I'm really intrigued that you save each chapter of your podfic in a separate file. I can definitely see how that could make editing go easier -- I always record in one large file, and end up spending a lot of time scrolling around trying to find the part I'm on. How does it work when you go to combine them? DO you edit each file first, then combine, or do you combine and then edit? And when it comes to combining, do you have to export each chapter first, or can you insert the GarageBand file directly into your project?
I am really super duper anal about my computer and where things are at and where I save them. I think that's why I love the new Mavericks update for Mac (tagging!). Whatever project I'm working on gets saved to the desktop to constantly remind me to be working on it. I can't ignore it if it's staring me in the face.
When I do long projects, I record them by chapters. Even if I'm recording like 4 in a row. I recorded a long project once, in garageband, and because my raw file was 7 hours long, I wasn't able to export it to itunes. I freaked out. ALL THAT WORK! (I edit in a different program, I have zero clues how to edit in garageband) So I make myself close out long projects and export at the 3 hour mark because anything longer and GB cockblocks me from the file.
Tiny Houses is huge, so each chapter is like 2-3 hours raw each so it's easier on audacity to edit chapter by chapter. For some reason when I work on longer projects, audacity slows down for me. Sometimes just a simple cut/silence will take like 30 seconds to kick in. I get massively frustrated. So the smaller files eliminates that.
I edit them down and then when i'm ready to add music etc I paste them all together as one big file and upload them to auphonic to even out the highs and lows. It's super easy to just import all the files and drag them into one track.
I'm sure there are probably way better, and easier, ways to do these things, but I don't use tutorials, I just feel shit out and find what's easiest for me.
I'm with you on the scrolling through huge files. So I have a sticky on the desktop (in production) Where I timestamp the beginning of each scene.
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Date: 2013-11-16 08:35 am (UTC)When I do long projects, I record them by chapters. Even if I'm recording like 4 in a row. I recorded a long project once, in garageband, and because my raw file was 7 hours long, I wasn't able to export it to itunes. I freaked out. ALL THAT WORK! (I edit in a different program, I have zero clues how to edit in garageband) So I make myself close out long projects and export at the 3 hour mark because anything longer and GB cockblocks me from the file.
Tiny Houses is huge, so each chapter is like 2-3 hours raw each so it's easier on audacity to edit chapter by chapter. For some reason when I work on longer projects, audacity slows down for me. Sometimes just a simple cut/silence will take like 30 seconds to kick in. I get massively frustrated. So the smaller files eliminates that.
I edit them down and then when i'm ready to add music etc I paste them all together as one big file and upload them to auphonic to even out the highs and lows. It's super easy to just import all the files and drag them into one track.
I'm sure there are probably way better, and easier, ways to do these things, but I don't use tutorials, I just feel shit out and find what's easiest for me.
I'm with you on the scrolling through huge files. So I have a sticky on the desktop (in production) Where I timestamp the beginning of each scene.