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First Steps

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Your First Podcast Project

Introduction
Welcome to this First Steps with WaveLab Cast guide, which we have created so that you can start working on your first podcast right away. It introduces you to the most important features of WaveLab Cast and takes you through all the basic workflows.
Tour of the User Interface
Your First Podcast Project
- Creating an Audio Montage
  The easiest way to get started with a podcast in WaveLab Cast is to create an audio montage.
- Saving an Audio Montage
  Now that you have created an audio montage, you can save it.
- Setting up Your System
  Before you can start recording and editing your podcast project, you need to ensure that WaveLab Cast can access your microphone, so that you can record content, and your speakers or headphones, so that you can listen to your audio files.
- Importing Audio Files
  In just a few simple steps, you can fill your audio montage with the different audio files that make up your podcast and arrange them on the corresponding tracks.
- Recording in WaveLab Cast
  You can record your main content and any voice-overs; that is, your own voice and contributions by any additional hosts, guests, or interviewees, in WaveLab Cast.
- Listening to the Tracks in Your Podcast
  You can listen to either all the tracks in your podcast at once, or select individual tracks.
- Moving, Duplicating, and Deleting Clips
  In WaveLab Cast, you can easily move, copy, and delete clips in your audio montage.
- Fading Clips in Your Audio Montage
  You can apply fade-ins, fade-outs, and crossfades to clips.
- Trimming and Splitting Clips
  In WaveLab Cast, you can trim the clips in an audio montage and split them into smaller audio segments.
- Ducking Music to Your Voice-Over
  In parts of your podcast where spoken content is accompanied by music, you can use the ducking feature to attenuate the music so that the voice is in the foreground.
- Enhancing the Sound of Your Podcast
  The Track Inspector section in WaveLab Cast is home to a number of effects that enable you to optimize the sound of your podcast, and enhance the listening experience for your audience.
- Exporting Your Podcast
  To publish your podcast, you need to specify an output format and render the podcast. This turns the audio montage into an audio file that you can upload to a podcast host service.
- Setting the Loudness of Your Podcast
  As most podcast host services ask you to comply with specific loudness requirements, you can set the loudness of your audio file after rendering your podcast.
- Uploading Your Podcast to a Host Service
- Creating RSS Feeds
  Podcasts are distributed via RSS (Rich Site Summary), a standard for distributing news and other information via the internet. In WaveLab Cast, an RSS Feed is a text file that contains information about podcast episodes, which you can enter via the RSS Feed Editor.
- Adding and Managing Podcast Episodes
  The RSS Feed Editor in WaveLab Cast allows you to add and manage multiple episodes of your podcast, and gives you control over their publication dates and the information you want to share about them.
- Adding Information about Podcast Episodes
  The more information you provide about your podcast, the easier it is for potential listeners to find it, and the more likely it is that your podcast matches their needs, interests, and expectations so that they subscribe to it.
- Uploading Episodes to an FTP Server
  To publish episodes of your podcast, you must upload them to an FTP server.
Where to Go From Here
We hope that you have now successfully created your first podcast and are satisfied with the result, and that you have enjoyed working with WaveLab Cast.

Your First Podcast Project

For the purpose of introducing you to podcast creation with WaveLab Cast, our goal is to create a podcast with a host (probably you), music, and some sound effects.

Tour of the User Interface Creating an Audio Montage

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