- [Roberto] Hey everybody, this is Roberto Blake
at RobertoBlake.com,
helping you create something awesome today.
So, welcome to another Adobe Audition tutorial.
Today I'm gonna be showing you how to edit a podcast
using Adobe Audition.
This is actually workflow that I use for editing
the Create Something Awesome Today podcast
which is over in SoundCloud and iTunes,
you should definitely check it out,
and what I do is I record directly into Adobe Audition,
so I've already done that, I've got an episode ready
to go here for you guys and what I'm gonna show you is
how I use multitrack sessions and I use the podcast template
in Adobe Audition to go ahead and edit that
and to go ahead and mix in my music and what have you.
So, this is an example of doing it
without doing an interview, so, I'll show you guys how,
in another tutorial, how to edit interviews
in Adobe Audition but let's go ahead and edit
a basic podcast, it's actually simpler than you might think
assuming that I've already like, you know, edited here,
cut out everything that I don't like,
I have the full episode already done,
but let's go ahead and show you how
to do that and set this up.
So, what we're gonna do is we're gonna go to the File
and New and we're gonna start a new multitrack session
and we're gonna use the podcast template.
There's a bunch of templates here,
we're just gonna use podcast,
and I'm gonna label this session name CSAT Podcast 24
'cause that stands for Create Something Awesome Today
and we're gonna hit OK.
Alright.
So, we have that and we've got our main tracks here
and you can see how we would do this if we had an interview.
We've got the host, which is me, we've got our interview,
so that would be the guest, and then we have
any sound effects and then we have our music bed.
So, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take this raw file here,
which is the episode, and I'm just gonna lay that down here
where it says host.
So, now I have that in place.
If I wanted to zoom in on any of this stuff kind of to see
it a little bit better, I can just go ahead and do that.
Up here I can scrub through different parts of the podcast.
So, this is an example, just playing through it real quick.
Hello everyone and welcome to
the Create Something Awesome Today podcast.
This is your host Roberto Blake.
Alright, so you can see how that's working out
and that it does pick up initially
the sound from the background.
So, what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna like, you know,
fade that in in a very like sharp fashion
and that's gonna improve things.
Let's take a look.
Hello everyone and welcome to
the Create Something Awesome Today podcast.
This is your host Roberto Blake.
So, that helps a bit but I think we can do better.
So, first of all, one of the first things we did
is we trimmed that up and then we're just gonna go ahead
and adjusting this, we're not gonna let the audio
really get going until about where I'm speaking
and we can see that here in the audio form.
So, I've just kind of adjusted that
and then our music bed will kind of
make up the difference there.
So, let's see how that works in playback.
Hello everyone and welcome to
the Create Something Awesome Today podcast.
As you can see, that works a lot better.
Now, the volume seems a little loud
so I'm just gonna pull that back a little bit
so that it's not spiking as much.
Hello everyone and welcome to
the Create Something Awesome Today podcast.
This is your host.
That's pretty much perfect right now.
So, this is already shaping up really well
and because of the way I do this podcast is super simple,
all I have to do now is drop in my intro and outro music.
Now, in my case I got my background music from AudioBlocks
and it's pretty standard, you guys also hear the same audio
music in my live stream and you also hear it in my
outros in terms of my end credits for YouTube,
so, I'm gonna just drag that here into the files
that I'm using for the session and that means
that you can just use it multiple times
and I'm gonna drop it here where it says music bed
and I'm gonna fade it in over here
and it usually fades out on its own
and then I'm gonna zoom out just so I can kind of like,
you know, see everything in the timeline
and that timeline is about roughly 24 minutes.
So, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna click on this,
I'm gonna hold down ALT, and I'm gonna drag it here
to the end which I made a duplicate basically
and now I'm just like aligning this and snapping it
to the end of the episode as you can see here
so that that trails off on its own
at about roughly the same time
and there we go.
So now I have my outro.
And, again, this is gonna end up, you know,
needing to be mixed down so that it doesn't
overpower my voice.
Watch.
(upbeat music) So important.
So, we're gonna need to mix this down
so it doesn't overpower my voice.
I know by default that it's going to do that,
so, let me just show you.
Just build that body of work guys, invest in it,
it is so important, I cannot stress that enough.
(upbeat music)
So, I need more single fade over time with that.
So, let's go ahead and just kind of do that.
And let's go ahead and lower this down.
I think, usually, I put it down to around maybe 25, 24,
something like that.
Invest in it, it is so important,
I cannot stress that enough.
(upbeat music)
Well, that's it for today's show.
Question of the day, how many executions
have you done right now for the year?
Right now this is August 2017, tell me something,
for the year of 2017, how many pieces in your body of work
in whatever you're executing on,
right now, what have you done?
And are you gonna go out there
and create something awesome today?
Alright, so, we need to bring that down
just a little bit more.
I think, maybe, negative 30 is the right amount.
(upbeat music)
Everyday, are you gonna ramp that number up?
There's still plenty of time this year for you to get
100 new pieces.
And what that does is this affects not only the outro here
but it affects the intro as well
because this is a track layer similar to when we do this
in Adobe Premiere, it affects everything on this portion
of the timeline.
About building your body of work.
(upbeat music) Building your body of work
is probably one of the most important things you can do
as a creative person, as an entrepreneur,
pretty much as anyone that's building their brand,
whether that's for their business
or if you're developing a personal brand.
Alright, so, that actually works out really well for us.
This is pretty much done at this point.
So, a couple of things, if I felt like I needed to
do anything with the voice portion of this,
which automatically the presets here for speech level
are in place, I can just do any number of things
and that would potentially improve the overall audio.
Cleanup and voice leveler, for example,
could do that but I actually don't think
I need it in this case.
My stuff is usually pretty clean
just because of the type of microphone that I use
which is the same one I use in these tutorials.
So, typically, I don't need to do that
but just know that these presets are here
and that they can help you.
So, we're pretty much done at this point
and we just need to save.
So, once we've saved, we need to export this
so that we can put it into iTunes, SoundCloud,
wherever we wanna host it.
I'm also gonna probably link down to some hosting
for podcasts as well as all the tools that you need
for podcast in terms of hardware, software, web hosting,
everything you need to do a podcast,
I'm gonna link to the description of this video
so that you guys can go ahead and grab those resources
but here in the metadata in Adobe Audition,
this is the secret sauce.
We're going to go ahead and fill this out
so that this works for search, this (audio cuts)
puts that information to iTunes, everything that we want.
So.
So, I put in the title, which I'm also going to
select all and copy.
Alright, so, we've got all of that
and now it's time to export our file.
I'm gonna export this both as an mp3 and as a wav file
just so that I have it lossless, so, it's gonna be
what's called a multitrack mixdown
and we're gonna select the entire session
and so I'm going to do this
and export it as a wav,
I'm gonna hit OK, and that's just gonna go ahead
and export it to my designated folder that I have
setup specifically for all of these podcast files
and then I'm just gonna repeat the process
and do it as an mp3 as well.
Mp3's are a smaller overall file which means that
if you're web hosting for your podcast goes by file size,
which a lot of them do, then that will help you
do that conservatively.
If you want to go ahead and host
the entire thing in its complete wav,
uncompressed as a backup on your actual website,
I host it there, I just don't put access to it
except in an emergency and I also upload the mp3 there
so that's just something, again, strategically
that you can do to make sure that you have your files.
In my case, I also back this stuff up to the
Adobe Creative Cloud 'cause that's part of one of the
benefits of the subscription model
that everyone whines so much about.
So, I'm just gonna do this as an mp3 as well.
And that's gonna be considerably smaller,
it's gonna take about the same time to export though
and that will give me the file that I wanna upload
for SoundCloud.
So, that's pretty much exactly how I edit my podcasts.
Again, it gets more complicated
depending on what you have to do.
If I were combining a recorded, a pre-recorded intro
with this, I would be adding another track here
but mostly I do everything in one take, believe it or not,
that's exactly how I do it.
If you guys have seen me live stream
then you know that that's kind of my workflow
is to do everything in one take and just edit out my flubs
and, again, that's just super simple
but this is how I assemble and set my podcast.
Like I said, if I had sound effects,
I would drop them in here,
if I had another interview, I would do that,
so I will do a more complicated version of this
at some point that walks you through what that process is
but this is just really simple and I think this is probably
the simplest workflow for editing a podcast
for many of you who are just getting started,
many of you will do this more or less in one take,
just record everything as one file,
edit out your mistakes, and you can just drop it in,
put your intro and outro, mix it down,
and then if there were places you wanted to add
sound effects, you could just drop them in there,
listen for it on your monitor headphones,
this is how you do your metadata
and, you know, you just put your whole title in there,
you just do your thing, list yourself as the artist,
and then when you upload this to whatever hosting
and distribute it at SoundCloud,
all that stuff will show up.
So, this is exactly, literally exactly
how I make my podcast, if you guys were wondering.
And you can check out that podcast at
CreateSomethingAwesomeToday.com or you can type in
Roberto Blake or Create Something Awesome Today
into iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher,
pretty much all of the places
and you'll be able to find it.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this.
If you have questions about podcasting,
definitely leave those in the comments of the video
and I will try and help you guys out with that.
Make sure you're checking out the other videos
that I have on the YouTube channel and in my playlist
and, as always you guys, thank you so much for watching
and don't forget, create something awesome today.
Take care.
(upbeat music)