Episode 25 - How to edit a podcast ?

Welcome 

• Welcome to the Business Souls podcast which helps you to maximise your magnificence by exploring one topic each week for 10 minutes.
• Sorry I am really over time this week.
• Hello and Welcome to Episode 25 - How to edit a podcast ?
• Part 6/12 Series Podcasting also apply to YouTube or YouTube Live / Facebook or Instagram Live
• Look into planning podcast and episodes
• Practicality of equipment, recording, editing and choosing a podcast host
• Look at how to launch
• Post launch content cycle and improvement of style of delivery

Quote For The Week

Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience - Stanley Kubrick

News

• Hello Business Souls
• Over the next few weeks I am going to be starting some lives which will be on YouTube
• I will announce when they are coming up.

Main Topic

How do I edit a podcast ?

• Start with originals
• Music
• Credits
• Decide on degree of editing
• Enhancing sound

Get Original Files

• Have you recorded directly ?
• WAV or MP3 files
• Best quality normally WAV

Music

• Nice to have music
• Can’t just use what you have on your phone
• Need to have royalty free music
• Make sure try to get the music as WAV files for highest quality

Credits

• Think about what you are going to put at the front or end of the podcast
• Best to record this once rather than having to record it each time
• Think about what it is you want to say
• Keep it short

Degree of Editing

• Try and record as per the programme
• If you are unsure what to say leave a space. You can edit out this silence
• Try and not um and and or so
• You can edit this out
• More you edit more time each episode takes
• Balance

Enhancing Sound

• Depending on your editor you maybe able to enhance sound
• Not going to to go into a whole load of detail
• For example if you record lower volume you can increase with a gain control
• You can get rid of ss sounds with desseer
• You can filter out excessive noise by using a noise gate
• You can add effects such as making people sound like they are in a cathedral or Wembley stadium.

Final Mix

• Once all the editing is done may want to fade up / fade down tracks
• Bounce the final track
• Ideally listen to it before uploading it

Summary

• Start with originals
• Music
• Credits
• Decide on degree of editing
• Enhancing sound
• Final mix

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