Audacity Editing 101 - 12 tips in 10 minutes
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- 12 Audacity Tips in 10 minutes - a tour of useful editing techniques used to complete the "countdown" exercise. A good tutorial for beginners wanting to learn the basics of audio editing.
UPDATE - Audacity v2.3 changes a few things.
- To select multiple tracks, use CTRL-CLICK instead of SHIFT-CLICK
- Try using NORMALIZE instead of AMPLIFY as an early step
Yep - this was made on Windows XP
An updated version of this video can be found here:
• Audacity Editing for B...
Stephen Beale:
Click links on timings to skip video directly to that part:
1. 0:47 Import Audio (to get the audio into your project)
2. 1:03 Noise Removal (remove unwanted background or white noise)
3. 2:18 Amplify (increase volume)
4. 2:43 Trimming (cutting unwanted parts
5. 2:57 Split clip (to be able to move sections around)
6. 3:33 Time shift (CTRL+ALT+i - move sound around - not copy/paste!)
7. 3:55 Split new (CTRL+ALT+i [??] - adds audio to new track)
(Not numbered?) 4:45 Resize window (Ctrl+F OR Ctrl+Shift+F)
8. 5:47 Name tracks
9. 7:00 Select Multiple Tracks - Shift and click on relevant tracks
10. 7:45 Mix down (mix tracks together)
11. 8:03 Pan tracks (left right audio speaker output)
12. 8:19 Export as MP3
Excellent instructions! Concise and to the point, timing is perfect, packed with good tips in just 10 min.
Click links on timings to skip video directly to that part:
1. 0:47 Import Audio (to get the audio into your project)
2. 1:03 Noise Removal (remove unwanted background or white noise)
3. 2:18 Amplify (increase volume)
4. 2:43 Trimming (cutting unwanted parts
5. 2:57 Split clip (to be able to move sections around)
6. 3:33 Time shift (CTRL+ALT+i - move sound around - not copy/paste!)
7. 3:55 Split new (CTRL+ALT+i [??] - adds audio to new track)
(Not numbered?) 4:45 Resize window (Ctrl+F OR Ctrl+Shift+F)
8. 5:47 Name tracks
9. 7:00 Select Multiple Tracks - Shift and click on relevant tracks
10. 7:45 Mix down (mix tracks together)
11. 8:03 Pan tracks (left right audio speaker output)
12. 8:19 Export as MP3
thanks
Thanks Steven!
Thank you, too!
Thanks so much!
Finally! A video that gets straight to the point, provides clear and concise information and doesn't waste your time. Thanks for this!
I clicked on a bunch of Audacity videos and clicked back out a few seconds into it...gawd awful speakers with ZERO command of the English language and/or speaking. This one is GREAT. Can tell that you are a teacher. You must be a very good one. THANKS!
This is one of the best audacity bullet tutorials I've seen in quite a while. Thank you.
Thanks for the kind words gang!
You are a great teacher! Thank you for the informative and well presented video.
Almost watched a 45 minute video on the same thing but saw this one instead. Perfect!
Fantastic Easy to Understand Instruction - Huge Thankyou
Wow, so nice to have a real teacher show how to do these things! Thanks, brilliant job.
perfect video for recording rookies. a must watch. thanks for the video! keep up the great work
Awesome clear instruction. Thank you!
Thank you so much, very useful tutorials for few minutes
thank you so much for putting an index in the video description! I was able to jump right to the part where you explain splitting audio.
its so good to find objective tutorials
Many thanks, it is a real good tutorial, I learned many "needed" things
great tutorial nicely paced,no waste....
Lordy! Surely there can't be any instructional video on anything as good as this one!
Hey man, this was a great video, very well made and extremely well made. You should really continue making videos.
Learned a lot from this. Thanks a lot for this video. It's still helping people!
Great tutorial! Have this book marked so that I can watch it over & over & over again! Guess I'm a slow learner...................Thanks for posting...............
This video stands the test of time. Great tutorial!
This is a really helpful tutorial. Thanks!
Very informative. Many thanks!
Great tips. Audacity seems overwhelming at first but it is really pretty simple with a few tips.
Great video! Really enjoyed learning from you! Great teacher. So thanks
Absolutely stunning!! Thanks!!
maan...im in the middle of this video, and already your the best...thanks!
Thanks a lot!! awesome tutorial!
really useful stuff - thanks so much (amazing as recording nearly 6 years ago!)
Very helpful and insightful video, thank you sir.
Great tips. Thanks!
Outstanding! Thank you for the tutorial. Even now in 2018 it helps a novice like me.
Excellent. Great teaching ability!
This was very helpful, thank you! :)
uh, this video is fantastic. thanks big time.
Great teacher! Thank you!
Excellent tips , thanks
You are a good teacher man.
Thank you. That's really useful!
Excellent lesson ! Thanks
Thank you---very informative!!!
Great tutorial - many thanks!
VERY HELPFUL, THANKS A LOT
I´ve spent a whole afternoon trying to add a new voice record in my audio. Thank you for this video, you saved my day!!! = )
Glad to hear that!
Excellent, thank you.
installed, everything works, thanks!
Just found your video. Subscribed. Thanks for the great content.
Thank you so much. I use Sound forge at church to edit the sermon out of the whole service for Podcast and would use markers to indicate what I wanted to delete but couldn't find the same process on Audacity to edit the Youth Pastors mid week sermons at home until you showed how to "Split" then select
thanks this has helped me a lot ive been trying to figure out some of this stuff for a while now had audacity about 6 months its gonna be invaluable still need to cut latency though its a pain in the ass lol
great stuff! thanks
Great tutorial
Great video with clear instructions. Thank you! I agree with Stewart that a before and after sounds would have been nice just to hear the changes. Nevertheless a super helpful video. Thanks again!
Great Tutorial, my dj friend just asked me if I could explain audacity to him,so I searched youtube and saw your vid..THANK YOU.
Perfect. Thanks!
amazing ,,it really helped ,,thank u
thanks, great tutorial
Cool. simple and enough to start playing.
Excellent!
Just watched it...Really nice effort :-)
Thanks a tonne for sharing this and dropping the knowledge.
It is one of the best, if not the best tutorial I have ever seen and I have been watching training videos for more than 15 years!
Too bad that Wikispaces is going. I hope you have plans to host the site somewhere else.
some good tips, nice.
I'm actually wondering about what to do when you got a double track. Like a track with I guess a bass attached.
I just want to remove the one side of it.
Thank you very much!!!
Well, explained!
Thank you a lot. Old video but helpful.
thaaaanks a lot!!
Hi and thanks. Suggestion: It might have been nice to play the before and after sounds so people could hear what you actually achieved.
You're right - I finally got around to making a revised version here : czcams.com/video/WWFvG1-AmNk/video.html
Great thanks
Really enjoyed the video. Love the pace and the wording, although I would expect someone who is good with sound editing to be good..... at editing their sound haha :) great job !
Very good tutorial - wow from 2012! How do I make a track larger vertically to make editing the fades more accurately- thx
you have to use the magnifying tool
Yeah that helps alot,,, thanks
Great video, can you help with some advice on how to export a track from my iTunes library to this program and be able to modify and be able to export back to my iTunes library.
Tqsm for the Vidio sir
Finally! I use Shotcut for my wife's CZcams channel. Had an exhaust fan in one segment. Wanted it gone! How??? Grabbed Audacity and hit a wall. I've been looking for decent how-to's for over a week. The first thing you showed was "noise reduction." Hallelujah!!! The best part is you actually are an ADULT! And you speak clearly and concisely. I've waded through a lot of useless videos to find you, so I've subscribed and "rang the bell" so I'll know when you do more. Thank you very much for some MUCH needed assistance. I'm thinkin' you must be from Canada. Right?
Thank You.😊
Hey... Thanks for the video 👍👏👏👏
that helps alot
Thank you! (sorry for my english)
Could you tell me if there's any way to, having multiple tracks, put everything togheter, next to each other, in order, in just one track? Not by copying and paste, but with a single command.
yeah i would know about it too :(
Great Video! I used it with my Media class last semester. Where are you relocating your wiki page?? It's such a great resource to teach myself before I teach the class!
Hi there
I wondered if you can tell me how to bring recordings into accurate time so the odd drum beats that are a bit out for example are smoothed out evenly. We are recording live worship music so a single track recording has everything in it. Can this be done please. I'm not after perfection as they are live and with some fluctuations but just want to be on beat as near as pos.
Advice would be much appreciated thank you.
Gary Horizon Worship
wow - thank you.
Your Hair is AWESOME!!!
Thank you sir
I like your tutorial, for me it is very logical. However, I have two computers, Mac and Linux, I tend to use the Mac the most as it is 64 bit. However, I do struggle importing the files into the Mac, do you cover this aspect for Mac?
My vocal turn out not very clear (look like roar sound) evenly it not reach red line when play back, can you please tell how to fix this?. Thank you so much!
I have a voice recording with loud tv noise in the background. Is there any way to remove this
awesome thx :}
T H A N K Y O U---- T H A N K Y O U ---- THANK YOU The best tutorial ever.
Thank you
AHA! You are a teacher! Just watched another video (16 tips 9 mins) and made a rambling comment there..........but this time ......all I can say is....What Lucky Kids at your school! peace and love from Kaapstad.
Thanks for moving it right along...most video creators lolly-gag. Plus, of course, good information.
hi i want to know how to change a mono track to stereo in the recording i have voices and cars going by i want to get the car sound to go from left to right and get the voices in a right and left but dont know how to do it can you help me pls thanks very much
thanx good explanation.will take me a trial and error period to use it , but hey ,thanx again
Thanks for the info. I'm forced to switch from Audition and it's like re-learning where all the parts of the wheel are.
Glad if it helped!
I just updated this video, and had to re-learn how to make these tutorials!
Here's the latest version: czcams.com/video/reZMOje6WJY/video.html
Information is Worth
even this video is recorded back in XP era...
but, it still teaches well in 2020
re-noise removal, actually you can amply first by a factor of 2.6
then do the sound profile stuff
Is there an effective way to reduce room echo? I'm filming in a small room (stone walls and floors) but there's echo in the voices and I'm trying to dampen it out but not really getting there. Any tips on this would be brilliant.
Not what you want to hear, but the BEST way to reduce room echo is during production - get that microphone as close to your actors as possible while still being out of frame. Alternatively, you can try re-recording the dialogue to match the footage in an ADR session and dub it into the edit - the pros do that all the time. I don't know of any way of using Audacity to correct room echo without it making things worse.
When cut part in the middle, how to set precise placed left and right markers (in fact this will be the left and right markers for cut)? And how to select and cut between these 2 markers?
is the main file you created still available?