- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com.
In this video, I'll show you three ways
to cut your podcast editing time in half using Descript.
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Descript is one of my favorite tools
for quickly editing podcasts,
and particularly removing and replacing mistakes.
Let me show you three really cool features that it has.
And the first one
is the ability to remove something we all do,
um's, uh's, and what Descript calls filler words.
Let's have a look.
What I'm gonna do in this podcast project
is do a new audio recording,
hit record, and just start speaking.
Hello, this is Mike Russell, uh,
and welcome to my podcast, uh.
Today, we'll talk about uh, something,
I don't quite know what uh,
I'm struggling really to know exactly what I want to say.
Not only does it transcribe me in real time
as I'm recording my podcast episode,
I can actually edit this
like a Word processor document, it's amazing.
But you'll see already,
it knows my filler words and has underlined them,
so all I need to do is right click on a filler word,
select remove filler words,
and then it gives me all of them,
I just click apply to all and boom, it's done,
it's as simple as that.
Let's listen from the start to this podcast
and see exactly how it sounds now.
Hello, this is Mike Russell, and welcome to my podcast.
Today we'll talk about something, I don't quite know what,
I'm struggling really to know exactly what I want to say.
Absolutely perfect.
And if I need to go through
and edit any parts of this podcast,
I can do so by clicking the exact words.
It's very, very cool, indeed.
But that's not all, there are so many cool features,
let's look at feature number two, and this is overdub,
the ability to take something you've already recorded
and swap it out for something else.
Pretty phenomenal, it takes a little bit of voice training,
so you have to spend some time talking into Descript,
recording scripts until the AI gets a feel for your voice
so it can recreate it.
Now I'm just going to start again
with a brand new recording here,
and it's gonna be an audio recording.
Hello, I'm Mike Russell and welcome to episode 369.
There we go, automatically transcribed as I go along.
I can play that back.
Hello, I'm Mike Russell and welcome to episode 369.
And say I wanted a different episode,
number 369 wasn't quite cutting it.
Select the episode number, hit the D key,
and that will bring up overdub,
but of course, before you do that,
you need to select your speaker that you recorded in.
So there I am, now I can hit D, I can access overdub,
I can type in a new episode number,
I'm just gonna add spaces between those numbers
so it doesn't say 578, I want five, seven, eight,
give it a moment to do its overdub
and generate my voice out of the cloud
using artificial intelligence.
Once this is done,
I should get a nicely mixed episode number,
or replacement word, or whatever it is I'm swapping out,
something that sounds a bit like this.
Hello, I'm Mike Russell, and welcome to episode 578.
Pretty good, and of course I can go through,
I can choose any different number I like,
I can choose different words.
If I wanted to, I could just scrap the whole thing
and say, I'm really cool,
and generate something completely new
that I've never said before,
and overdub will do the rest for me.
Let's have a listen to how this overdub sounds
and does it really work?
Let's press the play button and have a listen.
I'm really cool.
Yeah, well, there you go (chuckles).
That's amazing, that is just blowing my mind.
And there is also one more thing I want to show you
and this is how you can make any recording,
whether it's recorded over Zoom,
whether it's on an internal microphone,
whether there's bags of echo,
or it's just simply not the best quality,
could be an old quality recording,
make it sound studio quality, it's using studio sound.
And to demonstrate this, I'm gonna add in a voice file,
it is a Zoom call I made recently,
and here it is, let's listen to the original track.
He's leading and accountable for the strategy,
maintenance integrity,
value for money, and continuous improvement.
Okay, you can definitely hear on there,
there is quite a little bit of echo
and low quality audio due to Zoom.
Add an effect here in Descript,
we're going for a studio sound
which is an audio repair effect.
It's gonna take just a few seconds
or depending on the length of your show,
it might take a few minutes to analyze your audio,
send it up to the cloud,
and by artificial intelligence,
it will start improving the sound of that clip.
Now, this is quite different to noise reduction
and traditional noise removal and sound removal effects
that I've used in the past
as it's not trying to remove the background noise,
it's not trying to do anything like that,
it's actually generating a brand new sound,
this is why it works so well on old recordings.
But right now we're listening to this Zoom call,
let's go back to the start
and play it with studio sound applied.
He is leading and accountable for the strategy,
maintenance integrity, value for money,
and continuous improvement.
That is pretty insane if you ask me.
So three ways to cut your editing time in half
when making your podcast episodes,
number one, removing filler words,
number two, replacing your speech
with something you never said
but you don't wanna go back and rerecord it,
and number three, make those bad recordings
sound studio quality.
So thank you to my friends at Descript
for sponsoring this video.
The features you've just seen
have all been done inside Descript.
If you wanna try their groundbreaking technology
and new features that help you edit podcasts really quickly,
check the link in my description right now
so you can go and download it and try it for yourself,
and let me know what features excite you the most
about Descript in the comments down below.
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