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if you put together an audio podcast or just want to know some simple audio editing tricks stick around I my as actor and today I'm gonna show you how to edit your podcast I'm gonna assume you've got a couple of things already an audio file of your show and the free audio editing application called audacity now we've got a fantastic recording I did earlier today hey welcome to my exciting brand-new show I don't have a title for it so we're just going to continue talking audacity shows your audio in waveforms when you're editing you're going to have to listen to your whole show a number of times so get comfortable with your recorded voice trust me it's not so bad anyhow as you're going through your show find the areas you want to snip out things like table hits or the word um so I'm looking at my audio file here I'm gonna play back some of the audio you know a show where I don't really know there's the dreaded um what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna select the UM right here and I'm gonna hit delete I'm gonna go back a few seconds to hear if it sounds natural or not between the things I was saying alighting on a show where I don't really know what sort of works but let's talk about it in audio anyway make sure you save frequently I'm gonna hit save now repeat this process until you're satisfied now you'll export your audio by going to file then export then give your file a name now we're gonna need another piece of software called level ater be forewarned that this application is no longer supportive as of 2012 but a quick web search will bring you to an archive.org site that still hosts the application so why am I suggesting if it's so old because it automatically will level out your audio file so if you were off mic or whispering the audio levels would be brought up to suitable volumes so the audience can hear you to use the level ater take that exported file you made and just drag and drop it on top of the level ater window level later we'll make a new file and place it in the same directory as your source file you could be done here but let's get some intro music please do not just clip out a piece of your favorite song and use it as your theme without permission you can get your whole episode taken down instead I suggest doing a search for Creative Commons music or checking out a repository of Korea Camas music like at vimeo we've already downloaded our intro song and clipped it to a suitable length don't make your intro music beyond 30 seconds please the audience wants to hear from you let's open up audacity again and place our intro music along with our level ater output file since we don't want the music and our show to take up the same space use the time shift tool that's the one that's like a double arrow then drag your show audio near the end of the music I'd like to have a cool fade-out of the music while my show starts so here's how you do that select the portion of music you want to fade out then choose effect then fade out you'll see the waveform changed to match hey welcome to my exciting brand new show I don't have a title for it so we're just going to continue talking listen to your edit and if you like your work hit export now you've got an uncompressed edited version of your show there are a lot more steps from here before we can post this amazing show online and we'll have a follow-up for that soon Amaya's Akhtar and more tips and tricks visit cnet-dot-com-slash-loaded you