http://Maclearning.org will host a webcast on Quartz Composer Fundamentals and Podcast Producer. The webcast will be presented by Bob Bajwa, Training Development Executive Apple Canada Inc. For more information go to http://maclearning.org/userpage.php?page_id=14

Apple has posted a new version of the Podcast Producer Workflow Tutorial that is now updated for Snow Leopard. It talks a about extending your workflows with custom transitions, compositions, encodings, etc. You can download the PDF from Apple: Podcast Producer Workflow Tutorial

Snow Leopard gives a couple of really nice compositions we can use with our recordings. All these compositions are available when we use Podcast Composer to make workflows. What you maybe don't realize is that using some of these effect might have severe effect on the performance of your workflow. The main culprit is the 'core-edit-master' task.

Somebody asked in the forums recently how to get Podcast Producer to upload videos automatically to YouTube.com. There is a description available by Apple at http://developer.apple.com/mac/articles/server/podcastproduceryoutube.html. This example uses a Java YouTube API library to upload the video, but I thought it might also be possible to do this the easy way: with ruby. I little while into writing this script I figured that this was something I would rather have available in pcastaction. Since there might be more things that people find missing in pcastaction I created pcptools.