• 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

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

• 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.

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

I would love you to get in touch. To make it easy for you I have got a number of different ways because I know everyone likes to be different !!!

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