Sometimes I have students that have crazy tech smarts, they can't wait to dive into the editing and use the software. And then the rest of the time. My students are entertainers. They come from the world of being performers, and they are terrified of the tech side of this job. And if you're one of those people, let me just say this, if you can drive a car or ride a bike, then chances are you're going to be able to use and, and manipulate software. It's just a simple set of steps that you need to learn and memorize.

That's it. And then once you start doing it, and you'll stumble and fall a little bit here and there, but you'll learn from it. Every time it'll all start to become as automatic as driving a car to. Okay, let's get started. I'm going to show you my example using Adobe Audition. Have no fear if you're using another software.

The main commands no matter what software you use for fast editing a voice files are, how to stop the playback how to quickly zoom in, and quickly zoom out how to remove mistakes, how to remove breaths or clicks. How to create files from your project. Whatever software you are using, there are pretty much always tutorials online. To learn one of these editing shortcuts in your software, do a search for how to plus the command you need to know. Plus, in plus the software you use, for example, how to trim a track in Pro Tools, or how to quickly zoom in and out in Audacity. I'm just going to use a job.

It's a short job, almost like a tagline, really. And they want to make sure that this isn't too silly. So when we begin, just like in that audition lesson, I press the record button or shift space. This comes up says called single parent meet calm, so I'll just put single parents session. It's defaulting to 40,000 sample rate, that's good. We want mono that's good and the bit that can either be 16 or 24.

I'm just going to leave it at 16 and then press OK. And we begin recording. So here I go. Getting up into The recording room. Alright, let's play this back and see how it sounds. Hey, so yeah, like Scarlett Johansson. That's great.

And not to Sally conversational friendly and optimistic. Meet single parent meet.com the number one dating site for single parents start for free today. Okay, so there was my first take and then everything before that is a bunch of gobbledygook. As I did in the audition lesson, you can take the wheel on the mouse and we'll in to zoom in, we'll back to zoom out and then it looks like the take starts here. Meet single parent Yes. So everything before that is the Useless.

Let's go to right about here, left, click, drag it across, paint it white, and press the delete key. then zoom in with the wheel. If you're not quite over to the far left, you can reach up here and slide it over to the far left to make sure you are. Since the tape starts here, I will drag with left click drag, right click in the white space selected silence so that removes any talking breaths or anything before my take actually begins. who want to get real nitpicky, I can just delete that with the delete key. Here's the first one.

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Yeah, delete key. Meet single parent meet.com. The number one dating site for single parents start for free today. Start for free today, like the second one better. So I will left click drag. Delete key.

Isn't that easy? All right, so then just select left click to tap for another starting point. Back here spacebar to start, the number one dating site for single parents start for free today. Zoom out. That's a bunch of stuff we don't meet. So well.

Parents start stop. cursor back here meets. So meet single parent meet.com. The number one dating site for single delete Make this silent. Grab it. You don't quite have it all zoom in, draw the cursor over the line and see how the cursor changes shape and then adjust to get all of the region right click silence.

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Select this right here, press Ctrl C for copy. go right to that space parents start for free today. Put the cursor right here Ctrl V for paste, insert some more silence. Let's just start for free today. Meet single parent meet.com the number one dating site for single parents start for free today. Start for free today.

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Grab it, right click. Silence. Okay, so now I have a bunch of clean takes. Wait, is this, this looks extra long. Let me see what extras up in here. Here is what I present to you meet.

Meet single parent meet.com. Okay, so let's say they want, um, two files, each with three takes on them. Okay, here's the first three takes. Here's the second three takes. I grab the first three takes, painted across. And then I press Ctrl Alt, save, just like what we did in the auditioning.

Generally clients want WAV files, but a lot of times they're totally okay with mp3 files. Just ask the client what they want because each job is different. So you go here to format and make sure you select the format that corresponds with whatever the client asked for. I'm gonna go with mp3 and press single parent session, I'll say single parent, take one through three takes. single parent takes one through three, make sure you put them in a place where you're going to remember. So maybe I'll say desktop and if I have like a special folder for jobs, well, I keep most of my jobs and documents.

So I would have a folder that said single parent job right here. That sounds funny. There we go. Make sure that I placed it in there. Save and save. Now for the next to grab it CTRL ALT s. single parent takes four through six settings.

All right, everything is right. It's going to the same place. Okay? All right. So then, when I go and browse for let's see documents, single parent job, those two are right here, and then I get them to the client, however they're looking for it. So let's recap.

To start and stop the playback you can press the spacebar to quickly zoom in and out. You can roll the wheel of your mouse forward or backward. You can also A zoom in with the plus key and out with the minus key. You can remove mistakes by left clicking drag to highlight and press the delete key. You can remove breaths or clicks by left clicking dragging to highlight. Then right click in the highlighted area and select silence.

You can create files from your project by left clicking, dragging to highlight and press Ctrl Alt save