Comments on: Podcast Producer: The Little-Known Leopard Application

By: Jayson Brinkler

Jayson Brinkler — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:47:40 +0000

I have just looked in utilities and saw podcast capture.

By: John

John — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:00:50 +0000

The file option is intended for PDF’s
This would suit organisations that update manuals or specifications regularly

By: metaprinter

metaprinter — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:47:40 +0000

Dumb this down for me guys.

If i want to use podcast producer i need to buy os x server (software) and install it on an intel mac i have laying around to create the end product,(a podcast) which i can then upload to my webfaction server and it will function normally for everyone visiting my site as a podcast, quicktime movie, or however else i designate it to function.

Is this right?

By: Podcast Producer « Jeffrey Daniel Frey’s Blog

Podcast Producer « Jeffrey Daniel Frey’s Blog — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:44:44 +0000

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By: pcaster

pcaster — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:54:20 +0000

The elevator pitch for Podcast Producer is this:

The server provides a centralized place to manage both remote recording agents and workflows for processing content.

The Podcast Capture.app is used on a Mac OS X client machine to contact the server. It can either submit content that is captured locally or direct a remote recording agent to capture content.

Whether local or remote capture is involved, the captured content is uploaded to the server and a workflow is run to process the content.

The workflows are actually executed on an Xgrid cluster that sits behind the Podcast Producer server.

Since the workflow definitions are server-based, they can do any manipulation to the content that can be run on an Xgrid cluster, and publish to any destination that is available to that Xgrid cluster.

By: pcaster

pcaster — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:45:48 +0000

Apple now has a discussion forum for Podcast Producer here.

By: Jussi

Jussi — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:56:34 +0000

Podcast Producer is a service that runs on mac os x 10.5 server. Podcast Capture is a program on Mac os x 10.5 client versions that connects to a Podcast Producer server.

Neither does anything without the other.

Podcast Producer takes the media from podcast capture, uses Xgrid to process it into several different formats, finally posting it to the server in the required way (apple-tv, itunes, itunesu, blog, etc.).

And the file-option on podcast capture is there to enable users to upload mediafiles they have created elsewhere, like in professional programs or on their windows machines.

By: Jussi

Jussi — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:55:17 +0000

Podcast Producer is a service that runs on mac os x 10.5 server. Podcast Capture is a program on Mac os x 10.5 client versions that connects to a Podcast Producer server.

Neither does anything without the other.

By: Sean Alcorn

Sean Alcorn — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:45:39 +0000

PodCast Producer is in /etc/podcastproducer in the client version of Leopard, but in the Utilities folder there is an Application called “PodCast Capture”

When you run it, it asks you to connect to a server running PodCast Producer

By: reallypod

reallypod — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:00:07 +0000

The “file” icon is where you can import a quicktime based file from another audio or video editing application, for example , final cut pro , adobe premiere pro, etc. This applies when you have an audio/video production more advanced than simply point the camera/microphone and press ‘record’.

Also, the ‘Podcast Producer’ simply automates the encoding and upload to server process. Notice that you have to have an apple server I think on the other end. I dont know how or if it can communicate with non-apple hardware and software. Comments from others?

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:09:02 +0000

Since podcasting technology (RSS feeds with the ability to include enclosures) was first introduced, I’ve wondered when application and game deveolopers would begin using this method of distribution. It makes perfect sense to include applications in RSS feeds and call them “podcasts”. For example, imagine an iPod game publisher — or several developers, marketing their wares as a group — putting out “podcasts” of their latest releases.

By: TC

TC — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:13:11 +0000

Yep, Apple have been showing our college this. There is a client app to produce content in the classroom, and a server side app that crunches the data and publishes in a blog, etc.

Almost v cool, but would be better if there wa sa windows client app too. It looks like you can still create the content in Windows using another app, and upload the content to the server for delivery though.

By: Marck

Marck — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:21:34 +0000

Okay, now. I was watching the Leopard WWDC07 unvieling, and when Steve Jobs was showing the Utilities folder, I saw an icon that resembled that of Podcast Producer. I don’t know if that was what the icon was for, but it would be great. I need a program like this, and I do not want to buy a 10-User Server OS just for it.

By: alan

alan — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:31:58 +0000

Both Leo and It Just Works has it correct. There is a client version and a server version. With the server version, certain scripts can run at set time periods for different computers.

This was designed more for educational use so that teachers could walk into a room, log on a computer, then enable the recording. From there, the server software can save the file to where it needs to go, then convert it into different formats, and/or upload it to iTunes U (or other website). It’s really easy to set up and really easy to use… especially on the client side where limited technical knowledge is necessary.

By: John Pastor

John Pastor — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:41:45 +0000

I do believe it is in the non-server version. When Steve was demoing Cover Flow in Finder, he stopped right before the icon appeared.

By: It Just Works

It Just Works — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:32:52 +0000

Right. It’s more for people who are already producing content than it is for a single person’s home use.

Think iTunes U…

Picture it. A prof walks into a classroom and presses record on a firewire camera in the back room and proceeds to give the lecture. When class is over, press stop and walks out of the room. Then automatically in the background, the audio and video are packaged up, ripped up and distributed for the appropriate class and professor to a podcast server. Because it’s distributed over dozens of machines, by the time the students walk back to the dorms, they can load the class they were just at on their ipods… and the prof only had to know how to press record….

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:46:14 +0000

I think this would allow organizations to create and distribute their own podcasts using OS X Server. Say you were a large company or academic institution that wanted to start offering podcasts to employees or customers… this would allow you to do it.

On the Leopard client side, there is probably an application that hooks into Podcast Producer that actually does the audio/video capture and content-creation.