Day 22: Editing All Episodes

Today we will be editing all the episode we have created over previous lessons including the 3-5 episodes in your content bank, your episode 0, and your trailer, to get them ready for publishing.

Steps for Skill Mastery:

1. Editing the episode sound quality
2. Editing the episode script

Step 1: Edit Your Episode Sound Quality

Some things you will want to consider editing are:

• Background white noise
• Silencing unwanted things like dogs barking, phones, coughs, sneezes, cups hitting tables, etc.
• Match loudness of you and your guests audio
• Cutting Out unwanted portions of audio such as long pauses, non-relevant talking, or excessive ums and yeahs

For this editing process I will show how to edit the audio quality in the recording software you chose (Adobe Audition, Audacity, or Garageband) and then moving into Descript in order to edit your script.

Let's get to it

Adobe Audition

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Audacity

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Garage Band

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Activity: Edit the Sound Quality

Using your editing software of you choice, practice editing one of the practice episodes you recorded previously.

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Now let's move to editing your podcast script.

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Step 2: Edit Your Podcast Script

After you have edited your audio quality and saved your audio, you will move it into Descript. This will allow you to edit the script and spoken word of your audio like a word document making editing much faster.

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Activity: Edit Your Episode Script

Import your previously edited audio file into Descript and edit the script of the episode, removing unwanted parts, moving parts around, or adding in new parts as necessary.

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Once you have done this, you episode is ready for adding intros, outros, and music. We will cover that tomorrow!

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Skill Lesson Mastered

Demonstrate mastery of the knowledge and skills presented in this lesson by applying it to the above activity. If, and only if, you have a full understanding and have mastered the knowledge and skills presented in this lesson, select the next lesson in the navigation.