Introduction to audio and video processing

Topic	Assignment
Audio applications
An editing example
Audio processing	Audio editing Alter Nixon speech
Quick and dirty audio cleanup	Edit and level recordings
Analog-digital conversion
Audio compression
Blind compression test
Audio quality
Doug Kaye: audio production how-to
Doug Kaye: recording telephone interviews using Skype
Advantages of podcasting
Video files
Video compression
Video file comparisons
Video is demanding
Making a narrated slide presentation with a table of contents
Changing presentation tempo
How to make a Camtasia screen cast
Resources
VLC multimedia player and transcoder
Capture streaming audio
Free sound effects and loops	Recording with sound effects Create a sound effect
Levelator
Odeo -- audio recording Web service
Noteflight music composition service
Audacity audio recorder and editor
LAME, an mp3 encoder for Audacity 1.26
FFMpeg, a WMA encoder for Audacity 1.36
Audacity keyboard shortcuts
Audacity: how-to presentation
Audacity Wiki
Audacity threaded discussion forum
Audacity tutorial (on Mac, but good for Windows too)
Audacity del.icio.us
Flash video editing
Jing -- free screen capture program
Review of online screencast capture services
100 YouTube tools and resources

For more detail on these topics, see: HowStuffWorks, Webopedia, Wikipedia, and The Digital Sound History Project. Jay Rose knows and shares a lot about audio recording and processing. The Podcast Academy is an excellent source of audio information and you can get a lot of help at their forums.

Note that the Audacity community uses a wiki to share tips and documentation.