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Audacity for Instructors and Podcasters - Audacity Mastery

Name: Audacity for Instructors and Podcasters - Audacity Mastery
Rating: 4.3 (49 reviews)

Learn how to use Audacity to produce high quality audio content for your podcast or video tutorials

Created byAgnes Ferenczi, R-Tutorials Training

Last updated 5/2015

English

What you'll learn

confidently use Audacity
identify which content is perfectly suitable for your info products and which content is beyond repair
add plenty of effects to your audio material
create high quality audio tracks for your videos

Course content

5 sections • 26 lectures • 2h 7m total length

Important information before you start1:00
Hardware - Microphone and Headphones2:22
You will hear some tips concerning hardwares:

finding the priorities.
Choosing the right distance2:16
Choosing the right mouth-mic distance can save your life - or at least you have much less to do with your recordings :)
About Audacity - Downloading the program3:40
Some information about the program we are going to use.

Downloading and installing the corresponding version.
Basic Setup of Audacity5:28
Our first steps in Audacity:

quick walkthrough on the program's interface;

important settings.

Importing audio to the program3:40
Proper ways to import existing data into Audacity.

Tips for an efficient editing job.
How to record with Audacity3:50
How to record with Audacity:

features of the 'Transport Toolbar';

about the opportunities Audacity offers for recordings;

key combinations.
Track Options4:49
In this lecture we are going to learn more about the menu options of the individual audio tracks.
The Editing Toolbox11:11
The Six Section Toolbox:

about the usage of the editing tools Audacity offers;

Selection Tool;

Time Shift Tool;

Zoom Tool;

Draw Tool;

Envelope Tool;

Multi Tool;

their shortcuts.
Generating Sounds3:50
About the sound generating feature of the program. How to make custom sounds and noises for your projects.
Ways to save your file6:04
Audacity offers many ways to save your work - In this lecture I'm going to show you how to use the popular ways.

Audacity project files;

uncompressed products;

how to produce MP3 file with Audacity.

Introduction to Audacity's Effects5:56
Let's dive deep in Audacity!

about the opportunities;

about the borders of sound editing;

useful tips.
Noise removing on various ways19:16
In this video I'm going to show you how to

remove the frequent background noise from your recordings;

set up the 'Noise removal' properly;

get rid off additional noises.
How to change the volume of your recording on a proper way7:39
Audacity offers multiple tools to change the quality of your recording's volume

which trick does not work;

track volume;

Amplify effect;

Normalize effect;

the Compressor;

the Hard Limiter;

the Envelope Tool.
Make your audio sound smooth - The Fade Effects6:21
Additional improvement on your audio to make it even more professional sounding.

Fade In / Fade Out effects.

Cross Fade In / Cross Fade Out effects.

How to make proper cross fading effects.
Tools to improve the quality of your audio6:45
Quality improvement tools for richer tone and better sounding.

definitions: Speed, Tempo, Pitch;

Change Speed;

Change Tempo;

Change Pitch;

Equalizer.
Effects grouped by functions1:00
A graphic featuring the main characteristics of Audacity.
Check out your knowledge concerning Audacity's effects
Third-party compressor for a professional result - part I.0:58
Download the .ZIP file
Third-party compressor for a professional result - part II.4:54

Key combinations5:42
Adding Labels to your project5:44
Leave messages for yourself or for your college/freelancer

how to use the Label Track;

how to edit while using it;

Sync Lock Track.
Accelerate your work with Audacity7:05
Make your work with audacity faster, and save time.

how to use the 'Chains' feature of Audacity

how to add new chains

how to edit chains

how to apply chains in various cases
Using noise removal in chains1:23
Frequently Used Keyboard Shortcuts2:00
A list about the frequently used key combinations to make your work more efficient.

Requirements

You will need an interest in audio editing
You will need a computer with Audacity
You will need material to practice the information I gave you in this course

Description

Do you have a video podcast?

Do you have a Youtube channel for your own videos?

Do you want your audience to have the best user experience when it comes to audio?

Do you want to drive more sales with your video content?

Do you want to edit your videos with quality open source software?

Do you want to learn how much quality and knowledge is packed into open source software?

Do you want to get the “feeling” to intuitively choose the right tools for your content?

Do you want to learn a ton of tricks for Audacity?

If your answer was YES to some of the questions, this course might be of interest to you.

Audacity is THE audio editing software of choice.

Even Udemy recommends it as high quality audio editing software. Besides the high quality of the product, it is open source = FREE!

You can use Audacity to edit the quality of your audio tracks.

That means you can:

remove background noise and other undesired noise types
add effects like fade in
put special emphasis on certain parts of your audio track
adjust your voice
make gender specific adjustments
change pitch and tempo
and much more

To put it in a nutshell: Audacity is extremely versatile and a MUST for anybody producing high quality video content.

When I created this course I put full emphasis on a structured and didactically sound way to gently show you how audio editing works. This course is especially suited towards Instructors and Podcasters – but anybody working with audio content can benefit a great deal of this course.

I think that audio editing is much like an art. There are no fixed rules. It is a very intuitive task which you will get better in every time you practice it. In this tutorial I will show you what can be accomplished with Audacity once have got the right feeling.

High quality audio content is paramount to video based information products like online tutorials. Without high quality audio, you might not even get published on some platforms like Udemy. Simply spoken, Audacity will lead you to more sales.

Who this course is for:

If you have a video blog or a podcast, this course is for you!
If you create online courses or do online teaching with video on demand content, this course is for you!
If you create private videos and want your audio to be as clear as it gets, this course is for you!
If you want to upload high quality material on Vimeo or Youtube, this course is for you!

Audacity for Instructors and Podcasters - Audacity Mastery

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Course content

Set up5 lectures • 15min

Finding your way in Audacity6 lectures • 33min

Effects8 lectures • 53min

Workshop on audio improvement2 lectures • 9min

Time saving5 lectures • 22min

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