Propaganda Reviewer's Comments
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End your silence and sound off with Propaganda. Our “TopTenREVIEWS Silver Award” winner is the easiest to use podcasting program available and it does everything.
This program’s interface is clean–cut and uncomplicated, yet supports storyboard editing, drag & drop arrangement of audio files and quick right-click edits. We really could not think of a way to make this software easier to use and it receives four stars for ease of use.
Propaganda can pull audio from almost any source and can export to any file location or straight to an iPod or other portable device. It can also help you create RSS feeds, ID3 and iTunes tags. Even though this is the simplest podcasting software to use, it missed the gold position, because Podcast Station includes more editing tools and filters.
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Recording/ Importing:
With this program you can easily import and record audio files from most sources. You can even record from your sound card or VoIP conversations. Propaganda can also record from a line in or aux supply or pull audio from a CD. The only thing this program does not do is pull audio from a video file, but you could record the audio from your sound card while playing the video clip if you need an audio sample from a video file.
Editing:
This is not Propagandas strongest area. Nevertheless, the editing features it does include are remarkably easy to use.
This program has the basics, like cropping, mixing and track splitting and unlike many programs it has a “snap to beat” tool. All edits are easy to execute, simply import your audio clips to the library, drag selected clips to the play list and then move them around as you please in the storyboard. The storyboard also displays a wave form view and a VU meter.
Propaganda has the best user interface we have seen; it has a mouse scroll zoom, volume sliders and useful right–click tools, like the ability to insert a variety of markers or reverse. We are not sure how many tracks you can display, but we put over 20 into our storyboard and all were clearly tagged and easy to move around.
Publishing:
To publish with this program you simply click the publish button and choose to either upload it to their podcast host or to your own. After choosing your host, you just add your titles, descriptions, select the bitrate and choose your website and ftp server, it’s as easy as that. Of course, after you enter in your host and ftp information the first time it can do it automatically for subsequent posts.
In terms of formats, it can publish in wma, mp3 and wav and can generate xml and html files. This program however does not support video files.
Ease of Use:
Beginning podcasters will love this program; since it is so easy to use, seasoned podcasters will enjoy the well–organized user interface. The more we worked with this software, the more we enjoyed this program, everything is easy to figure out and logically arranged. You can even edit each track individually from the storyboard or drag & drop the segments anywhere you want.
MixMeister Technology offers a free demo on the Propaganda site that you can try; we think once you try this program you will appreciate the simplicity and straightforwardness of this software.
Help/Support:
This program has a helpful user guide and tutorials; online MixMeister posts FAQs and welcomes email comments. The only thing we found missing was an active user forum.
Summary:
Propaganda is the just the thing for launching your message or music into the podcasting arena. Podcasting does not get any simpler than MixMeister Technology’s Propoganda.
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