You planned your live stream to perfection, you researched the
topic, put together a flawless run of show, booked a great guest, and
even had plenty of viewers joining.
Now it's time to put your feet up and relax, right?
Whoa, not so fast.
Future me.
Don't tell me you, aren't going to repurpose our live broadcast, repurposing
your live broadcast into highlight clips, audiograms, blog, posts, teasers quotes,
and many other things gets more mileage out of the content you've already created.
You did do all that work to have yourself a fantastic stream.
Didn't you?
Why not make the most out of it and reach more people.
Boost your exposure and expand your audience.
One of the quickest and easiest ways to repurpose your live stream and
grow your audience is to turn it into a podcast and I'll show you how in
this video, Randy, from Restream here.
Now let's take a look at how to download the audio files from your live streams.
Make a few edits and quickly turn them into podcast episodes.
All you need to get started is a recording of your live stream and an audio.
Recording and downloading your live streams is super easy with restream.
Your recordings are stored for at least 15 days or up to 30 days,
depending on your subscription plan, click the link in the description
below to learn more about our plans.
If you're already in Restream you'll see a cloud icon on the left
hand side here, you'll find all of the recordings available to you.
Find the live you're looking for and click the three dots followed by download.
Now you'll have the option to download the full recording as an MP4 file.
The audio files only, or the split track audio recordings.
That means you can download a separate audio file for each
person you had in restream studio.
Once the stream is over, this is helpful for when you and your guest happen to
talk over each other, the dog barks, or, and this has happened to me.
The fire alarm starts chirping.
No matter what happens when you're live, you can still get crisp, clean
audio for your podcast, download and save the audio file to your computer.
Now I'll show you what I use to edit these files and turn them into high quality
and polished podcast audio for this step.
I like to use descript, but there are plenty of editing software
options out there like audacity pro tools, riverside.fm, and GarageBand.
Just to name a few to get started with Descript drag your audio file into
descript and wait for it to upload.
As descript works on transcribing your file.
You'll have the ability to choose how many speakers talk in your audio.
Which makes editing that much easier and name the individuals talking in your clip.
Once that's done, we can take care of the bulk edits.
First click the wrench icon from the top bar followed by remove filler words.
This option will quickly highlight and remove all common filler words
like "um's" and "ah's" in one click.
Now that's done.
Click the wrench icon again, and this time choose shorten word gaps.
Most of the time, this setting can be kept at reducing any pause in
audio to just one second, but you can customize exactly how long you
want your pauses to be right here.
Parts of your live stream may not make sense as a podcast.
So here are some parts you might want to add or remove long pauses,
mishaps, or distracting noises.
Your podcast audience, won't get the visual cues to know what's happening.
It makes for a better listening experience to remove these parts from the podcast,
live audience interactions, especially out of context, or if you're just responding
to comments without actually acknowledging what was said out loud in your broadcast.
This can be very confusing for your audio listeners.
Live show, intro and outro, unless it adds something unique to your production
or hooks the audience we advise cutting out the pre-show banter or warmup from
the podcast version with Descript, you can copy the intro and create a new
composition named intro, ensuring to delete the intro from your main file,
then do the same.
But this time with the outro.
Now you'll have three separate files, your intro, Main, and Outro.
I'll talk more about why this was important in the next section.
In any case, you'll wanna make sure you brand your podcast with a strong intro,
focus on a topic and interview and close with a solid call to action and outro.
Great.
Your audio is polished and ready to publish for the world to hear the next
step is uploading it to a podcast hosting.
These services offer two main functions, one it's a central place
to store your podcast, audio files.
And two more importantly, it creates a podcast feed and automatically submits
it to podcast directories like apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Spotify,
Stitcher, and anywhere else that podcasts are available when choosing a hosting
platform consider how much storage space and what features you get with the paid.
How user friendly is a platform and will it connect to the podcast directories
that you need for this tutorial?
As I said earlier, I'll be using anchor, but the process is
pretty simple and universal for any podcast hosting platform.
After you've created your anchor account, go ahead and click new
episode from the top, right.
Followed by create an episode.
Now you'll wanna open up Descript and export those three
compositions we created before.
To do that, click into the composition, then choose, share from the top
right now, go ahead and choose export from the top, followed by audio.
Leave the settings as is and choose export again, do this for each file,
then drag and drop them into anchor.
And once they're uploaded, ensure to organize them now to further brand your
podcast, let's create a musical transition between the three sections of our audio.
To do that either upload your own music or choose from the free transition section,
no matter which one you choose, try and keep your choice of music consistent.
So audiences instantly recognize it when your podcast comes on next.
Now go ahead and organize these transitions into your podcast
and choose save from here.
You'll be able to add a descriptive title and captivating description to
hook audiences in from watch pages.
And publish your latest episode out to all of your channels at once.
Huh?
Kind of like restream, but for podcasts, let's go over a few more things.
You can keep in mind to close out this tutorial, do prep.
The guests, let your guests know.
The live show will also be a podcast.
Again, prompt them to describe for the listening audience when showing
things on camera, ask them to spell out names and URLs where needed.
Don't speak over your guests or co-host, it's natural to bump into
one another's words from time to time.
But if you wanna make the editing process less difficult later, try to be
aware of not speaking over each other or speaking at the same time as often
pro tip having a run of show helps here questions and talking points can be
assigned to each cohost prior to the show.
And there are precise moments where your guests should respond and
everyone else will know to be quiet.
Do use headphones or an earpiece, you've made sure you had an excellent
webcam, an awesome mic and solid internet connection for the live stream.
So why not go the extra mile to make sure you're wearing headphones or an earpiece?
This is something that we ask our guests as it maintains the highest
quality audio and eliminates any echoing from the broadcast.
That would be an editing nightmare.
Don't try to do it.
Hiring a skilled and experienced producer can truly make your live
stream, turn podcast, sound professional.
They can stay off screen to watch and listen to your stream and ensure
everything goes according to plan, they can monitor the live chat during
the stream and screen questions for you, or even just editing the audio
with a fresh pair of ears and a different perspective, which can really
streamline this whole process for.
Do promote your podcast.
Once a podcast is published, share the links to it across social media channels
and add a link in the description of your live video replay, ask people
to rate and review your podcast too, because that will help generate more
exposure in future live streams.
Mention that your show is also a podcast and how viewers
can access previous episodes.
If you're hoping to monetize your podcast, you'll have to promote
it to attract enough viewers.
So sponsors agree to work with.
If there's anything we missed, please let us know in the comments below, and
maybe we'll make a follow up part two.
If you like this video, leave a like, or hit that subscribe button for more
content like this as always, I've been Randy from restream and have yourself
a fantastic stream and podcast.