 36.2 megabytes and is growing so we go there. So that’s what you need to do, let’s click on stomp and the next thing that happens is for it to start building up this thing because it’s fairly critical. So we’ve got two sides of the conversation here, if I change this one over here that one is I think my side of conversation so if I want to work and clear that ads all together and just listen to this other one over here we will just record that one. Recording Mike: Hi Dave. Dave: See again that was what I was saying that has been the other side of the conversation and this side over here is my side of conversation. Recording Dave: You shone back there, use the internal microphone. Recording Mike: Yeah that’s what I always notice. Dave: So you can hear that taking the alternatives down to zero, there’s still a little bit coming through on that one. Maybe that’s just not so much we can is going through to two separate channels so we will not worry about that. So what I tell you when I’m working this here I bring myself so it is right about the same sort of height so that means that same sort of volume is my input so there we go that’s the peg sort of right about same height and I click on file and save. Okay, I saved it. It’s saved as the built in input recording. So if I just cleared that a moment so what I’m going to do next I’m just gong to change that to Michael. So now I have this saved Wiretap studio library. I what I even have to do next is to be able to get in to AmadeusPro so what I like to do with this is I go with a double click and save a lots of those recording to folder. I could save the folder as well I think that just saves and it comes in as an INF file if it will do the two things and will just see what happens to this. I’m going to save it into the web casting file down here. Let’s just click on open, so that saved that there. And then I’m going to do some reduce save. I lost this recording to folder and going there as microtest so that before there’s a previous when you say before microtest.aiff and save that so what I need to do now is to get those working and well go to finder and go to podcasting and said what happens when we put in this microtest aiff into drag that and drop it in and as you can see what has happened here is that it has put everything all on to one single track. Let’s just get rid of the track for a moment. Instead we go everything and set it on one track so I can’t split that up into two separate areas and unfortunately I can’t split it or if I do split, split it up but both splits the same. So that is why I don’t use the save to folder option and let’s get rid of that and this time we’re going to go to this one here microtest.mov. What we’re going to do, we’re going to take this. And drag it and drop it in there. Okay, so now you see what guys we’ve got microtestsideone.mov and microtestsidetwo.mov. What we need to do is to go back to our applications again that’s to move your tools and this time do convert to AIFF, that’s what I’m, preferred to use. What I want to do is strap those two things there track them and drop them into that until there. So that’s side one just being completed and that is for they told to convert that to AIFFs row for side two. There we go we now have two sides of the conversation and two set of files. And then what we’re going to do is we’re going to is just open with AmadeusPro convert to mono is something better than mono and then record. Hello Michael. Michael: Hi Dave. Dave: You sound bad there, use the internal microphone. Okay, so there’s the conversation, so I can label that if I want to. Let’s call that David and let’s bring the other side to come safe into it as well so I grab this bit here and now I want to just drag in and drop it so there we go. I brought that in and we’re going to convert that to mono as well. And there you go you can see that’s why I’ve got them both into Amadeus and now I can end HI to the conversation separately. Michael: Yeah it’s what I always use. Dave: You can have to get yourself an external microphone because I haven’t had a lot better it will. Michael: And see this here, we’ve got a good section here, we’ve got some noise, so what I’m going to do with that is I’m going to go to effects an de-noise to sample the noise and I’m going to select all and go to effects and go to suppress noise. And that suppressed all the noise, that is what you can see. Another thing that we could do to clean up the sand is that we can take this section here for instance and let’s put some markers in there. So basically what I’m doing is I’m going to generate silence in that area there. Effects and generates silence so we are going to do that for direction and selection and then click on okay so that has taken the noise actually, that track which is just coming through. Michael: I have— that’s preventive mixer board so there you go that’s what you are saying is right now. I think it was better than I did before.