Podfic woes

[ratherastory]

So my beloved kitty Pan-Pan (one of four, and the heaviest of the lot at 19lbs) decided he wanted love RIGHTTHEHELLNOW as I was trying to edit my podbang recording last night. No idea how he did it, but I lost 45 minutes' worth of recording, and have been unsuccessful in getting it back. Luckily the mods were understanding about my cat-related mishap and gave me a few days to pull it all together again.

Gnarr.

I love my cats. I love my cats. I love my cats. I will repeat this until I believe it again.

Bad enough the number of times I've had to re-record over the sound of unearthly yowling from the next room. Argh.


Anyway, onward and upward.

I have a question for the podficcers on my flist. I've posted the same question to podfic_tips, but I figured I'd cover all my bases. :)

This is still hypothetical, but I'm hoping to record some multi-chapter affairs in the coming months. My question is, how does this work logistically? If I were thinking of it as a CD, or an album, I'd like each chapter to have its own numbered track (e.g. Chapter 1 = Track 1, Chapter 2 = Track 2, etc.). Except I CANNOT for the life of me figure out how to do that and have it be all in one place.

Can I record each chapter as a separate file and then somehow combine them?

I'm using GarageBand on my Mac, and I'm hoping this is just a case of Clueless Newbieism and that it's actually child's play to do it.

Can anyone help me out?

Comments

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

Oh God.... that's horrible about your kitty deleting your files. I hope you're able to salvage *SOME* of it...
Can't help you with GarageBand, but if you want someone to rant to, I'm around.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Given that it's a three-hour recording, yeah, it should be okay. I'm going to try to finish fixing it tonight. *fingers crossed*

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

I'll cross my toes for you too.... And I love your icon!

But OUCH on the 3-hour recording...

[agent-jl36.livejournal.com]

I can't help you on your podfic woes, but I have a lot of experience with kit-cats. You can only stay mad until they do something cute like turn belly up! Humans cannot resist the belly fur!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, he has already flopped and purred and snuggled his way to forgiveness, the furry little bastard.

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

I love the icon!! And *snickers* at the cat...

[faunaana.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear!

Reminds me of the time my cat threw up all over my notes while I was writing my PhD qualifying exam. Hahaha, I was totally like, "OHHHH KITTY, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Eww... so gross. My sympathies.

One of my friends who's a teacher once had a cat pee all over her students' final papers. A fitting commentary, but unfortunate nonetheless... ;)