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Kristy, Podcast Host
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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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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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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!

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    Kristy, Podcast HostAuthor
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    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? 

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    Kristy, Podcast HostAuthor
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    May 6, 2024

    You can create a favorite for Waveform view (won't work in Multitrack unfortunately) using the Amplitude effect - then you can make a selection and it will just apply it to just that bit. The trick to getting this to apply to just your selection is to select the entire waveform whilst creating the Favorite. When you come to use it, it won't do that - it will pick up just your selection. In the Edit Favorite box, it should look like this:

     

    I think that people are now getting used to remote guests sounding crappy, although I'm not suggesting we should necessarily accept that. All I'm suggesting is that we shouldn't perhap go overboard on trying to fix everything... A trick we've used in the past which can work quite well if your guest has a half-way decent portable recorder, is to get them to record their side of the conversation at their end, and send you the file, which you can integrate into the production. When this is done carefully, it can sound as though your guest is in the room with you. Years ago I managed to confuse a few people in Australia like that, although I used two feeds from one mic rather than a separate recorder, simply because they weren't available then.

     

    The 'So' conjunctive is okay to use as a continuation of an explanation, or a reply to a question, but not at the start of every sentence! Other things you can try are 'okay', 'right', 'moving on', etc etc or - just do what broadcasters do when introducing a new topic; plan a cue for it. IOW, write down your introduction, or at least the first sentence.

     


    Thank you!

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