Blanket permission thought + podfic + "making-of"

[greedy_dancer]

My post for today contains two different things: first, my thought about blanket permission, and then a podfic I recorded and edited this afternoon, while documenting the whole process, kind of like a making-of. I'm cutting both parts, so if you just want to get to the finished product, just scroll down!

Blanket permission is a way for fan

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[greedy_dancer]

Editing is probably the BANE of every podficcer's life! But it can also be fun! I like seeing it come all together, and definitely watching as all the mistakes go away is also kind of satisfying!

Amplification and noise reduction are in the "Effects" menu. There's a basic description here, but I think it's probably for a previous version of Audacity, because in my version, "noise removal" has been renamed "noise reduction". But you can find your way around it pretty easily, I think.

I use Amplification version 1.3.13 beta (in French) so to me amplification looks like this:



I just select whatever piece of audio I want to amplify (or turn down) and slide the bar up or down the line. I don't touch the other setting, I don't even know what it does >.>

Another way to amplify, I've started to realize, is by using the little volume thingies at the beginning of your Audacity tracks:



If you amplify there, by moving the slider towards the + sign, and export without touching those settings, it'll keep the volume that you set. Which I learnt by not having all the tracks amplified the same when I exported, so the volume kept jumping up and down through my recording everytime a new track came on /o\

For noise reduction, I know the tool looks a bit different depending on your version - which I also learnt by asking a podficcer about her noise reduction settings, and she replied with way more settings than I had in my version *g* but the point is, you need to fiddle with it a little and see what sounds the best. I have 4 settings to adjust, which I usually set to something like this:



There's a basic rundown of how to use the tool on the page I linked above. Then you really have to try many, many settings to find the one that you need, depending on your settings and mic and sound quality etc, and to reach the balance between noise reduction and voice distortion, which will happen if you get too excited *g*

Oh, and one thing to remember with noise reduction: it will sound better to set lower settings, and repeat the process several times, than to try and get all the noise on the first pass.

Hope that helps! I'm glad you thought it was interesting! :)

[randomicicle]

:O! Thank you for all this info, love ♥ It was very very useful. Also, I just finished editing a podfic and it took me A LOT less time than usual just by doing the visual editing. It's quite wonderful, should've come up with something similar before and save so much time. Anyway, thanks for the tips :D