Removing Silence, Splitting + Joining Clips
Lesson 25 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video ProductionTomas George
Removing Silence, Splitting + Joining Clips
Lesson 25 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video ProductionTomas George
Lesson Info
25. Removing Silence, Splitting + Joining Clips
Lessons
Introduction and Welcome to this Course
00:50 2Listen to your Recording Environment
03:43 3Room Treatment Tips
03:07 4Dynamic vs Condenser Microphones
02:35 5Recommended Pro-Level Microphones
02:55 6Recommended Budget Level Mics
02:35 7Microphone Audio Comparisons
05:53 8What is an Audio Interface and How is it Useful
01:48Recommended Pro-Level Audio Interfaces
01:35 10Recommended Budget-Level Audio Interfaces
01:46 11My Thoughts on USB Microphones
00:45 12Microphone Positioning and Accessories
04:09 13Essential Microphone Polar Patterns
03:17 14Recommended Monitors and Headphones
03:55 15Other Audio Monitoring Tips
02:41 16Introduction to Capturing Audio
00:18 17Recommend Audio Recording Software and DAWs
06:28 18A Quick Look at Some Handy Recorders
02:39 19Audacity Introduction
00:45 20Setting up to Record Audio in Audacity
03:49 21How to Record Audio into Audacity
02:54 22Other Features of Audacity - Playback, Zoom, Undo + Save
04:15 23How to Export Audio out of Audacity
03:37 24Essential Audio Editing Tools in Audacity
08:07 25Removing Silence, Splitting + Joining Clips
03:17 26Essential Key Command or Keyboard Shortcuts in Audacity
03:06 27Removing Background Noise Introduction
02:48 28How to use the Noise Gate Effect in Audacity
12:54 29How to use the Noise Reduction Effect in Audacity
11:15 30Mixing and Processing your Audio Introduction
02:32 31A Quick Look at the Filter Curve or EQ Effect
10:35 32A Quick Look at Compression and the Normalize Effect
11:21 33How to set up an Effects Macro in Audacity
03:23 34Adding Audio Effects to Audio Clips in Premiere Pro
06:06 35Gain/Volume in Premiere Pro
03:36 36Parametric EQ - Part 1 : An Overview of EQ and the Plugin
11:08 37Parametric EQ - Part 2A : Mixing Examples
15:56 38Parametric EQ - Part 2B : Mixing Examples - Example 2
11:31 39Parametric EQ - Part 3 - More Settings + Features
05:14 40Noise Reduction in Premiere Pro - Part 1: DeNoise
09:24 41Noise Reduction in Premiere Pro - Part 2: DeReverb
06:25 42Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 1: Introduction
02:47 43Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 2: Threshold + Ratio
04:16 44Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 3: Make up Gain
03:15 45Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 4: Attack and Release + 2nd Example
06:30 46How to use a DeEsser Audio Effect in Premiere Pro
12:00 47How to use the Hard Limiter Audio Effect in Premiere Pro
06:48 48How to use an Audio Meter in Premiere Pro - Loudness Radar
08:28 49Behind the Scenes of my Audio Recording Equipment
07:16 50Thanks and Bye
00:12Lesson Info
Removing Silence, Splitting + Joining Clips
OK. So now we're going to look at removing silence as well as splitting and joining audio files in audacity. Let's first talk about removing silence. So notice in this recording here, we have this large bit of silence. Let me just play this back. Now, every beat I also want to increase. So previously, we used the envelope tool to actually lower the volume here of a mistake. But let's go back to the select tool. So it's quite easy to remove silence and audacity. All you need to do is use the select tool and then click and drag on the area you'd like to remove and then hit delete, then it will delete the area you selected and the rest of the audio will snap back into place. Now, if I play this back on every beat, I also want to increase the velocity of the. So this can be useful for removing mistakes or pauses in your audio. For example, here, there looks like there's another unnecessary pause. Let's have a listen back up the same amount. So I, so again, I could use a select tool, click ...
and drag this area and then hit delete And now when I play this back, that pause will be gone same amount. So I want to keep my OK, great. You may also wish to split your audio clips and to do this is quite easy just to let the area you'd like to split. And then wherever this vertical line or play head ruler is, there will be a split. Once you hit command I on Mac or control I on Windows. Now you notice we have this black line. Now let's click over here to access the time shift tool or use a key command F five. And then we can click and drag these parts independently. So this may be useful if you've recorded another part which you'd like to add in here or move your audio clips around, you can easily do this by splitting your audio. For example, I'm just going to move this clip over and then this one over. And let's say we want to split here. So let's go back to the select tool by pressing F one or function F one on Mac and then select this area here and then hit command I to split or control I on Windows. And we've split this audio here. Now we can go back to the time shift tool by hitting this button or using the key command F five. And we can move this audio into the gap here and I can move this one over again. And I may wish to get rid of this gap here. So let's go back to the select all. So let's hit F one to access the select all click and drag over this area and now delete this. OK. So that is how you can split audio and also remove silence. We can also make our clips a bit more organized by joining our clips together to do this. Just make sure you click and drag with the selection tool, either clip you'd like to join and then go over to edit clip boundaries and join. You can see there that black line has disappeared and this clip has now been joined. Just for another example, let's join these two clips together. So click and drag each clip with the selection tool. Go up to edit clip boundaries and join. OK? So that's how you can remove silence as well as split and join your audio clips. In audacity. In the next video, we're going to be looking at some essential keyboard, shortcuts or key commands in audacity. I'll see you there.
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