Six hours later, I was done - and horrified. Everything went as planned: I recorded our conversation using Zoom’s built-in call recording feature, saved the audio file to Dropbox, and opened the file in Ferrite on my iPad. This Ferrite-based setup was in place when I recorded my first show, the interview with Lou Rosenfeld. And using an iPad-based editor would make it easier for me to work on the show in different locales such as coffee shops and public transport. This workflow required moving large audio files between the two - more of an obstacle than an inconvenience. I’d be recording audio tracks on macOS and editing them on my iPad. The one downside to Ferrite, of course, is that it works on a different platform. It includes the ability to detect silences in the track to split the track. Ferrite had many of the features I wanted in an audio editor but was relatively inexpensive. I settled on Ferrite, an iOS-based audio editor. Breaking it up this way allows the editor to work more efficiently with blocks of speech, saving lots of time.
AUDACITY VS GARAGEBAND FOR FREE
(Something I find very distracting.)Īt this point, you may be wondering: why not use Garageband, an audio editor that comes bundled for free with Macs? I evaluated Garageband, but it was missing a key feature: the ability to automatically split a track based on stretches of silence in the track. My experience with cross-platform open source software made me think Audacity may be a powerful tool, but perhaps wouldn’t feel like a native macOS application. One of my guiding principles was not to spend too much money on the show, so I was wary of investing in high-end tools.
AUDACITY VS GARAGEBAND PRO
There are several audio editing tools available, ranging from open source (and free) like Audacity, to professional (and expensive) like Logic Pro X. I evaluated audio editing software before starting the show. So I knew editing would be a part of producing each episode.
This time constraint would require that I cut material from the source audio files. As I mentioned previously, I was aiming for thirty-minute episodes. We pause to think about what we want to say. They’d need to be edited before I posted them. But I had enough experience with other media (video, writing) to know that I wouldn’t be able to release episodes precisely as recorded. This post is about an important (and time-consuming) part of the process: editing each episode.Īs I mentioned in the first post, I had limited experience with audio production before I started podcasting. The first post was about the thinking that led up to the show. To celebrate the first anniversary of my podcast, The Informed Life, I’ve been writing about my podcasting setup.
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