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I am always following podcasts published by English-language radio stations in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore. Good Urban Days, a Taiwanese Mandarin podcast programme discussing about the life in Kaohsiung, is also my favourite recently. I know I am not that hardworking to work on recordings everyday. A brief thought about giving it a try did appear though.
In addition to YouTube talk shows that have been popular for many years, recording podcast has become a trendy thing to do in Taiwan. Content creators have to work round the clock to stand out from so many YouTube programmes. It is never easy.
How about recording podcast, since video recordings are so troublesome? Sorry, mate. If you are to record and publish podcast now, you will still have to go through stiff competition before outperforming other programmes. Recording podcast was what I considered last year. But the working procedures are still not as simple as blogging. In other words, it is better to not think about troublesome things.
Content creators who are keen to record video / audio clips might need to learn subtitling and adding some video effects. Video editing is also must so that you can omit your mistakes and connect the correct content. Let’s pick a topic. Say, football. If you are going to talk and record about your comments on football, the effort you put in is easily equivalent to a full-time job.
Another problem is that you need to make sure your environment is quiet enough for recordings. I personally prefer recording at my friend’s studio, for I always wish to imitate recording style in a studio setting as Hong Kong online talk shows do. But the Hongkongers have come to the stage where content creators can record their contents at home. It seems like it is better for me to keep on writing, for I am not that hardworking to record audio contents everyday.
我常常聽澳洲和星馬的英文電台錄製的播客(podcast)節目，最近也開始聽專門討論高雄的華語節目《城市好過日》。我自問沒有能力一直這麼努力錄音做節目，但也想過要玩一玩自媒體節目。
除了流行多時的優管網站的清談節目，臺灣更是吹起一股播客風潮。內容創作者要在優管種類繁多的影音節目中殺出重圍，其實是非常困難的事。
若嫌錄影麻煩，可能玩錄音比較容易冒出頭？不好意思，現在若投入純音檔的行列，亦必須經過一番廝殺，才能在一眾節目中脫穎而出。我曾經想過錄製播客節目，但是其工作程序還是沒有部落格創作那麼方便，所以瑣碎事還是不要想太多比較好。
若有志於錄製節目，製作者必須擅長錄音／錄影，可能還需要寫字幕加上影片效果，剪接更是少不了，以便將說錯的部份剪輯後再連接正確的部份。隨便拿一個主題來玩玩，例如每天談足球，投入的心力隨時等同於一份全職工作。
另一個問題則是錄音的環境是否安靜得沒有雜音，我個人還是喜歡在朋友的錄音室錄音，常常幻想香港網台的錄音室錄音模式，但人家已經發展到在家裡自己錄音也能發表偉論了。我無力一直錄音，還是乖乖寫字比較實在。