How to Edit a Podcast in Audacity
This tutorial will walk you through how to edit a podcast in Audacity from importing to exporting the final export.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Adding Audio Files to Audacity
00:00:32 - Normalize Audio
00:00:48 - Level Audio
00:02:08 - Remove/Delete gaps and pauses
00:03:37 - Remove breaths or unwanted sounds
00:04:00 - Two people speaking over each other
00:04:30 - Cleanup stumbled dialog
00:05:26 - Delete breaths
00:05:53 - Reduce breath volume
00:07:22 - Remove random background noises
00:07:54 - Remove unnecessary dialog and words
00:08:34 - Save Project
00:09:26 - keep an eye out for breathing in as well as breathing out
00:10:05 - Remove some repeated words when stumbling speech
00:10:22 - Moving Dialog
00:12:40 - When to keep repeated or stumbled words
00:13:04 - Remove overlapped speakers
00:13:19 -Intentionally have people speaker over each other
00:14:24 - Occasionally remove times when we acknowledge the speaker
00:15:03 - Overlapping laughter and dialog
00:15:46 - Adding intro and outro music
00:16:00 - Adjusting Intro music
00:17:54 - Fade
00:19:54 - Outro
00:21:04 - Repeat
00:22:10 - Export Audio