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May 5, 2024
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Looking for suggestions for work flow when editing multitracks for a podcast

  • May 5, 2024
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Greetings,

Does anyone have a workflow that you would suggest for using Audition to edit a podcast interview?

I have 2 or 3 different audio files, separate for each guest, recorded from Zoom, often 30 - 50 minutes to clean up. I work mostly in multitrack but sometimes enter waveform for more detail.

Here is the order that  I have been doing, so far

1.  Noise Reduction to clean up ongoing background noise that is consistent

2. Diagnostics to Strip Silence to identify breaks

3. Listen and manually edit ums/so/you know, odd single noises/word fumbles

4. Essential Sound for a little enhancement

5. Add intro and exit sound clips with music

6. export mixdown

 

I've noticed that I spend a lot of time waiting when I do my manual edits and am wondering if I should do those first.

What other effects/edits do you use regularly?

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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Community Expert
May 5, 2024

De-umming and de-erring is one of the few tasks that I think it's worth doing in Waveform view. As long as you retain a sensible flow, you won't want to redo it, and it means that if you put marker ranges around the bits you want to keep when you've tidied them up, it's easy to drop them straight into your multitrack session. One thing that unfortunately Audition won't do at present is to let you set sensible speeds for that J,K and L keys - it jumps straight from x1 to x2, and x2 leaves speech sounding unrecognisable. If it had x1.25 and x1.5 as well, especially without a pitch shift, it would make locating gaps, ums and errs a lot quicker, and speed up one's workflow significantly. (I think that the chances of me getting that added are pretty slender, unfortunately, but I'll give it another go...)

 

Other than that, the only other thing I can tell you is that after a while, it gets quicker to locate all these things visually, as well as with your ears - pay careful attention to the waveform itself; it can tell you a lot!

Known Participant
May 5, 2024

Steve,

Thank You. Where can I find "De-umming and de-erring"? Does this impact the voice when the speaker says, "um" or is this for a humming sound from the microphone? 

SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 5, 2024

They aren't tools - you don't find them! They are just things that people say when they want a bit of thinking room, and that's the name the process was given. The expression came from broadcast use, when originally you had to do this with 1/4" tape and a razor blade. Doing this in Audition is unbelieveably quicker and simpler!