 Welcome back fellow techies to our latest tutorial video. I am The Technician Project and today's tutorial is in GarageBand. I'm going to talk you through a basic editing and mixing technique within GarageBand. This is down to importing and fading and exporting out of GarageBand whilst having some background music and cutting out a few blemishes within the tracks. So we're going to start our project. We're going to start a blank project. I'm just going to remove all those extra bits and we're going to insert two audio files from my desktop. Now I'm just going to minimize GarageBand and click and drag my audio files in. So the first one is now appearing. Just give it a bit of time to convert the file. So this is my podcast and I'm going to create a new track by double clicking underneath my audio file and import the second track which is the background music. Now you can do this during the recording process or you can do this after the recording which is called post-production. We're going to mute our bottom track, our audio and we're just going to crop the beginning of this file. Now I want the music to come in just after the drop in the waveform which you can see in the transients here and I want to move my timeline cursor in line where I want it to be cut. Go to edit and split region at playhead or press command T and I'm going to create a third track and just drag the excess file to the bottom of the third track just as a organization's hall really. And now I've got my music coming in and then my audio, my podcast playing. I'm just going to minimize the projects and make it smaller and go all the way to the end with the other audio file which I've moved to the bottom, the bit we cut off. I'm just going to drag it to the end of the project where I click our timeline cursor onto the screen and we're going to move it to the end and now I've got a blemish at the end I'm just going to cut off as you can see there and I want to make sure the end of my audio lines up with the beginning of my music and I'm just going to split this music at the end here. You can be a bit more precise the way you want to split. I'm just going to split it as I want it cut at the end. Right we're just going to zoom out of our project now. Now in this project we were recording and a fire alarm went off and we want to make sure we can cut to the fire alarm out. So I'm just going to search through the fire alarm, turn the click track off and the one two three four counter off and just search for the fire alarm. Should have time stamped immediately but you can somewhat work out with the audio waveforms where the fire alarm is going to come in. Not there. I think it was a little bit beforehand. Not there either. Let's see. Yeah, good luck with that. Just a ration. Just here. There we go. You can hear the fire alarm quite clearly and it's jumping in a bit suddenly so we're going to zoom in to make our edit a bit smoother as you can hear that's the fire alarm. We want to remove that. We stopped talking during the podcast so we can do some post-production. So we're going to select a file put a playhead cursor command T and we're going to select our file to just before this part of would you command T and then remove the middle bit and we're going to zoom back out again and now because we've already done the pre-edits of enabling the files in line fading out and fading in we're just going to shuffle our two audio tracks up so they stay in line with each other. Shuffle shuffle shuffle zoom in shuffle some more cut some beginning bits off shuffle some more. There we go. So that's better and now we're just going to unmute the second track and play and we're going to play some music and then the audio will come in now in my opinion they're too loud the audio is too loud and the podcast is too loud so we need to make a fade so we're going to go to mix and show automation or press a and once you press a you want to create two nodes your first node will be on the right hand side of your track if you're fading in and the left hand side of your track if you're fading out now this will make a crossfade in a sense of if you do a fade in on one track and a fade out of the other track you're crossfading the two tracks in so you don't want them to harsh and there we go so that's better they fade in nicely now i'm just going to shuffle that audio the top audio my podcast along a little bit and that's perfect that works really well now because we shuffled that along we're going to have to do the middle edit again we should really glue these together but we're going to make it a bit more complicated for ourselves put the timeline cursor down and zoom in which is command right to zoom in there we go happy with that we're going to scroll to the end and do the same fade in and fade out as we did on the track two as you can hear fading in of the bottom track audio three is very loud so we're going to just do the top one left hand right hand side do a quick slide down and then we do left hand side right hand side and slide that down so we're doing a fade in on the bottom and we're going to fade out at the end of this audio too just like that there we go so that music comes in nice and loud perfect the transition is great there so we're just going to zoom out so we have a whole project on view we're going to press command a which will select everything command a and then we're going to go to share and export songs to disk and we're going to select a wav format and a 16 bit cd quality and we're just going to name this podcast edit and press export now we're saving that to our desktop so i can show you future reference just going to wait for this footage exporting out right so our track is just finished editing out now we're just going to move the project to the left and there's our track on our desktop thanks for watching don't forget to like the video if you enjoyed it and subscribe for more and also ding dong that notification bell to get further updates thanks again goodbye