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- Let's talk about time-saving tips for podcasters.
If you wanna make a podcast and whizz through
in double speed or triple speed,
these tips may well help you.
First of all, I'm using Adobe Audition to record today.
It's an excellent piece of audio editing software,
and I'm gonna hit Record in the, well, waveform view,
the neutral that you get when you first load Audition,
and I'll show you a few tips.
So let's record and click OK.
We'll call it Mike Podcast.
Hello, this is Mike Russell and welcome to the show.
Today, on the show, we are going to have an epic guest.
I'll tell you (chuckles) their in just a moment.
I'll tell you their name in just a moment.
That's quite good, that I made a mistake there
'cause I can also edit that.
So when I've recorded my podcast,
sometimes, I'll have a single track.
Sometimes, I'll have two tracks, myself and a guest.
This is a very common thing when you're making a podcast.
If we go to multi-track, and I'll call this Podcast,
like so, first thing we may want to do is click OK,
and we'll get a neutral multi-track here.
We might want to make a little podcast template
that we can use again and again here in multi-track.
Very easy, I'm gonna name track one Host.
I'll name track two Guest,
and then we'll keep it really simple.
Track three will be SFX, for any sound effects,
and track four will be Music.
Now, if I say, "well, actually, I like the music closer
to the voiceover," it's no problem.
Just use the hand, grab with the mouse,
the left click, and drop, and then the music's above SFX.
If I don't want these extra two tracks, I can simply go
into Track, and I can delete the selected track
or it's Control + Alt + Backspace
or Command + Option + Backspace for you Mac users.
So I'll do it again.
There, so I've got four tracks ready to go.
If I wanted to save this as a template,
even with effects that I can put in.
So I might go ahead and add a very simple compressor here
on the Host track, very, very simple.
I'll just put on a ratio of 3 to 1
and I'll push the makeup gain up by 3 dB.
I'll also put a limiter on
that stops my audio peeking above minus 1 dB.
Another very quick hack to make your voice sound better.
So if I'm happy and I want to use this template again
and again, when I'm making podcasts,
I would go to File, and then I would go to Export,
and I would say Session as Template,
and instead of calling it just Podcast,
I'll call it Mike's Podcast,
and then what I can actually do is close down
that multi-track session, pretend that I'm starting
a brand new podcast, go to File, New Multitrack Session,
and I can drop down, and I can find Mike's Podcast template,
and we'll call this Podcast 001,
just to rename the session name there a little bit,
and there is my template, even leaves the cursor
in the same position as I left it.
It remembers everything.
So now, I'm going to drag and drop this in here,
and you'll want to remember some cool shortcuts.
One of them is ripple deleting.
Now, ripple deleting works really well
if you've got a couple of tracks going on or more, okay?
Say for instance, this was me on track one.
This was the guest on track two.
I know it's just a duplicate of me,
(person coughing)
but just pretend that for a moment,
and say, for instance, I had a sound effect as well.
(interference chattering)
Something like that at the start of my podcast.
Let's put it on the sound effect channel here
and actually, let's put it at end
to show you how ripple delete works.
Now, I want to make a deletion here,
but I also want to delete it on my Guest track,
and I'd like to budge the sound effect up,
so it doesn't lose time with the end of my podcast.
So I could either go through and go Right Click,
and then I could look for Ripple Delete,
and then I can do Time Selection in All Tracks,
which is what we're looking for,
or I can remember the shortcut key,
which is Control + Shift and Backspace, okay?
Or if you are Mac users,
it would be Command + Shift and Backspace.
Boom! And look at that.
It pulls everything up and does exactly what it should do.
Control or Command + Z or Z
for my friends across the other side of the ponds will undo.
Another great shortcut.
If you go through, make a load of edits like that
and realize you want to Control or Command + Z, Z,
Z all the time and you just undo, you'll be right back.
If you wanna duplicate things around,
a final little shortcut I'm gonna give you,
the top three shortcuts I like, Alt on a PC
or Option on a Mac will duplicate things like that.
So I can duplicate the sound effects all over the place.
It's really, really handy,
and also if I find I get something in the wrong track,
and here is a bonus shortcut for you.
Say I wanna move this sound effect down to this track,
but oh, it's wobbled out of time,
and I wanted to keep it where it was.
Hold down the Shift key and look at that.
It locks in time as you move it up and down between tracks.
So really handy stuff, but I'm gonna get rid of this.
Now, one thing I would do by default
to make sure everything is the same
volume level is select all my audio.
In multi-track, right-click, match the clip loudness,
leave all these settings.
Never touch them. They're perfect.
Click OK. Boom and there you go.
It's automatically leveled everything to be the same volume.
So that sound effect will be the same perceived loudness
as my speech there.
If you study this carefully and say,
"well, Mike, it says target loudness minus 23 LUFS.
I was always told for a podcast, it should be minus 16.
Yes it should when you mix down and create the final file
but for this purpose, you will go to minus 23, okay?
Just listen to me again. You will go to minus 23.
When you are mixing and matching, minus 23.
When you finalize, and it's the last file, minus 16.
"But why is that Mike?
Why would you do that?"
Well, there is one significant reason.
When you match loudness at the end of creating a podcast,
there is a limiter to stop that audio getting too loud.
When you are working in multi-track, there is no limiter.
Now, to a certain extent,
because you looking in 32-bit, you can't distort the audio,
but minus 23 is a safe number
that will stop any of your audio distorting.
Some people say, "I put the target loudness as minus 16.
I click OK. Look, it gets far too loud.
Look, there's distortion over here."
That's because you're going for minus 16.
So just remember, when you do this
for the first time, just don't touch anything.
Leave it, and it'll be fine, okay? (laughs)
And then my final thing.
I think will do some fade-ins and some fade-outs.
You just grab the gray box at the start or the end here,
like so, and you can place fades like that,
and if I was to make an edit here, I could do
a symmetrical fade by holding down Alt or Option key.
Look at that, and I can do a symmetrical fade-in and out.
So really nice editing hacks, and that pretty much.
Those are all, in a nutshell, some really cool
time-saving tips for you editing your podcast.
I hope you enjoy doing it,
and let me know if you have any questions
in the comment to this video
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