WEBVTT 00:00:00.001 --> 00:00:02.580 (upbeat music) 00:00:02.580 --> 00:00:08.960 - Hey, I'm Monica Hunter-Harts. 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:12.120 I'm a recent graduate from Columbia's School of International 00:00:12.120 --> 00:00:14.800 and Public Affairs and the Journalism School. 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:18.340 I focused on audio production and podcast production 00:00:18.340 --> 00:00:19.780 when I was at the journalism school. 00:00:19.780 --> 00:00:22.840 And on Monday, I'm going to be starting a position 00:00:22.840 --> 00:00:25.640 at Mike Asia, helping them to build their first podcast 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:27.180 from the ground up. 00:00:27.180 --> 00:00:29.720 I love podcasting, audio production, 00:00:29.720 --> 00:00:33.160 and I'm just really excited to be here with you all. 00:00:33.160 --> 00:00:37.780 So, today we're going to be talking about 00:00:37.780 --> 00:00:39.360 Adobe Auditions specifically. 00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:42.880 There are a lot of different digital audio workstations 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:46.680 or DAWs that you can record podcasts with. 00:00:46.680 --> 00:00:49.680 There's Audacity, which is wonderful because it's free. 00:00:49.680 --> 00:00:51.120 And there's going to be a tutorial for that 00:00:51.120 --> 00:00:52.600 later in this series. 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:55.600 There's also Pro Tools, which is the industry standard. 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:58.040 And then there is Adobe Audition, 00:00:58.040 --> 00:01:01.000 which is also very commonly used in the industry. 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:03.120 It's cheaper than Pro Tools, much cheaper. 00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:05.280 And it's also typically considered easier 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:06.320 to use than Pro Tools. 00:01:06.320 --> 00:01:09.280 So, it's a really great option for when you're starting out 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:11.040 in the world of podcast producing. 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:13.920 And that's why we are focusing on that today. 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:16.520 It's also the one that people typically use at Columbia. 00:01:16.520 --> 00:01:18.080 So, if you're a student, that's probably 00:01:18.080 --> 00:01:19.080 what you'll be using. 00:01:19.080 --> 00:01:23.760 Okay, so I'm going to share my screen. 00:01:27.520 --> 00:01:32.520 Okay, can you all see Audition right now? 00:01:32.520 --> 00:01:35.200 - Yes. 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:36.120 - Thank you, thank you. 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:37.480 Okay, excellent. 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:41.000 So, just going to minimize this. 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:44.520 All right, so basically let's just talk about 00:01:44.520 --> 00:01:46.520 setting up the audio interface. 00:01:46.520 --> 00:01:50.200 So, I'm just going to save this. 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:53.640 Okay, so when you're first starting out, 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:56.840 you want to make sure that you have your output 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.760 and your inputs all set up ready to go. 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:02.760 So, you're going to go up to Adobe Audition, 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:06.760 appear, preferences, and then audio hardware. 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:11.760 Can you actually, sorry, Michelle, 00:02:11.760 --> 00:02:12.920 are you able to see all of these things 00:02:12.920 --> 00:02:14.840 when I'm doing it, or can you only see part of the screen? 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:16.160 - I was just wondering that, 00:02:16.160 --> 00:02:19.720 I think that it's a little bit cut off on the sides. 00:02:19.720 --> 00:02:23.120 And also, once you'd clicked preferences, 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:26.560 I could see the modal, but I wasn't able to see that menu 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:28.360 up at the top when you started out. 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:31.240 - Okay, okay, well, in that case, 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:34.080 I'm going to try sharing my entire screen. 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:36.040 So, just give me one moment, sorry. 00:02:36.040 --> 00:02:56.040 Okay, so, I'm just going to come back here. 00:02:57.040 --> 00:03:01.040 Share the entire desktop. 00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:04.040 And we got Audition right here. 00:03:04.040 --> 00:03:11.040 Excellent, so, if you go up here to preferences, 00:03:11.040 --> 00:03:14.840 audio hardware, you just want to make sure 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:18.480 that your default input and output are correct here. 00:03:18.480 --> 00:03:21.720 So, right now, we're looking at, 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:24.840 basically, my sound is coming out of Zoom. 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:27.320 So, Zoom Audio Device default input 00:03:27.320 --> 00:03:29.320 is just the built-in microphone. 00:03:29.320 --> 00:03:32.080 I'm basically going to assume throughout this tutorial 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:37.240 that we are not recording directly into Adobe Audition. 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:39.360 You definitely can, and I'll show you a little bit of that. 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:41.520 But in general, at Columbia, 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:45.160 people use Tascam recorders or other external recorders, 00:03:45.160 --> 00:03:49.320 and then physically, manually input the files 00:03:49.320 --> 00:03:50.320 that they've already recorded. 00:03:50.320 --> 00:03:52.160 So, I'm just going to use 00:03:54.480 --> 00:03:59.480 the microphone, just the built-in Zoom Audio Device. 00:03:59.480 --> 00:04:02.120 So, great, we're good to go. 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:06.200 Saving that, stop share for a moment. 00:04:06.200 --> 00:04:09.280 The sharing might be a little clunkier 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:11.720 than I had hoped, and I apologize. 00:04:11.720 --> 00:04:16.120 Basically, okay, we're going to go back to just here. 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:16.960 All right, so, 00:04:16.960 --> 00:04:21.280 oh, I also did want to mention that 00:04:21.280 --> 00:04:23.200 if you do not have access to 00:04:23.200 --> 00:04:24.680 a sort of fancy external recorder, 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:28.040 like a Tascam, you can record on a smartphone, 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:29.720 which definitely makes recordings 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:33.120 of a pretty acceptable quality overall, 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:34.600 either an Android or a smartphone. 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:36.280 You just want to hold your smartphone 00:04:36.280 --> 00:04:38.400 about four inches-ish, 00:04:38.400 --> 00:04:41.360 which is about four fingers length away from your mouth. 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:43.280 And ideally, at some sort of an angle, 00:04:43.280 --> 00:04:45.960 either like this or like this, 00:04:45.960 --> 00:04:48.320 so that you're not breathing directly into it 00:04:48.320 --> 00:04:51.200 and you're minimizing plosives in your speech. 00:04:51.200 --> 00:04:55.720 Plosives are like hard consonants of P's and T's and K's. 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:56.800 And then if you do that, 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:58.680 then it actually, it works pretty well. 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:01.280 And that's actually something that 00:05:01.280 --> 00:05:03.440 often people are instructed to do. 00:05:03.440 --> 00:05:05.200 If you are an interviewee 00:05:05.200 --> 00:05:07.200 and you were recording with a podcast professional, 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:10.040 then you're told to use your smartphone to record yourself 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:12.000 and then send the audio file in. 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:13.600 So it definitely works. 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:17.520 Yes, definitely works if you don't have a Tascam. 00:05:17.520 --> 00:05:19.600 Okay, so, 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:23.200 two audition here. 00:05:23.200 --> 00:05:28.080 So overall, you have two basic work views. 00:05:28.080 --> 00:05:30.680 You have the waveform view 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:32.560 and you have the multitrack view. 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:34.200 So let's just save a session here. 00:05:34.200 --> 00:05:39.200 Let's call it Adobe Audition Tutorial 1022. 00:05:39.200 --> 00:05:42.480 Great. 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:46.160 So let's minimize this a little bit 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:47.720 and make this a little bigger. 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:51.000 So this is the basic work view 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:53.760 that you're going to be looking at most of the time here. 00:05:53.760 --> 00:05:56.480 You have your tracks here. 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:57.440 You can always add more. 00:05:57.440 --> 00:05:59.520 I'm now zooming out a little bit, 00:05:59.520 --> 00:06:01.120 but this is your general, 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:02.720 these are your list of tracks. 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:08.440 Over here you have the files that you're inputting. 00:06:08.440 --> 00:06:11.800 And let's see. 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:16.080 Now, anytime that you're making a change 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:17.520 to an audio file that you've imported 00:06:17.520 --> 00:06:19.400 in this multitrack view, 00:06:19.400 --> 00:06:24.080 it's not actually making a change to the audio file itself. 00:06:24.080 --> 00:06:25.040 So that's really important. 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:26.880 So basically, if you're in this waveform view 00:06:26.880 --> 00:06:28.720 and you're recording directly into it, 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:33.720 let's also just, let's call this Adobe Audition Wave Form. 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:37.200 Let's just do a little quick recording here. 00:06:37.200 --> 00:06:39.120 Let me just say something like, 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:42.600 "Hello everybody, thank you so much for being here today." 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:44.080 Stop. 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:45.680 Now, if we want to listen like, 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:48.640 "Hello everybody, thank you so much for being here today." 00:06:48.640 --> 00:06:49.760 Great, hope you all can hear that. 00:06:49.760 --> 00:06:53.960 So, if we want to come back to the multitrack, 00:06:53.960 --> 00:06:58.520 we now have this waveform over here and we can pull it in. 00:06:58.520 --> 00:07:02.400 Hello everybody, thank you so much for being here today. 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:04.320 Great, so if we're in the waveform view, 00:07:04.320 --> 00:07:07.600 we're taking an up close look at the audio file itself. 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:09.560 And if we want to make changes in here, 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:11.000 everything is going to be permanent. 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:13.660 We're affecting the original file. 00:07:13.660 --> 00:07:15.680 If we don't want to do that, 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:16.520 then we want to make sure 00:07:16.520 --> 00:07:19.560 we're making the changes here in the multitrack view. 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:24.400 So basically, yeah, if you're looking at the multitrack view, 00:07:24.400 --> 00:07:28.840 you're basically, Adobe Audition is drawing on the data 00:07:28.840 --> 00:07:32.720 from the audio file rather than the audio file itself. 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:35.720 And I'll talk a little bit more about that later. 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:36.560 Okay, so at any time, 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:38.880 you can just switch between these two views 00:07:38.880 --> 00:07:39.880 up here on the top left. 00:07:39.880 --> 00:07:41.880 And if you double click on a file, 00:07:41.880 --> 00:07:43.240 then you're going to go automatically 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:44.440 into the waveform view. 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:50.800 Okay, so let's go back to just the recording for a second. 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:56.480 So if you go up to file, new audio file. 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:01.600 All right, so we're actually going to change this 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:03.080 to 44, 100. 00:08:03.080 --> 00:08:06.960 That's just typically what we use. 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:10.040 So just call this again, Adobe 2. 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:14.200 Stereo is if you are trying to, 00:08:14.200 --> 00:08:15.080 it's a little more complicated, 00:08:15.080 --> 00:08:17.400 you're basically getting a surround sound effect 00:08:17.400 --> 00:08:18.720 and it enables panning. 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:23.720 So they can put kind of position different audio files 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:29.120 around a pan. 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:32.360 So it sounds like you're listening to, for example, 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:33.760 a lawn mowing on the right 00:08:33.760 --> 00:08:36.320 and then maybe a dog barking on the left. 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:38.120 I don't recommend that in general, 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.160 just because it's just not necessary 00:08:41.160 --> 00:08:43.320 for the podcasting, basic podcasting, 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:44.800 unless you're really trying to set a scene 00:08:44.800 --> 00:08:47.560 and you want the listener to feel fully immersed. 00:08:47.560 --> 00:08:49.640 But again, it's just generally not necessary. 00:08:49.640 --> 00:08:52.560 So we're going to do file name, sample, 00:08:52.560 --> 00:08:58.680 forward and a lot and then it's 32. 00:08:58.680 --> 00:09:01.520 Okay, let's just do one more little recording here. 00:09:01.520 --> 00:09:03.560 Testing, one, two, three. 00:09:03.560 --> 00:09:04.400 Great. 00:09:04.400 --> 00:09:11.360 Saved, come over here and we can, oops, here we go. 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.720 Pull that over here. 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:15.440 So perfect. 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:16.720 So sometimes you're going to get a message 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:17.720 that comes up like this. 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:19.920 It says the sample rate of the inserted file 00:09:19.920 --> 00:09:22.320 does not match the sample rate of the session. 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:25.000 That basically just means that the 44, 100 Hertz rate 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:26.480 that we set the session to 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:28.480 is not actually what this was recorded at. 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.120 And if that does happen, then you can just click okay 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:33.840 and it will automatically make a copy 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:36.120 that's at the correct rates rate. 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:38.720 It's only if you're recording at like 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:41.040 a really different Hertz rate, 00:09:41.040 --> 00:09:42.880 a very, very, very low one or a very, very high one, 00:09:42.880 --> 00:09:44.160 but it would actually make a difference 00:09:44.160 --> 00:09:45.000 when you're copying it over. 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:49.240 So you can just hit okay and that would be fine. 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:51.640 All right, great. 00:09:51.640 --> 00:09:52.920 So let's see. 00:09:52.920 --> 00:09:55.520 Yeah, you have some basic kind of controls down here. 00:09:55.520 --> 00:09:59.600 You know, play, fast forward, rewind, record. 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:01.800 This is pretty useful, loop playback. 00:10:01.800 --> 00:10:06.480 So if you want to listen to just a particular part 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:08.000 of your recording over and over 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:10.400 and kind of make up a minute edit, 00:10:10.400 --> 00:10:12.120 then you can just put that on. 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:15.760 So when it's blue, then the loop is selected. 00:10:15.760 --> 00:10:19.040 If I want to, so let's actually, let's come in here. 00:10:19.040 --> 00:10:22.080 Let's say I want to loop 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:25.920 the something like here. 00:10:25.920 --> 00:10:30.920 I can click I on my keyboard and then click O over here. 00:10:30.920 --> 00:10:33.360 So I for in, O for out, 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:37.040 and that just selects a little portion of this. 00:10:37.040 --> 00:10:39.400 Put the playhead somewhere in here 00:10:39.400 --> 00:10:43.080 and then you can just hit play once the loop is selected. 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:46.520 And then you can just listen to it. 00:10:46.520 --> 00:10:47.360 Yes. 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:51.440 And so this is, as I just mentioned, the playhead. 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:53.720 This is basically just your cursor, 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:55.200 but wherever the playhead is, 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:57.440 is where the playback will start 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:59.680 whenever you hit this space bar. 00:10:59.680 --> 00:11:00.440 Okay. 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:01.280 Hello, everybody. 00:11:01.280 --> 00:11:02.280 Good, good, good. 00:11:02.280 --> 00:11:03.120 All right. 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:08.120 So, let's see. 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:09.960 If you are in the waveform view, 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:12.080 I think this is maybe the last one to say about this. 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:17.000 You can actually highlight a portion 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:19.080 and then just actually delete it. 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:21.600 I don't recommend that again 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:23.520 because you're permanently deleting it. 00:11:23.520 --> 00:11:25.840 And then in the waveform view, 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:29.120 you can also just do the same sort of highlight, loop, 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:32.760 zoom in, zoom out functions that you can do in the multitrack. 00:11:32.760 --> 00:11:35.280 But I think we're pretty much going to stay in the multitrack 00:11:35.280 --> 00:11:36.480 from here on out. 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:39.400 All right. 00:11:39.400 --> 00:11:42.400 Down here, you can see the timing of the recording, 00:11:42.400 --> 00:11:43.440 the timestamps. 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:45.720 So over here, you're at zero, zero. 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:48.000 As you move on, you've got two seconds, four seconds, 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:50.960 et cetera, and then the exact time that's down here, 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:52.320 but we don't actually need to. 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:54.920 You have to minimize it so we have a better view. 00:11:54.920 --> 00:11:59.920 All right. 00:11:59.920 --> 00:12:02.640 So, yes, so as we just said, 00:12:02.640 --> 00:12:04.920 this is basically it's all operating chronologically. 00:12:04.920 --> 00:12:06.600 So if I put this down here, 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:07.840 it's layered on top of each other, 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:10.160 you're going to hear both at once, 00:12:10.160 --> 00:12:11.360 which is not what we want in this case, 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:12.200 but let's just listen. 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:14.520 - Oh, hi, so let's see. 00:12:14.520 --> 00:12:15.360 - Hello, everybody. 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:17.200 Thank you so much for being here today. 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:19.920 You want to make sure that your audio is... 00:12:19.920 --> 00:12:22.920 Thank you so much for being here today and next to each other. 00:12:22.920 --> 00:12:26.120 One really great tool is this magnet up here. 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:28.560 It's called toggle snapping. 00:12:28.560 --> 00:12:33.560 If you turn that on, then you're able to have the audio 00:12:35.400 --> 00:12:37.160 that you're moving next to another clip 00:12:37.160 --> 00:12:41.200 just automatically snap so that it fits right at the end there. 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:42.960 So if you don't have it on, 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:45.640 then if I hope you can see this, 00:12:45.640 --> 00:12:48.720 let me zoom in just a little bit more. 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:51.360 If you don't have that on, then you have to be 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:53.880 as precise as you can be in and really zoom in 00:12:53.880 --> 00:12:57.760 if you want to be right next to it, right, like that. 00:12:57.760 --> 00:12:59.760 But if you do have it on, 00:12:59.760 --> 00:13:01.760 then it just automatically does that for you. 00:13:01.760 --> 00:13:03.120 So toggle snapping can be great 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:06.120 unless you're not actually trying to have the audio 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:07.600 that's right next to each other. 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:12.280 All right. 00:13:12.280 --> 00:13:14.520 Okay, so a couple notes on zooming. 00:13:14.520 --> 00:13:18.720 All right, so zooming can be done just on your keyboard 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:23.040 with the classic shortcuts option plus or option minus 00:13:23.040 --> 00:13:23.880 on a Mac. 00:13:23.880 --> 00:13:26.080 We'll do that down here. 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:29.400 This... 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:32.880 I think we might have another... 00:13:32.880 --> 00:13:37.520 If you could meet yourself if you don't have a question, 00:13:37.520 --> 00:13:39.080 that would be helpful. 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:42.680 Okay, and then you can click this button down here. 00:13:42.680 --> 00:13:43.520 This is very useful. 00:13:43.520 --> 00:13:44.960 Zoom out full. 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:48.480 So if you are zoomed in, let's see. 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:51.600 Zoom in a bunch. 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:56.600 And then you can see all the tracks at once 00:13:56.600 --> 00:14:00.280 and each of the tracks in their entire lengths, 00:14:00.280 --> 00:14:01.320 and you can hit that. 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:02.960 And then suddenly they're looking at the whole project 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:04.960 at once, very useful. 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:05.800 Okay. 00:14:05.800 --> 00:14:09.200 Oh, and then yes, this is yet another way 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:10.040 to be zooming in and out. 00:14:10.040 --> 00:14:12.840 We've got this little toggle bar at the top. 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:15.080 You can drag the edges of it. 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:20.000 And then you can also drag it from side to side 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:23.040 if you want to quickly move throughout your project. 00:14:23.040 --> 00:14:24.680 And this is just really useful 00:14:24.680 --> 00:14:28.800 if you have a long podcast for a 30 to 40 minute podcast. 00:14:28.800 --> 00:14:30.920 And if you're just trying to scroll all the way through it, 00:14:30.920 --> 00:14:32.080 it's quite tedious. 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.120 So this can be very useful. 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:36.120 Okay. 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:38.640 So yes, we just recorded a little bit of audio 00:14:38.640 --> 00:14:41.160 directly into audition. 00:14:41.160 --> 00:14:44.520 But let's use the method that I'm pretty sure 00:14:44.520 --> 00:14:45.720 most of you are going to be using, 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:48.320 which is bringing in audio manually 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.400 that you have already reported outside of audition. 00:14:50.400 --> 00:14:51.880 So there are two ways to do that. 00:14:51.880 --> 00:14:56.320 So let's pull this over here. 00:14:57.520 --> 00:15:00.920 So this right here is the input audio file button. 00:15:00.920 --> 00:15:03.320 That's the way that I typically like to do it. 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:08.760 I'm going to do this monocle pre-recording. 00:15:08.760 --> 00:15:12.640 All right, so we've got this over here. 00:15:12.640 --> 00:15:15.400 Yeah, you can just literally hit this 00:15:15.400 --> 00:15:17.760 and then just find it on your computer. 00:15:17.760 --> 00:15:19.840 There's also a media browser option down here 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:24.000 where you can also go through and find it. 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.720 This is just for me a little bit more annoying 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:31.120 because you have to sort through all the folders 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:32.480 and I've never been very good at that. 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:35.040 But the nice thing about the media browser 00:15:35.040 --> 00:15:37.240 is that if you do have the files listed down here, 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:40.760 you can hit play down here and then test it. 00:15:40.760 --> 00:15:44.960 So you can make sure that you're inputting the right file. 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:46.560 But either way works. 00:15:46.560 --> 00:15:49.720 So see, I'm going to minimize this again. 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:52.920 And see a match a little bit. 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:57.120 And I'll pull in this other recording. 00:15:57.120 --> 00:15:59.280 So now I'm going to mute this top track 00:15:59.280 --> 00:16:02.080 so that we can just hear this track. 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:04.240 - Hello and welcome to the Columbia University 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:06.000 Adobe Audition tutorial. 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:06.880 - Great. 00:16:06.880 --> 00:16:09.800 Another thing you can do is solo a track 00:16:09.800 --> 00:16:14.640 and that automatically basically mutes the other tracks 00:16:14.640 --> 00:16:16.760 and then makes it so that you're just hearing 00:16:16.760 --> 00:16:18.200 the solo track. 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:20.440 And if you want to solo two tracks at once, you can. 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:23.440 And then you'll only be listening to those two tracks. 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:24.280 - Hi. 00:16:24.280 --> 00:16:26.480 - So you've got yes, m from you to ask for solo, 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:28.400 R for record. 00:16:28.400 --> 00:16:31.560 So you can also record directly in the multi-track view. 00:16:31.560 --> 00:16:35.600 You can just hit record, make sure that you're selecting 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:37.400 the track you want to record onto 00:16:37.400 --> 00:16:40.680 and then hit this record button down here. 00:16:40.680 --> 00:16:43.280 But let's not just do that. 00:16:43.280 --> 00:16:44.600 Okay. 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:45.440 So here we are. 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.880 We've got this new file that I already imported. 00:16:48.880 --> 00:16:50.840 As soon as you do import a file, 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:55.200 whether it's a file that you've just reported 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:58.880 or you're importing a previously existing file, 00:16:58.880 --> 00:17:01.720 they're all going to appear up here in list list. 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:03.480 So this is basically your list of files 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:06.340 that you're using currently in Audition. 00:17:06.340 --> 00:17:09.140 Okay. 00:17:09.140 --> 00:17:10.880 So let's see. 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:16.600 All right. 00:17:16.600 --> 00:17:18.320 So I also just wanted to 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:25.880 make sure we already saved this at the beginning, 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:27.280 but I just want to make one quick note 00:17:27.280 --> 00:17:29.400 before we get too far along to just say that 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:32.000 when you are saving the Adobe Audition file, 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:35.480 it's saved as a .sbsx. 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:38.280 That's just a session, an audition session. 00:17:38.280 --> 00:17:42.440 And every time that you open a pre-existing audition session, 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:45.040 Audition is going to be drawing on 00:17:45.040 --> 00:17:47.640 the original audio files. 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:50.680 And that's not what you have in here. 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:55.680 This is just data about the original audio file. 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:57.600 It's not the original audio file itself, 00:17:57.600 --> 00:17:59.360 unless you are going into the waveform. 00:17:59.360 --> 00:18:01.800 But basically you want to make sure 00:18:01.800 --> 00:18:05.040 that you're saving all of your audio files 00:18:05.040 --> 00:18:08.840 and the audition session, the .sbsx, 00:18:08.840 --> 00:18:10.040 all in the same place. 00:18:10.040 --> 00:18:14.360 Luckily, Audition does already save copies 00:18:14.360 --> 00:18:18.200 of the files that you're inputting in its own folder 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:21.800 as soon as you save a .sbsx folder. 00:18:21.800 --> 00:18:26.800 But sometimes I just have forgotten to copy a file over 00:18:26.800 --> 00:18:29.400 or I use it or something happens. 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:30.920 And I just personally like to make sure 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:33.080 that I'm saving them all in the same place 00:18:33.080 --> 00:18:36.400 because Audition needs to know where to find those files. 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:40.680 So if you're moving the session at some point 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:42.400 or you're moving some of the files, 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:46.120 it might not know where to draw them from. 00:18:46.120 --> 00:18:48.400 You might get some sort of message popping up 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:50.960 that says Audition can't look at this file 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:52.500 and then you might need to kind of 00:18:52.500 --> 00:18:55.160 (indistinct) 00:18:55.160 --> 00:19:02.000 So just basically make sure that you're saving everything 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:03.800 in this. 00:19:03.800 --> 00:19:05.840 Okay, let's see. 00:19:05.840 --> 00:19:09.920 So, let's see. 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:11.680 All right. 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:14.080 So selecting clips, 00:19:14.080 --> 00:19:16.040 just going to minimize this a little bit. 00:19:16.040 --> 00:19:17.680 Yeah, selecting clips you can just do 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:19.960 by literally clicking on them. 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:24.000 If you want to select more than one clip at once on a Mac, 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:26.320 you can just hit command 00:19:26.320 --> 00:19:27.760 and then you're getting multiple at once. 00:19:27.760 --> 00:19:30.400 I'm pretty sure that you see it's with a shift key. 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:36.120 Quick side note here, editing and Audition becomes 00:19:36.120 --> 00:19:39.760 a million times easier if you use keyboard shortcuts. 00:19:39.760 --> 00:19:42.120 Sometimes there isn't a crazy state shortcut 00:19:42.120 --> 00:19:44.240 for something that you want. 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:49.240 So if you find yourself kind of up in the menu bar a lot, 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:51.800 then you probably want to be adding some shortcuts. 00:19:51.800 --> 00:19:53.640 So let's see. 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:58.640 Let me stop the share now and show the full screen. 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:07.960 So you can see we do this. 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:15.760 So let's see. 00:20:15.760 --> 00:20:20.440 Edit keyboard shortcuts is the way to do this. 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:21.960 Up in this edit folder. 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:23.320 And here you can see all of the keys 00:20:23.320 --> 00:20:26.600 that already have shortcuts associated with them. 00:20:26.600 --> 00:20:29.920 So I've already mentioned the I and the O, for example. 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:32.680 But then there are a couple of shortcuts 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:35.640 that I really highly recommend you add. 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:37.840 My favorites are this and this. 00:20:37.840 --> 00:20:40.520 So they don't have to be W and E, that's just what I did. 00:20:40.520 --> 00:20:45.280 But I have W as select clips to end of selected track 00:20:45.280 --> 00:20:49.480 and E select clips to end of the entire session. 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:54.480 So let's close this here. 00:20:54.480 --> 00:20:57.800 So let's see. 00:20:57.800 --> 00:20:59.320 So I'm going to hit W. 00:20:59.320 --> 00:21:02.080 I'm going to select this track and hit W. 00:21:02.080 --> 00:21:05.000 And that's going to select all the clips that are in this track 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:06.920 from the playhead to the right. 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:09.960 Super, super useful if you've already edited things 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:11.720 to the right to be right next to each other. 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:12.800 They're exactly where you want them. 00:21:12.800 --> 00:21:14.680 But then you realize, oh, you have some dead space 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:17.560 at the beginning and you want to pull them all 00:21:17.560 --> 00:21:19.240 together to one side. 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:21.880 Or E, let's see. 00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:25.160 Yes, you select all the clips in the entire session 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:27.200 to the right of the playhead. 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:28.760 And then you can drag those all around together. 00:21:28.760 --> 00:21:31.080 So again, this is really great if you have 00:21:31.080 --> 00:21:33.360 dead space at the end, dead space at the beginning, 00:21:33.360 --> 00:21:35.680 or a couple of seconds in the middle, 00:21:35.680 --> 00:21:38.400 anything like that, two really, really useful commands. 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:41.640 You can also just get there by going to edit, 00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:44.880 select clips to end of session or start of session. 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:48.080 But it's just so much easier to do keyboard shortcuts. 00:21:48.080 --> 00:21:51.480 And if you're editing a lot, then it's really 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:55.480 going to save you time to have your favorites 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:58.960 kind of just easily at your fingertips. 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:03.480 OK, so let's see. 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:05.080 Talk to me about that. 00:22:05.080 --> 00:22:08.360 [INAUDIBLE] 00:22:08.360 --> 00:22:09.800 So yeah, as soon as you select a clip, 00:22:09.800 --> 00:22:12.480 you can just literally drag it around to wherever you want. 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:14.880 Very easy. 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:16.360 Now we should talk about cutting clips. 00:22:16.360 --> 00:22:18.960 So let me zoom in a little bit. 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:25.400 Put this down. 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:29.320 So if you want to just kind of shorten the end of the clip, 00:22:29.320 --> 00:22:33.040 you can hover your mouse right over the end 00:22:33.040 --> 00:22:36.320 until you see that little sign, that little bracket, 00:22:36.320 --> 00:22:39.920 and then just pull it to the side. 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:43.120 So that's great if you're just trying to do something 00:22:43.120 --> 00:22:45.880 on the edges. 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:47.200 But oftentimes, you're not wanting that. 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:49.400 You're wanting to cut out something in the middle. 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:53.320 So let's say I wanted to cut out solo this. 00:22:53.320 --> 00:22:55.960 Thank you so much for being here today. 00:22:55.960 --> 00:22:57.680 Yeah, let's say I wanted to cut out that. 00:22:57.680 --> 00:22:59.160 Thank you so much for being here today. 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:02.120 So there's a few different ways you can do this. 00:23:02.120 --> 00:23:04.520 You can use the razor tool. 00:23:04.520 --> 00:23:07.000 So to activate the razor tool, you 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:10.360 can either click the R key on your keyboard, 00:23:10.360 --> 00:23:14.640 and you'll see that this little razor guy just popped up here. 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:18.720 And then you can literally just click where you want to cut. 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:23.720 You could also click the razor yourself up here. 00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:26.240 And if you click it twice, then you're actually 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:29.600 going to be cutting all tools-- 00:23:29.600 --> 00:23:33.160 excuse me-- all tracks vertically up and down 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:34.440 from the point where the razor is. 00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:37.520 So even though it looks like I'm cutting just down here, 00:23:37.520 --> 00:23:39.000 it's actually cutting all of them at once. 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:41.360 So that can be useful, but you just 00:23:41.360 --> 00:23:45.240 want to be careful that you have the right razor on. 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:47.520 So you can use the razor. 00:23:47.520 --> 00:23:50.280 I actually don't love to use the razor personally, 00:23:50.280 --> 00:23:52.240 because when you are-- 00:23:55.720 --> 00:24:00.640 I need not personally to sacrifice with a touchpad or a mouse. 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:04.360 So if I might just move my hand a little bit accidentally, 00:24:04.360 --> 00:24:06.040 and then it's just not exactly where I want it, 00:24:06.040 --> 00:24:09.360 I prefer personally to just drag the playhead 00:24:09.360 --> 00:24:11.320 to exactly where I want it. 00:24:11.320 --> 00:24:13.440 And then when I'm totally sure the playhead's not 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:16.480 going to move on its own, then I can do-- 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:22.760 let's see-- I can go up here, edit, and-- 00:24:22.760 --> 00:24:25.320 sorry-- edit, click. 00:24:25.320 --> 00:24:27.520 And then split. 00:24:27.520 --> 00:24:30.000 And then it splits the clip right there. 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:33.920 Or you can just do, if you're on a Mac, command K. 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:34.600 Nice and easy. 00:24:34.600 --> 00:24:35.680 So either way works. 00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:38.080 There are about a million ways to be splitting clips. 00:24:38.080 --> 00:24:39.920 So let's just-- let's get out this. 00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:41.360 Thank you so much for bringing this today. 00:24:41.360 --> 00:24:47.960 Thank you so much for being here today to make sure 00:24:47.960 --> 00:24:50.520 that the track that I want is selected. 00:24:50.520 --> 00:24:54.560 Pull this right to the end, command K for splitting, 00:24:54.560 --> 00:24:57.200 and then-- 00:24:57.200 --> 00:25:02.360 I'm going to try to get the point down here to just before I 00:25:02.360 --> 00:25:04.600 say the thank you. 00:25:04.600 --> 00:25:05.960 All right, so you can think-- at this point, 00:25:05.960 --> 00:25:08.640 you can be-- you can actually see the waveform. 00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:10.920 And you can see where the-- 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:12.640 in the thank you starts. 00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:16.840 And so you can pull that right down to about there. 00:25:16.840 --> 00:25:22.600 And the play back, the playhead there, command K. 00:25:22.600 --> 00:25:24.880 And let's zoom out. 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:28.680 Let's take this and just drag it. 00:25:28.680 --> 00:25:32.080 And maybe just put those together 00:25:32.080 --> 00:25:34.240 so that that sounds good. 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:36.400 Buddy. 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:36.960 All right, yeah. 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:37.720 So hello, everybody. 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:39.080 It's a pretty abrupt transition. 00:25:39.080 --> 00:25:45.160 So I would maybe want to fade the end of that. 00:25:45.160 --> 00:25:48.360 Or add a breath there or something to disguise that. 00:25:48.360 --> 00:25:49.120 Yeah. 00:25:49.120 --> 00:25:49.800 Everybody-- 00:25:49.800 --> 00:25:52.360 I'm a little bit-- 00:25:52.360 --> 00:25:52.860 Yeah. 00:25:52.860 --> 00:25:53.360 Everybody-- 00:25:53.360 --> 00:25:55.160 In any case, I wouldn't probably actually 00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:57.240 want to be cutting out the thank you. 00:25:57.240 --> 00:25:58.920 This is a great real example. 00:25:58.920 --> 00:26:01.280 But that's how you cut. 00:26:01.280 --> 00:26:02.600 Make the same little smile. 00:26:02.600 --> 00:26:07.920 OK. 00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:10.720 So let's see. 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:12.720 I also wanted to just draw a little bit of attention 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:14.960 to this track down here. 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:17.240 This is the kind of master track. 00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:20.240 The-- looking at the entire mix at once. 00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:22.520 So it's basically auditions output 00:26:22.520 --> 00:26:24.960 where all of the tracks are mixed together. 00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:27.520 So you can make changes to the whole mix at once here, 00:26:27.520 --> 00:26:31.440 if you like, if you're going to add effects to this track. 00:26:31.440 --> 00:26:33.240 But that's a little bit more advanced. 00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:34.960 So we're not going to do that today. 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:38.440 But in case you're wondering, that's what that is. 00:26:38.440 --> 00:26:42.120 There's a default six tracks when you open up a new session, 00:26:42.120 --> 00:26:46.520 but you can easily make a new track just-- 00:26:46.520 --> 00:26:49.480 let's see. 00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:51.640 I think it's just 20. 00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:52.640 But let's see. 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:53.640 Move back. 00:26:53.640 --> 00:27:01.800 Insert. 00:27:01.800 --> 00:27:07.800 OK. 00:27:07.800 --> 00:27:08.800 I'm going to-- 00:27:08.800 --> 00:27:09.640 just a second. 00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:11.920 But in any case, yes, you can make as many new tracks 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:12.440 as you want. 00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:13.600 There's no limit. 00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:14.960 OK. 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:18.360 If you want to group clips together, 00:27:18.360 --> 00:27:21.920 you can highlight them together. 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:24.960 And then right click. 00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:29.000 And then scroll down here to groups, group clips. 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:33.320 And then that, you can see that they've changed color. 00:27:33.320 --> 00:27:39.680 And now you can drag those together. 00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:42.720 So let's zoom out here. 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:45.280 Yeah, so you can see that those are now highlighted together. 00:27:45.280 --> 00:27:47.320 And then when you drag them around, 00:27:47.320 --> 00:27:50.440 they move consecutively. 00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:51.960 So that's great. 00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:54.920 You can also ungroup them by doing the same thing. 00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:58.040 Great. 00:27:58.040 --> 00:28:00.280 And now it's back to normal. 00:28:00.280 --> 00:28:02.760 All right, excellent. 00:28:02.760 --> 00:28:05.840 It's also really useful to name tracks, just 00:28:05.840 --> 00:28:06.760 to keep track of things. 00:28:06.760 --> 00:28:08.240 And you could say, for example, you know, 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:13.080 narration, interview one. 00:28:13.080 --> 00:28:15.000 That's just as easy as double clicking here. 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:16.720 And then just adding a name. 00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:18.840 You could also add and track colors. 00:28:18.840 --> 00:28:21.880 That's really helpful for grouping things. 00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:26.400 I often like to have, for example, all the different takes 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:30.320 of my narration in one color. 00:28:30.320 --> 00:28:32.200 Then maybe all of my interviews with one person 00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:33.880 in a different color. 00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:36.000 You can't always put everything onto the same track. 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:38.800 Sometimes you are trying to work with different takes. 00:28:38.800 --> 00:28:44.600 And so, yeah, color coding can just be really useful. 00:28:44.600 --> 00:28:46.120 OK, let's see. 00:28:46.120 --> 00:28:52.080 All right, so let's talk a little bit about volume. 00:28:52.080 --> 00:28:59.200 So there are a couple different ways to look at volume. 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:02.600 This down here is the level of the entire master. 00:29:02.600 --> 00:29:06.640 So that's when all of the tracks are together, 00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:08.760 what is the volume that's getting outputted? 00:29:08.760 --> 00:29:11.120 It's measured in dB or decibels. 00:29:11.120 --> 00:29:15.080 So it goes all the way up to zero here. 00:29:15.080 --> 00:29:16.920 You never wanted to get that far. 00:29:16.920 --> 00:29:19.400 Once it's at zero, the audio is starting to click 00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:21.200 and getting distorted. 00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:23.960 That basically means that the sound is overwhelming the system 00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:27.240 and going beyond the maximum possible amplifier level. 00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:29.960 And you know that that's happening because the meter will turn red. 00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:33.800 So let's just look at how loud this is. 00:29:33.800 --> 00:29:36.240 All right, so yeah, so that didn't get all the way up to zero, 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:37.320 but it got pretty close. 00:29:37.320 --> 00:29:39.240 So that's a little too much. 00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:40.640 We don't want it to be quite that loud. 00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:42.000 So hello, everybody. 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:43.360 If we want to adjust that, I'm just 00:29:43.360 --> 00:29:46.160 going to make this a little bigger here. 00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:50.520 And zoom in on a little more. 00:29:50.520 --> 00:29:56.120 So we can actually just drag this circle right here. 00:29:56.120 --> 00:29:57.680 There's one on every track. 00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:01.480 And we can just drag that to the right if we want it to be louder 00:30:01.480 --> 00:30:06.320 and drag it to the left if we want it to be softer. 00:30:06.320 --> 00:30:08.520 So let's drag it a little to the left 00:30:08.520 --> 00:30:12.320 to see if that helps us avoid the red. 00:30:12.320 --> 00:30:13.680 It's a little louder. 00:30:13.680 --> 00:30:17.640 Let's do it a little more. 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:18.480 Yeah, there we go. 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:19.120 Hello, everybody. 00:30:19.120 --> 00:30:21.400 That's a pretty healthy level. 00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:25.040 In general, you want to be aiming for between negative 12 00:30:25.040 --> 00:30:29.280 and negative 9 dB. 00:30:29.280 --> 00:30:31.800 If you are too quiet, then it's just 00:30:31.800 --> 00:30:34.520 not going to be comfortable for the listener. 00:30:34.520 --> 00:30:36.680 They're not going to be able to hear what you're saying. 00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:38.440 So that's obviously something to avoid. 00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:42.440 But you're also losing some sound quality when it's too quiet. 00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:45.760 And if it's quiet and then the listener increases the volume, 00:30:45.760 --> 00:30:49.960 then you're going to get a sort of distorted version. 00:30:49.960 --> 00:30:52.600 OK, so yeah, so again, between negative 12 00:30:52.600 --> 00:30:56.160 and negative 9 is generally a good thing to shoot for. 00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:00.280 So if you're just going to look at how much-- 00:31:00.280 --> 00:31:02.600 just looking at the volume on one particular track, 00:31:02.600 --> 00:31:05.920 then you can actually just look right here. 00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:09.440 This is the volume meter on an individual track. 00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:11.560 Right now, we have this one track soloed, 00:31:11.560 --> 00:31:15.080 so it's going to be the same as this master level down here. 00:31:15.080 --> 00:31:16.240 So let's see. 00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:16.960 Yeah, so again-- 00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:18.600 Hello, everybody. 00:31:18.600 --> 00:31:20.160 Yeah, it's not going up to right now. 00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:23.560 But let's remove the solo. 00:31:23.560 --> 00:31:28.200 And let's look at this one for a second. 00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:31.120 Let's solo this one. 00:31:31.120 --> 00:31:32.480 Hello, and welcome to the Columbia-- 00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:35.080 And now, what's going to happen if we do both of them together? 00:31:35.080 --> 00:31:39.360 I'm guessing it'll be a little too high down here. 00:31:39.360 --> 00:31:39.960 Hello, is it? 00:31:39.960 --> 00:31:41.440 It's actually-- actually, that's not too bad. 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:43.080 That's not too bad. 00:31:43.080 --> 00:31:46.240 So we can keep that as is. 00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:48.360 But yes, so the easiest way to adjust volume 00:31:48.360 --> 00:31:50.640 is to start by-- 00:31:50.640 --> 00:31:52.720 you don't really want to do major volume adjustments 00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:57.000 until you have all of your tracks basically 00:31:57.000 --> 00:31:58.920 in put it into the mix. 00:31:58.920 --> 00:32:03.480 If you start to mix, before you have everything, 00:32:03.480 --> 00:32:05.960 then you might just need to do it all over again, 00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:08.760 because you don't really know necessarily 00:32:08.760 --> 00:32:11.000 what the range, the highest sounds you have, 00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:12.920 are going to be, what the lowest sounds are going to be. 00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:15.320 You don't really know how to adjust them to each other. 00:32:15.320 --> 00:32:18.280 So it's really good to just put all the files 00:32:18.280 --> 00:32:22.160 in before you're making the volume adjustments. 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:25.480 And then once you do have everything in, 00:32:25.480 --> 00:32:29.480 then yes, adjusting first with these little toggles, 00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:32.280 these circular toggles, is good. 00:32:32.280 --> 00:32:35.280 And then when you want to get more precise, 00:32:35.280 --> 00:32:39.520 because sometimes you don't want to adjust the volume 00:32:39.520 --> 00:32:41.080 of the entire track, you might just want 00:32:41.080 --> 00:32:44.560 to make a little adjustment here or there. 00:32:44.560 --> 00:32:47.560 For example, let's see. 00:32:47.560 --> 00:32:49.560 Let's see a little less. 00:32:49.560 --> 00:32:54.680 We solo this. 00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:57.440 Just do this for a second. 00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:59.600 Hello, and welcome to the Columbia University 00:32:59.600 --> 00:33:01.440 Adobe Audition Tutorial. 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:05.760 All right, so you can hear in this track 00:33:05.760 --> 00:33:07.400 a fan noise going on in the background. 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:10.040 Let's listen to that. 00:33:10.040 --> 00:33:14.720 [AUDIO OUT] 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:18.680 So I don't actually recommend-- 00:33:18.680 --> 00:33:20.280 I'm going to show you in a few minutes 00:33:20.280 --> 00:33:23.440 how to get that noise out of there, 00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:26.640 or at least minimize it in the track as a whole. 00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:28.280 And that's really what you want to do. 00:33:28.280 --> 00:33:31.680 But let's say just so that I can show you 00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:35.320 that you just want to minimize the volume while that's 00:33:35.320 --> 00:33:36.360 going on in the track. 00:33:36.360 --> 00:33:39.320 So yeah, so you highlight this. 00:33:39.320 --> 00:33:41.400 You have this yellow line. 00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:44.680 And that's basically showing you what the volume looks 00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:46.560 like the whole way through. 00:33:46.560 --> 00:33:47.960 So right now it's just steady because we 00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:51.400 haven't made any changes. 00:33:51.400 --> 00:33:57.640 If you want to make a change, you can click. 00:33:57.640 --> 00:34:00.400 And then you hit this dot. 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:02.600 You click again over here. 00:34:02.600 --> 00:34:04.920 And then I like to do a little click in the middle. 00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:09.000 And then you can just drag to either increase or decrease 00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:10.680 the volume. 00:34:10.680 --> 00:34:13.680 So these are just little markers. 00:34:13.680 --> 00:34:15.920 All right. 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:18.920 If you wanted to-- let's see, let me take those away. 00:34:18.920 --> 00:34:20.800 If you were just going to drag this up or down, 00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:25.200 you could also change the volume on the entire clip like that. 00:34:25.200 --> 00:34:28.240 But because we just want to take away the fan noise right 00:34:28.240 --> 00:34:30.280 here, we're going to do it this way. 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:33.640 So I like to put two little guys next to each other here 00:34:33.640 --> 00:34:35.040 and here. 00:34:35.040 --> 00:34:37.800 And then drag it down. 00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:42.120 Let's just say, yeah, 14.7. 00:34:42.120 --> 00:34:43.520 And then match it over here. 00:34:43.520 --> 00:34:50.480 And so then it's basically going to sound like a slow-- 00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:53.600 like actually a very quick fade here and then a quick fade 00:34:53.600 --> 00:34:55.040 in on the other side. 00:34:55.040 --> 00:34:56.560 So let's see what that sounds like. 00:34:56.560 --> 00:35:00.720 Addition tutorial. 00:35:00.720 --> 00:35:02.560 So I hope you can hear-- 00:35:02.560 --> 00:35:03.520 Today we're going to-- 00:35:03.520 --> 00:35:06.720 The volume as a whole kind of quickly lowers 00:35:06.720 --> 00:35:07.720 and then quickly comes back. 00:35:07.720 --> 00:35:08.400 This is two again. 00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:13.680 Tutorial. 00:35:13.680 --> 00:35:17.280 Now that does sound pretty unnatural because that's just 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:20.240 not how audio works in the real world. 00:35:20.240 --> 00:35:22.800 You don't have suddenly all the noise in the universe 00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:24.400 decreasing and then coming right back. 00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:27.160 So that's why this isn't a great method for taking out 00:35:27.160 --> 00:35:28.760 background noise. 00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:31.640 But if you have a lot of layer tracks, 00:35:31.640 --> 00:35:34.600 sometimes you can use that. 00:35:34.600 --> 00:35:36.280 It's much more subtle. 00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:40.000 Or if you're trying to fade in and out, that can be useful. 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:43.240 If you want to just get rid of one little postive, 00:35:43.240 --> 00:35:45.640 for example, if you have a really loud pee 00:35:45.640 --> 00:35:48.400 or if someone just shouts really loudly. 00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:52.280 If you have very short isolated unfortunate noises 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:54.720 that you don't want, that can be a great method 00:35:54.720 --> 00:35:55.840 to get rid of them. 00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:58.360 Or if you want to make a subtle change and let's say there's 00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:03.880 just a couple of words, maybe I'm mumbling right here. 00:36:03.880 --> 00:36:04.480 Today we're going to-- 00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:05.000 Let's say-- 00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:07.280 --the basics of how we felt like I was mumbling there. 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:10.360 And we wanted to just increase the volume a little bit. 00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:12.880 We could just do that. 00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:16.280 And again, just pull that up a little bit. 00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:17.640 Subtle tea is generally your friend 00:36:17.640 --> 00:36:19.840 because we don't want anything to sound unnatural. 00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:22.360 So I just pulled it up a little bit there. 00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:28.480 And I wonder if it'll even be noticeable. 00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:30.360 Today we're going to learn the basics of how to make it-- 00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:30.860 Yeah, OK. 00:36:30.860 --> 00:36:31.360 That is noticeable. 00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:34.240 Maybe a little too noticeable. 00:36:34.240 --> 00:36:38.320 So if I were actually going to be doing this professionally, 00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:40.640 I would make it a much smaller change. 00:36:40.640 --> 00:36:44.000 But in any case, let's take that out. 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:47.200 So fading. 00:36:47.200 --> 00:36:50.120 You can either fade just like I said 00:36:50.120 --> 00:36:53.920 with creating these markers at the end 00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:55.520 and sort of dragging them down. 00:36:55.520 --> 00:36:58.640 Now you can see here, once you get to the bottom, 00:36:58.640 --> 00:37:00.200 then the volume is completely gone. 00:37:00.200 --> 00:37:02.560 So if you want to completely fade out by the end of the clip, 00:37:02.560 --> 00:37:04.480 then you can do that. 00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:10.760 But there's also this very handy little automatic fade. 00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:15.200 So it's this top box on the right. 00:37:15.200 --> 00:37:16.800 And you can just pull it. 00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:20.120 This is just much more precise, as you can see. 00:37:20.120 --> 00:37:23.280 If I were going to try to mimic this nice curve 00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:25.520 with all these markers, it would just take a long time 00:37:25.520 --> 00:37:27.600 to do that manually. 00:37:27.600 --> 00:37:32.960 So let me just zoom out a little bit. 00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:34.800 So this can be-- this is generally the easiest 00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:36.520 way to do a fade in or out. 00:37:36.520 --> 00:37:41.040 And if you kind of just pull your cursor up and down 00:37:41.040 --> 00:37:46.160 and hold it, then you can adjust the shape. 00:37:46.160 --> 00:37:51.440 Really nice and slow if you want or really quick. 00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:52.720 All right. 00:37:52.720 --> 00:37:53.720 Zoom out. 00:37:53.720 --> 00:37:56.160 OK. 00:37:56.160 --> 00:38:01.200 So let's see. 00:38:01.200 --> 00:38:02.200 Yeah. 00:38:02.200 --> 00:38:07.160 So you want your volume throughout the mix to be consistent. 00:38:07.160 --> 00:38:08.600 That's the most important thing. 00:38:08.600 --> 00:38:11.640 You never want the listener to be suddenly 00:38:11.640 --> 00:38:16.160 overwhelmed with an increase in noise in the way 00:38:16.160 --> 00:38:20.200 that you maybe were listening to a piece of orchestral music 00:38:20.200 --> 00:38:22.360 or something or mixing an orchestral piece. 00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:26.960 But definitely not if you're just doing a podcast. 00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:27.440 OK. 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:29.320 Let's see. 00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:29.800 Oh, yes. 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:35.200 I also wanted to point out that if you solo this track, 00:38:35.200 --> 00:38:39.040 if you drag clips together like this and they overlap, 00:38:39.040 --> 00:38:41.160 it creates an automatic crossfade. 00:38:41.160 --> 00:38:43.840 So let's just listen to that. 00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:44.440 Zoom in. 00:38:51.040 --> 00:38:52.320 So what does this sound like? 00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:54.040 Oh, that's just a little weird. 00:38:54.040 --> 00:39:02.840 So we have everybody-- 00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:06.080 All right. 00:39:06.080 --> 00:39:07.880 So there's no reason you would actually 00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:11.600 want these to be crossfaded, but just to show you. 00:39:11.600 --> 00:39:14.960 If we do that, then you'll hear a bit of a fade in and out. 00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:15.760 Everybody testing? 00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:16.400 One, two, three. 00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:17.120 Everybody testing? 00:39:17.120 --> 00:39:17.620 Yeah. 00:39:17.620 --> 00:39:20.040 So if we didn't do that, then you 00:39:20.040 --> 00:39:22.160 would hear a really abrupt cutout. 00:39:22.160 --> 00:39:23.040 So let's see. 00:39:23.040 --> 00:39:25.320 Let's drag this down, for example. 00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:28.040 Solo this. 00:39:28.040 --> 00:39:30.000 So we just completely layered them on top of each other 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:30.840 like this. 00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:32.520 It would sound pretty weird. 00:39:32.520 --> 00:39:34.160 Everybody testing? 00:39:34.160 --> 00:39:35.320 You're often going to-- 00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:40.920 you might hear a clip when the one track ends 00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:42.760 and the other one begins. 00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:45.840 And so that's another reason to have a fade, 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:49.680 because a fade can minimize that clipping or full pop sound. 00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:52.200 Which definitely sounds unnatural. 00:39:52.200 --> 00:39:54.240 OK. 00:39:54.240 --> 00:39:58.600 So sometimes you want to edit someone's speech a little bit 00:39:58.600 --> 00:39:59.960 so that they sound cleaner. 00:39:59.960 --> 00:40:03.640 Maybe you want to get rid of some ums, some breaths, 00:40:03.640 --> 00:40:04.760 something like that. 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:07.600 That's definitely acceptable, but you never 00:40:07.600 --> 00:40:09.720 want to do it too much. 00:40:09.720 --> 00:40:12.120 Or else the person will sound unnatural. 00:40:12.120 --> 00:40:15.200 So humans do take breaths in before they speak, 00:40:15.200 --> 00:40:17.520 and they're often audible. 00:40:17.520 --> 00:40:19.320 And even though we're not registering the fact 00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:21.320 that we're hearing them when we're listening to someone, 00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:23.800 we will often notice that something is wrong if too many 00:40:23.800 --> 00:40:25.000 of them are taken out. 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:29.240 So really you should just learn to trust your own ear 00:40:29.240 --> 00:40:32.040 when you're listening to something, when you're editing it, 00:40:32.040 --> 00:40:34.720 and then decide whether or not it sounds natural to you. 00:40:34.720 --> 00:40:38.000 So don't over edit. 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:41.160 A good rule of thumb is to only edit out 00:40:41.160 --> 00:40:43.160 what are often called leading breaths, 00:40:43.160 --> 00:40:45.840 or the breaths that occur immediately before you 00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:47.640 or anyone else is heard speaking. 00:40:47.640 --> 00:40:51.160 And then also editing out the quote unquote "trailing breaths" 00:40:51.160 --> 00:40:52.560 or the breaths that are immediately 00:40:52.560 --> 00:40:55.560 after the last words spoken by you or anybody else. 00:40:55.560 --> 00:40:57.640 So I think we have some of those in here. 00:40:57.640 --> 00:40:58.840 See? 00:40:58.840 --> 00:40:59.600 Hello and-- 00:40:59.600 --> 00:41:01.760 Yeah, OK. 00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:03.800 That's a big, medium breath. 00:41:03.800 --> 00:41:09.360 So let's actually really zoom in on this guy. 00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:09.880 Right here. 00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:15.280 Hello and-- 00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:17.920 Yeah, so that's a leading breath. 00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:20.800 So if we wanted to cut that out, if we come down here, 00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:27.960 and maybe I'll hit R for razor, just click that. 00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:30.920 Click T to get out of razor. 00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:32.880 And then I can cut that. 00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:33.600 Hello and welcome. 00:41:33.600 --> 00:41:34.100 Great. 00:41:34.100 --> 00:41:37.680 So that sounds very abrupt, especially 00:41:37.680 --> 00:41:39.600 because we do still have some of the background noise. 00:41:39.600 --> 00:41:42.960 So I'm just going to pull that a little bit further back. 00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:44.880 And then I'm going to add a little fade 00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:47.000 and hopefully that sounds better. 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:48.440 Hello and welcome to the-- 00:41:48.440 --> 00:41:49.400 Hello and welcome to-- 00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:50.400 Yeah, that's fine. 00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:51.600 That's fine. 00:41:51.600 --> 00:41:53.680 So that's taking a breath. 00:41:53.680 --> 00:41:54.880 OK. 00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:57.680 Zoom out here. 00:41:57.680 --> 00:41:58.720 All right. 00:41:58.720 --> 00:42:00.800 Sometimes you can actually use breaths 00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:03.760 to make cuts in other places sound smoother. 00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:06.240 So let's say that you're cutting out part 00:42:06.240 --> 00:42:08.240 of the middle of a diatribe that someone went on 00:42:08.240 --> 00:42:10.120 because it's just too long. 00:42:10.120 --> 00:42:13.040 Sometimes that cut can sound really abrupt. 00:42:13.040 --> 00:42:14.440 I was talking about earlier how there 00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:16.240 can be a little clip sometimes when you're cutting things 00:42:16.240 --> 00:42:17.640 together. 00:42:17.640 --> 00:42:19.520 But if you copy and paste a breath that 00:42:19.520 --> 00:42:23.560 was elsewhere in the mix to right where that cut is happening 00:42:23.560 --> 00:42:25.000 and maybe make a little extra space, 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:28.680 you can often smooth it out and make the cut pretty much 00:42:28.680 --> 00:42:30.280 impossible to notice. 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:32.160 So again, this is a situation where 00:42:32.160 --> 00:42:34.360 you'd want to use your ears and just go with whatever 00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:37.160 sounds the most natural. 00:42:37.160 --> 00:42:40.920 I like to sometimes, if I'm finding a really good audible 00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:42.640 breath that sounds particularly natural 00:42:42.640 --> 00:42:44.160 because it sounds too weird just to cut it 00:42:44.160 --> 00:42:46.760 and put it towards the end of the recording or something 00:42:46.760 --> 00:42:50.680 and just keep it for later in case I want to draw on it. 00:42:50.680 --> 00:42:52.360 And then, yeah, you also might want to cut out 00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:56.440 ums and uhs and other filler hesitation words. 00:42:56.440 --> 00:42:57.520 So feel free to do that. 00:42:57.520 --> 00:43:00.280 But you don't generally want to clean up someone's speech 00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:05.320 so much that it no longer sounds authentic, 00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:09.680 especially if you are producing a work of journalism. 00:43:09.680 --> 00:43:12.120 Ethically, you want to try to preserve someone's voice 00:43:12.120 --> 00:43:15.080 as much as possible. 00:43:15.080 --> 00:43:16.640 All right. 00:43:16.640 --> 00:43:19.520 So yeah, let's zoom all the way out here. 00:43:19.520 --> 00:43:21.360 OK. 00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:26.680 So I'm going to just really briefly touch on EQ and compression. 00:43:26.680 --> 00:43:28.880 EQ is equalizer. 00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:31.440 These are a little bit more advanced editing tools, 00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:35.040 so I don't want to get too much into it. 00:43:35.040 --> 00:43:39.080 But basically, equalizer is adjusting the volume 00:43:39.080 --> 00:43:42.720 of individual frequencies in a mix. 00:43:42.720 --> 00:43:44.400 And a frequency is just a pitch. 00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:48.160 So for example, the human voice, especially-- 00:43:48.160 --> 00:43:50.520 yeah, so my female human voice is 00:43:50.520 --> 00:43:57.680 going to be kind of centered around frequency 00:43:57.680 --> 00:44:00.560 than say which is often, especially 00:44:00.560 --> 00:44:03.920 like a low rumbling wind, might be focused 00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:05.160 on a much lower frequency. 00:44:05.160 --> 00:44:08.000 And so if you want to minimize one of those sounds, 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:11.000 you can actually do that by going in and adjusting the EQ. 00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:13.520 Compression is the process of reducing 00:44:13.520 --> 00:44:15.960 the dynamic range of a sound. 00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:18.640 So that is basically used to make certain sounds 00:44:18.640 --> 00:44:22.000 in a mixed pop and feel more forward and present. 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:24.560 And really what I'm just going to say 00:44:24.560 --> 00:44:26.600 for in terms of using these right now is just 00:44:26.600 --> 00:44:28.400 that you can mess around with the presets. 00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:31.320 It's too much to get into in this short tutorial. 00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:33.320 But let's say-- 00:44:33.320 --> 00:44:34.760 yeah, all of these are under effects. 00:44:34.760 --> 00:44:40.760 Let's say we want to add a bit of an effect to my voice here. 00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:42.040 Let's actually-- let's move it. 00:44:42.040 --> 00:44:46.760 So let's click I right here. 00:44:46.760 --> 00:44:50.960 And O right here, drag the playhead. 00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:53.960 Now this is just going to be looping. 00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:55.160 Hello and welcome to the-- 00:44:55.160 --> 00:44:55.840 --the little tutorial. 00:44:55.840 --> 00:44:57.040 --thing down here. 00:44:57.040 --> 00:44:58.040 OK, now it's looping. 00:44:58.040 --> 00:45:01.920 So let's just try out-- 00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:03.160 yeah, let's try out. 00:45:03.160 --> 00:45:05.160 Actually, I'm going to show you that a little bit of a blaster 00:45:05.160 --> 00:45:05.660 later. 00:45:05.660 --> 00:45:08.440 So let's just try out a compression. 00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:10.960 So amplitude and compression. 00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:13.240 Amplitude-- so again, because this is ultimately 00:45:13.240 --> 00:45:15.040 talking about in volume. 00:45:15.040 --> 00:45:18.960 Amplitude-- maybe this is getting a little bit too 00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:20.520 into the nitty-gritty physics of the sound. 00:45:20.520 --> 00:45:25.640 But amplitude is the size of the sound wave. 00:45:25.640 --> 00:45:32.160 And volume is really the perceived loudness. 00:45:32.160 --> 00:45:35.600 And amplitude is what it actually looks like. 00:45:35.600 --> 00:45:38.560 So anyway, we're coming down to amplitude and compression. 00:45:38.560 --> 00:45:42.400 Let's go to multiband compressor. 00:45:42.400 --> 00:45:46.920 OK, so let's listen to just how it sounds normally. 00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:49.360 And welcome to the Columbia University Adobe Audition-- 00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:52.800 So let's say we want it to pop in some sort of way. 00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:54.600 Yeah, so they have all these great presets. 00:45:54.600 --> 00:45:57.240 And you can literally just try out different things. 00:45:57.240 --> 00:46:01.000 Let's see what broadcast sounds like. 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:03.880 Hello, and welcome to the Columbia University Adobe Audition 00:46:03.880 --> 00:46:04.360 Talk Tour. 00:46:04.360 --> 00:46:05.920 It sounds louder. 00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:08.720 And then if you're compressing-- 00:46:08.720 --> 00:46:10.800 often what you're trying to do when you're compressing 00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:14.640 is you're amplifying just one specific part of the sound. 00:46:14.640 --> 00:46:17.440 And then if you have other sounds going on, 00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:19.800 this is a little bit more relevant to music mixing. 00:46:19.800 --> 00:46:23.200 But if you have maybe a violin, maybe you 00:46:23.200 --> 00:46:25.320 want to make the higher end of that pop. 00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:27.480 And maybe if you have a saxophone, 00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:29.840 you want to make the alto range pop a little bit. 00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:32.280 And you're just trying to create space, 00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:34.800 carve out space in the mix so that each one of them 00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:37.560 can feel present and heard. 00:46:37.560 --> 00:46:39.200 But it can get a little complicated. 00:46:39.200 --> 00:46:41.680 So if I were you, I would just mess around here. 00:46:41.680 --> 00:46:42.680 Have you guitar? 00:46:42.680 --> 00:46:44.400 That's probably going to sound interesting on a voice. 00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:46.560 Let's try. 00:46:46.560 --> 00:46:48.120 Hello, and welcome to the Columbia University-- 00:46:48.120 --> 00:46:49.800 Just to use the artistry. 00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:50.120 Great. 00:46:50.120 --> 00:46:51.240 OK. 00:46:51.240 --> 00:46:52.160 OK, excellent. 00:46:52.160 --> 00:46:54.880 So that's that. 00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:59.520 So again, you can just kind of mess around with things 00:46:59.520 --> 00:47:02.120 and then whatever sounds right to you 00:47:02.120 --> 00:47:06.120 is probably going to sound right to a listener. 00:47:06.120 --> 00:47:08.960 OK, so then now let's talk about minimizing background 00:47:08.960 --> 00:47:09.480 noise. 00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:12.960 So we have this piece of tape here 00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:16.760 that has this really ugly fan sound in the background 00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:18.000 and also kind of a hissing. 00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:25.200 So again, this is going to be different than just trying 00:47:25.200 --> 00:47:27.960 to minimize the volume as a whole. 00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:31.040 Because this is when you have this fan sound going. 00:47:31.040 --> 00:47:34.600 It's particularly noticeable here when I'm not speaking, 00:47:34.600 --> 00:47:36.680 but it's happening the whole time. 00:47:36.680 --> 00:47:40.200 So you can't just reduce the volume to get rid of it. 00:47:40.200 --> 00:47:42.720 OK, so let's see. 00:47:42.720 --> 00:47:45.320 Basically, one term that you should know 00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:47.360 is called a noise floor. 00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:50.040 That's kind of the shushing that you hear 00:47:50.040 --> 00:47:52.440 when you turn up any recorder loud enough. 00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:55.200 Literally, every recorder has a noise floor. 00:47:55.200 --> 00:47:58.920 That's just the sound that naturally happens 00:47:58.920 --> 00:48:00.760 when the recording is going on. 00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:02.440 It's not even the sound of a room. 00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:03.520 That's a room tone. 00:48:03.520 --> 00:48:06.240 It's just literally the sound of the recorder itself. 00:48:06.240 --> 00:48:07.920 There's just a processing itself. 00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:09.520 Makes a little bit of a noise. 00:48:09.520 --> 00:48:12.520 So there are sort of some ways to get rid of that. 00:48:12.520 --> 00:48:14.760 There's also some ways to get rid of the room tone. 00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:17.760 The room tone in this case is the fan. 00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:19.480 So let's see. 00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:22.240 There are a couple of things we can do here. 00:48:22.240 --> 00:48:26.760 So let's try what's called a parametric equalizer. 00:48:26.760 --> 00:48:28.720 So this is a form of EQ. 00:48:28.720 --> 00:48:33.320 So it's good if you want to remove a sound that is consistent 00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:37.400 and that is occurring on the high end or the low end. 00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:38.400 And you want to minimize it. 00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:44.400 So let's just-- 00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:47.920 I hear-- oh, here. 00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:49.600 So you can hear a little bit of just the fan 00:48:49.600 --> 00:48:52.440 and a little bit of the fan in the voice. 00:48:52.440 --> 00:49:00.440 Let's go to-- 00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:02.440 let's move this a little bit. 00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:03.800 OK, edit. 00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:09.080 I'm sorry, effects, filter and EQ, parametric equalizer. 00:49:09.080 --> 00:49:14.120 So if we wanted to take out the high end, 00:49:14.120 --> 00:49:16.880 then we could do LP. 00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:18.680 So that's a low-pass filter. 00:49:18.680 --> 00:49:20.840 If we wanted to take out the low end, 00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:23.720 we can come down here and select HP. 00:49:23.720 --> 00:49:24.920 It's a low-pass filter. 00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:27.520 So in this case, there is a bit of a hissing going on, 00:49:27.520 --> 00:49:30.600 which would be that higher-end frequency-wise. 00:49:30.600 --> 00:49:32.080 But there's also this fan, and that's really 00:49:32.080 --> 00:49:33.000 what I'm concerned about. 00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:35.200 So we're going to focus on the HP. 00:49:35.200 --> 00:49:36.600 So I'm highlighting that. 00:49:36.600 --> 00:49:38.480 Let's-- are we doing the thing? 00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:39.400 Let's see. 00:49:39.400 --> 00:49:42.920 Here we are. 00:49:42.920 --> 00:49:44.520 OK. 00:49:44.520 --> 00:49:45.000 All right. 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:47.160 I think hopefully you can hear that. 00:49:47.160 --> 00:49:48.160 OK, so let's-- 00:49:48.160 --> 00:49:49.560 Today we're going to learn-- 00:49:49.560 --> 00:49:54.480 Basically, just pull this HP, this high-pass filter. 00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:57.040 And the more that we pull it, the more 00:49:57.040 --> 00:49:59.880 it's going to take out the frequency range. 00:49:59.880 --> 00:50:03.400 So if it's down here, then all of these frequencies are loud. 00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:04.480 This is the lower end. 00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:05.480 This is the higher end. 00:50:05.480 --> 00:50:07.960 But if we're pulling it this way, 00:50:07.960 --> 00:50:10.040 then we're removing everything to the left. 00:50:10.040 --> 00:50:12.400 So let's see what happens when we're pulling time. 00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:18.880 [VIDEO PLAYBACK] 00:50:18.880 --> 00:50:22.400 - Today we're going to learn-- 00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:25.800 Today we're going to learn-- 00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:27.200 Today we're going to learn-- 00:50:27.200 --> 00:50:29.920 OK, so if you might want to turn up your volume a little bit 00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:34.280 here, but if you do, then you should be able to hear-- 00:50:34.280 --> 00:50:36.600 there is actually a decrease in the noise of that fan. 00:50:36.600 --> 00:50:38.920 You can still hear it, unfortunately. 00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:40.920 And there's no-- via this method, 00:50:40.920 --> 00:50:42.440 there's no way to completely get rid of it 00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:45.800 because the frequencies of the fan are over-- 00:50:45.800 --> 00:50:47.680 they're interacting with my voice. 00:50:47.680 --> 00:50:50.640 But you are minimizing it, which is great. 00:50:50.640 --> 00:50:53.080 If you pull this up too much, then you're actually 00:50:53.080 --> 00:50:54.800 going to hear some distortion in my voice. 00:50:54.800 --> 00:50:57.240 Because yeah, we're minimizing some of the frequencies that 00:50:57.240 --> 00:50:58.640 are also in my voice. 00:50:58.640 --> 00:51:01.400 So let's try it here, for example. 00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:02.560 This is probably a little better. 00:51:02.560 --> 00:51:09.560 - Today we're going to learn-- 00:51:09.560 --> 00:51:11.840 Today we're going to learn-- 00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:15.160 - OK, so yeah, right here you're not hearing-- 00:51:15.160 --> 00:51:17.360 you're not hearing much of an adjustment to my voice, 00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:19.760 but you're definitely hearing a reduction in the noise 00:51:19.760 --> 00:51:20.280 of the fan. 00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:23.160 But if we were going to put it up here-- 00:51:23.160 --> 00:51:25.520 - Today we're going to learn-- 00:51:25.520 --> 00:51:28.240 - Yeah, you can hear that now we're only really hearing 00:51:28.240 --> 00:51:29.640 the higher frequency range of the voice, 00:51:29.640 --> 00:51:31.360 and now the frequency of the distortion is distorted. 00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:36.520 So OK, so let's just put it down here. 00:51:36.520 --> 00:51:36.880 - OK. 00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:37.760 - Today we're going to learn-- 00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:38.120 - Keep that on. 00:51:38.120 --> 00:51:40.360 - And if you wanted to, we can also take it off. 00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:42.600 - Today we're going to learn-- 00:51:42.600 --> 00:51:43.760 - Pause that. 00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:44.800 - Today we're going-- 00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:45.800 - Great, so that's that. 00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:52.200 When you're adding an effect on the track, 00:51:52.200 --> 00:51:55.160 it's going to come down here, and there's 00:51:55.160 --> 00:51:56.720 going to be this nice little list. 00:51:56.720 --> 00:51:59.760 So we did this compressor earlier. 00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:01.120 Let's actually turn that off. 00:52:01.120 --> 00:52:03.280 We don't need that anymore. 00:52:03.280 --> 00:52:07.480 In fact, we can either turn it off 00:52:07.480 --> 00:52:09.640 if we want to be able to turn it back on, 00:52:09.640 --> 00:52:11.880 or we can just delete it. 00:52:11.880 --> 00:52:13.000 We can select effects. 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:14.200 Great. 00:52:14.200 --> 00:52:17.000 You can also drag them around. 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:19.880 OK, so we've got the equalizer. 00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:21.560 Let's actually take that off as well. 00:52:21.560 --> 00:52:26.520 Now another method that you can use-- 00:52:26.520 --> 00:52:29.280 if you just want to generally minimize background noise, 00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:31.520 though, you're not trying to just take out something 00:52:31.520 --> 00:52:33.880 on the lower, the high end, but you're generally 00:52:33.880 --> 00:52:34.680 wanting to minimize it. 00:52:34.680 --> 00:52:38.280 So let's de-noise. 00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:44.440 So coming back up to effects, noise reduction restoration, 00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:47.560 and de-noise. 00:52:47.560 --> 00:52:50.000 Actually, we want to have this input now. 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:51.400 Put here again and move that. 00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:58.280 All right, de-noise. 00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:01.040 - Today we're going to learn-- 00:53:01.040 --> 00:53:03.920 - So now we can literally just drag this around. 00:53:04.680 --> 00:53:05.720 - Today we're going to learn-- 00:53:05.720 --> 00:53:08.040 - Down here, we're not taking anything out. 00:53:08.040 --> 00:53:08.880 - Today we're going to learn-- 00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:09.880 - So you can still hear it a bit, 00:53:09.880 --> 00:53:11.440 and then the more that you drag it up. 00:53:11.440 --> 00:53:12.280 - Today we're going to learn-- 00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:12.800 - Better it is. 00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:14.760 So that's a really great method. 00:53:14.760 --> 00:53:16.000 - Today we're going to learn-- 00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:19.960 - Yeah, that's again just generally helping 00:53:19.960 --> 00:53:23.360 to get rid of that background noise. 00:53:23.360 --> 00:53:27.600 Another great one is this is kind of the best option 00:53:27.600 --> 00:53:29.920 if you want the software to automatically-- 00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:33.160 I'm going to actually drag the volume up. 00:53:33.160 --> 00:53:36.800 So hopefully that'll be easier for us to hear 00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:37.800 when these change to happen. 00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:38.300 Let's see. 00:53:38.300 --> 00:53:43.240 Yes, that's much better. 00:53:43.240 --> 00:53:44.760 OK. 00:53:44.760 --> 00:53:48.160 If you want the software to automatically adjust a noise 00:53:48.160 --> 00:53:52.400 problem, adjusting it to your unique problem, 00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:54.920 your unique circumstances, then one great kind of check-- 00:53:54.920 --> 00:53:57.400 [AUDIO OUT] 00:53:57.400 --> 00:53:59.400 [INAUDIBLE] 00:53:59.400 --> 00:54:02.840 And again, do the I and the O looping. 00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:05.840 Come up here to-- 00:54:05.840 --> 00:54:07.840 [AUDIO OUT] 00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:10.680 [INAUDIBLE] 00:54:10.680 --> 00:54:15.400 Come up here to FX, noise reduction restoration. 00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:16.000 Oh, I'm sorry. 00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:18.760 For this, we need to actually be in the waveform mode. 00:54:18.760 --> 00:54:20.640 So danger, danger. 00:54:20.640 --> 00:54:23.680 It's going to make permanent changes to the waveform, 00:54:23.680 --> 00:54:25.600 but it also can be very useful. 00:54:25.600 --> 00:54:26.800 So let's do that. 00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:29.440 [AUDIO OUT] 00:54:29.440 --> 00:54:31.040 Good thing. 00:54:31.040 --> 00:54:31.720 OK. 00:54:31.720 --> 00:54:35.280 FX, noise reduction and restoration. 00:54:35.280 --> 00:54:37.600 And we're actually going to capture noise print. 00:54:37.600 --> 00:54:41.400 Actually, I'm sorry. 00:54:41.400 --> 00:54:44.440 Let's do just this portion right here that 00:54:44.440 --> 00:54:46.800 has the background noise. 00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:49.520 FX, noise print. 00:54:49.520 --> 00:54:54.160 And now Audition A is remembering this background noise. 00:54:54.160 --> 00:54:59.160 And we're going to go back up here. 00:54:59.160 --> 00:55:04.520 And we're going to go to Noise Reduction Process. 00:55:04.520 --> 00:55:09.000 And it's actually going to automatically take out that print. 00:55:09.000 --> 00:55:12.160 So let's do this. 00:55:12.160 --> 00:55:12.720 OK, yeah. 00:55:12.720 --> 00:55:16.800 So you can really only just hear a tiny little case at the top. 00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:19.040 The fan is actually pretty gone. 00:55:19.040 --> 00:55:24.120 So if we want to now select all, which you can do with Command A, 00:55:24.120 --> 00:55:31.680 we come up here and make that happen on the entire track. 00:55:31.680 --> 00:55:33.960 So apply. 00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:37.000 Hello, and welcome to the Columbia University Adobe Audition 00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:37.560 Tutorial. 00:55:37.560 --> 00:55:39.880 Yes, you really can't hear that fan anymore. 00:55:39.880 --> 00:55:42.880 My voice doesn't sound 100% natural, 00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:44.880 so I wouldn't necessarily recommend-- 00:55:44.880 --> 00:55:47.760 you can basically toggle it. 00:55:47.760 --> 00:55:49.840 If you right here, it's at 100%. 00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:51.960 So we're reducing that noise print by 100%. 00:55:51.960 --> 00:55:53.640 But I wouldn't necessarily recommend that. 00:55:53.640 --> 00:55:54.680 Let's try 70. 00:55:54.680 --> 00:55:58.400 To learn the basics of how to edit a podcast in Adobe Audition. 00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:03.920 Hello, and welcome to the Columbia University Adobe 00:56:03.920 --> 00:56:05.000 Audition Tutorial. 00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:06.320 Yeah, so you can just move this around. 00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:07.640 You can move this around as well. 00:56:07.640 --> 00:56:09.440 Today, we're going to learn the basics of how 00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:12.920 to edit a podcast in Adobe Audition. 00:56:12.920 --> 00:56:15.520 Until it sounds natural. 00:56:15.520 --> 00:56:22.000 OK, so yes, we've just permanently changed that recording. 00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:24.160 So again, just good to be very careful 00:56:24.160 --> 00:56:25.480 and get another reason to make sure 00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:29.920 that you have originals of all of your files saved hereby 00:56:29.920 --> 00:56:32.080 so that if you do make a change, you 00:56:32.080 --> 00:56:34.800 can bring back the original version. 00:56:34.800 --> 00:56:37.720 So the unfortunate truth is that there's really only so much 00:56:37.720 --> 00:56:39.560 you can do to remove background noise that 00:56:39.560 --> 00:56:41.680 exists in a recording without reducing 00:56:41.680 --> 00:56:44.960 the quality of the sounds that you actually want in there. 00:56:44.960 --> 00:56:46.560 So the best thing you can do is just 00:56:46.560 --> 00:56:49.000 to make sure that you're getting the cleanest possible audio 00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:52.400 when you're recording in the first place. 00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:55.680 OK, just a couple little terms and things 00:56:55.680 --> 00:56:57.160 I want to make sure you know about. 00:56:57.160 --> 00:56:59.840 So if you're making a podcast, you 00:56:59.840 --> 00:57:03.800 might be asked to choose quote unquote "selects." 00:57:03.800 --> 00:57:06.760 Selects are basically a few minutes worth of material 00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:10.480 from the audio that you have that are particularly compelling 00:57:10.480 --> 00:57:11.760 or demonstrate a point. 00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:17.800 So they can be used to show a boss or someone else 00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:20.600 an update on what you've been working on, 00:57:20.600 --> 00:57:23.240 maybe show some of the best of the material you have, 00:57:23.240 --> 00:57:25.680 maybe pitch a story, something like that. 00:57:25.680 --> 00:57:27.960 It's series of clips that are often unrelated. 00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:28.960 You're not creating a scene. 00:57:28.960 --> 00:57:30.800 You're just choosing the best of what you have. 00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:32.960 It's a few minutes of the best of what you have. 00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:35.600 So that's really if you're creating selects, 00:57:35.600 --> 00:57:39.160 you're just going to be putting all of your favorite tracks 00:57:39.160 --> 00:57:41.080 together, making sure it's not too long, 00:57:41.080 --> 00:57:44.080 and then exporting those together. 00:57:44.080 --> 00:57:45.840 Another thing you might be asked to make 00:57:45.840 --> 00:57:48.440 when you're creating a podcast is a rough cut. 00:57:48.440 --> 00:57:51.160 And that's basically a rough draft of a podcast. 00:57:51.160 --> 00:57:55.000 So it's a version that can then be edited and critiqued. 00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:57.160 It should ideally be about the length 00:57:57.160 --> 00:58:00.680 that you're aiming podcast to be when it's finished 00:58:00.680 --> 00:58:02.880 and have as much of the final material that's 00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:05.360 going to be in that podcast as possible. 00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:07.960 Depending on how much time you have to produce the podcast, 00:58:07.960 --> 00:58:10.960 you may make one rough cut or several. 00:58:10.960 --> 00:58:12.800 Or if you're under a severe time crunch, 00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:14.720 you might not even have time to make one at all. 00:58:14.720 --> 00:58:17.240 It's basically just a rough draft. 00:58:17.240 --> 00:58:21.040 OK, so let's learn how to export. 00:58:21.040 --> 00:58:26.200 So you want to be careful if you have any muted tracks, 00:58:26.200 --> 00:58:28.320 then those are going to be muted when you export, 00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:29.920 same with soloing. 00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:33.200 So right here, I want everything to just be captured naturally. 00:58:33.200 --> 00:58:35.760 So nothing is muted, nothing is soloed. 00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:39.000 So we're just going to go to File. 00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:40.360 Let's see. 00:58:40.360 --> 00:58:41.440 Let's come up here. 00:58:41.840 --> 00:58:47.480 File, Export, Multitrack Mixed Down. 00:58:47.480 --> 00:58:49.480 Now right here, I don't have anything in particular selected, 00:58:49.480 --> 00:58:51.440 so we're just going to do the entire-- 00:58:51.440 --> 00:58:54.440 [INAUDIBLE] 00:58:54.440 --> 00:58:57.440 --that. 00:58:57.440 --> 00:59:00.080 Or another great option, if I, for example, 00:59:00.080 --> 00:59:03.080 have a lot of dead space at the beginning of your end, 00:59:03.080 --> 00:59:11.320 then I can hit I and hit O. 00:59:11.320 --> 00:59:18.320 And then Export, just the time selection. 00:59:18.320 --> 00:59:19.960 And then it's just going to, yes, 00:59:19.960 --> 00:59:22.920 export that thing that I selected right there. 00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:25.600 So you can-- 00:59:25.600 --> 00:59:26.720 let's see. 00:59:26.720 --> 00:59:27.920 Yeah, you can export as a wave. 00:59:27.920 --> 00:59:29.240 It's slightly better quality. 00:59:29.240 --> 00:59:32.720 Mp3 is often perfectly fine. 00:59:32.720 --> 00:59:34.360 And you can literally just hit OK. 00:59:34.360 --> 00:59:36.160 And then it's going to export it. 00:59:36.160 --> 00:59:39.080 So we can now find that on my computer. 00:59:39.080 --> 00:59:41.960 You don't want your file to be too big. 00:59:41.960 --> 00:59:44.520 If you're putting a podcast onto the internet, 00:59:44.520 --> 00:59:48.240 you probably want it to be a maximum of about 25 megabytes. 00:59:48.240 --> 00:59:50.560 Otherwise, it'll be difficult for people to stream 00:59:50.560 --> 00:59:52.960 and to download. 00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:54.880 Just a couple of other things. 00:59:54.880 --> 00:59:58.560 It could be helpful to save new versions of your piece 00:59:58.560 --> 01:00:01.320 every time you've done kind of a significant round of editing, 01:00:01.320 --> 01:00:04.640 just in case you want to go back and change something. 01:00:04.640 --> 01:00:06.760 So I just like to say, if you know, 01:00:06.760 --> 01:00:09.960 tutorial one, tutorial two, et cetera, 01:00:09.960 --> 01:00:14.440 as long as you have enough space in your computer for that. 01:00:14.440 --> 01:00:17.040 So another term that you should probably know, two terms, 01:00:17.040 --> 01:00:21.200 actually, you might hear people talking about acts and tracks. 01:00:21.200 --> 01:00:24.160 Acts stands for actualities. 01:00:24.160 --> 01:00:27.520 That's tape that you have recorded personally, 01:00:27.520 --> 01:00:29.800 and then tracks in the field. 01:00:29.800 --> 01:00:32.320 So anything-- you're doing an interview in the field 01:00:32.320 --> 01:00:34.600 or even an interview on your computer, 01:00:34.600 --> 01:00:37.880 just something you've recorded that's upsetting a scene. 01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:40.360 And then tracks is your own narration. 01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:43.560 So hello and welcome to this podcast. 01:00:43.560 --> 01:00:45.040 That's tracks. 01:00:45.040 --> 01:00:49.080 So if you're tracking something, you're adding narration. 01:00:49.080 --> 01:00:52.560 You might hear the term axitraxy. 01:00:52.560 --> 01:00:56.640 If the sound kind of becomes too homogenous 01:00:56.640 --> 01:01:01.160 and you're just kind of switching between narration 01:01:01.160 --> 01:01:05.640 and then a field tape, is it field tape, 01:01:05.640 --> 01:01:09.920 or maybe a question and an answer in a really kind of rigid, 01:01:09.920 --> 01:01:12.040 like three seconds of this, three seconds of that, 01:01:12.040 --> 01:01:14.400 then the listener-- your ear kind of gets bored. 01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:17.160 And sometimes people say that it's too axitraxy, 01:01:17.160 --> 01:01:21.880 and you might need to make the soundscape a little bit 01:01:21.880 --> 01:01:24.200 less homogenous. 01:01:24.200 --> 01:01:27.280 You also might want to add music. 01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:31.120 So there are lots of different royalty-free music sites. 01:01:31.120 --> 01:01:33.520 This one right here is something that I downloaded earlier 01:01:33.520 --> 01:01:35.080 from Blue Dot Sessions. 01:01:35.080 --> 01:01:37.440 That's a great place to get royalty-free music. 01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:38.640 Highly recommend. 01:01:38.640 --> 01:01:39.880 They don't have a ton of options, 01:01:39.880 --> 01:01:41.320 but they do have a fair amount. 01:01:41.320 --> 01:01:44.720 This is called Sonatine Brure Critique. 01:01:44.720 --> 01:01:47.960 And then again, we can just drag that in. 01:01:47.960 --> 01:01:49.880 Let's see. 01:01:49.880 --> 01:01:55.160 I'm going to hit W here, drag these all to the side. 01:01:55.160 --> 01:01:59.440 Let's say, for example, that I want the music to come in, 01:01:59.440 --> 01:02:01.800 and then I want it to decrease when the narration is going 01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:02.920 to start. 01:02:02.920 --> 01:02:04.800 I'll just pull this down a little bit. 01:02:04.800 --> 01:02:05.680 Let's see how that sounds. 01:02:05.680 --> 01:02:13.480 Thank you so much for being here today. 01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:15.480 I think like, hello, everybody. 01:02:15.480 --> 01:02:17.440 Testing, one, two, et cetera. 01:02:17.440 --> 01:02:18.520 Hello. 01:02:18.520 --> 01:02:23.000 OK, so yes, music can often really spice things up 01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:28.200 and prevent, again, the texture from becoming too homogenous. 01:02:28.200 --> 01:02:31.280 One good rule for thumb is you don't really 01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:35.600 want to have any particular music cue going on for more 01:02:35.600 --> 01:02:38.640 than 90-ish seconds, or else the listener 01:02:38.640 --> 01:02:42.520 can start to, again, your ear gets bored 01:02:42.520 --> 01:02:44.160 and you start to zone out. 01:02:44.160 --> 01:02:45.240 That's a general rule of thumb. 01:02:45.240 --> 01:02:48.240 It's not necessarily the case, but it can be something 01:02:48.240 --> 01:02:50.680 good to keep in mind. 01:02:50.680 --> 01:02:54.480 OK, so I think that's everything I wanted to get through. 01:02:54.480 --> 01:02:57.640 Happy to take actions at this point. 01:02:57.640 --> 01:02:59.360 Yeah, for something else. 01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:01.200 [INAUDIBLE] 01:03:01.200 --> 01:03:04.240 . 01:03:04.240 --> 01:03:14.240 [BLANK_AUDIO]