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10 tools for adding sound and images to your podcasts, videocasts, and other creative efforts
I’m taking part in something called NaPodPoMo — or National Podcast Posting Month — in November. The goal is to post 30 episodes of a podcast in 30 days. I love how it’s creator, Jennifer Navarrete invites experimentation and playfulness in this endeavor. She encourages you to try something you’ve not done before. She is also generous in sharing tools, tips, and strategies for making audio stories.
The story we tell in our podcasts is the most important part of any episode. We can enhance that story with well chosen audio for intros, outtros, backgrounds, and transitions between segments. Today, I’m sharing several tools for adding music and non-voice sounds to your podcasts. Some of these are free and some have subscription options. I think they all at least have a free trial. A couple also include video and visuals that you can also use on YouTube and in other picture and video based story telling.
Tool 1 — Anchor.fm
Anchor.fm is an “all in one” podcasting tool that works on web and on your mobile device (phone or tablet). Anchor allows both audio and video podcasting, although currently only supports editing audio podcasts on the platform so you can’t really use anchor’s built in audio tools for your videocast.
