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Day 2 - "all that work, and it is GONE!"

3/20/2020

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Hi all. I decided to record my first "for public listening" guided meditation today (March 20th, 2020).
I will start by saying that this is not my first guided meditation recording - i have been recording for personal use (on my phone) for many years. I don't worry too much about how smooth they are because i am good at ignoring mistakes for a while and if the importance of the meditation out-lives the quality of the recording, then i will just re-record it. But now the stakes are a little higher. If this recording goes on the internet, it will be there FOREVER! I'd like to to have as few mistakes as possible so that it can be listened to repeatedly without the listener getting annoyed by the glitches.

Set up/prep :
  • write out a basic script
  • sound quality set-up (close window, turn off fans, etc)
  • voice warm-up
  • and record!
So it went pretty well, but there were some noises that made their way into the recording. So i rewound and recorded silence over those spots. This was a new technique i had not yet tried and it worked! (previously i have recorded, saved, and then edited but the "edit after recording" feature is not very easy to maneuver on a tiny screen. The "edit during recording" is much more spacious.) So, after i did all that, i hit "save". However, when i went to the list of recordings it was not there! Where did it go!!?? I had just spent approx 20 minutes set-up, 20 minutes recording, and another 15 minutes editing. All gone. HA HA HA! I believe i shrieked "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" I checked, and double checked and probably threw out a few expletives. And then, i (mostly) let it go. There was nothing i could do... except learn from this loss. 

Lessons learned/things to test out:
  • breathe. always pause and breathe. 
  • try a test recording and experiment with BOTH editing features and LEARN them well. 
  • is this loss an anomaly or is it a part of the "edit during recording" feature?
  • best learning? i am growing! rewind 5 years ago and i would not have taken this so well. it might have even been enough of a disappointment to throw the whole project into the toilet! but the new and improved me? here i am, sharing my loss, picking myself up off the floor and moving onward! YAY ME! 
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