 Now we're going to go over editing with audacity, which is an open source software. So it's free. Nobody owns it You can download it for Windows and for Mac and so I'm just going to open it here and You can see right Okay, so I'm just going to go over the the the anatomy of the interface. So here's the menu bar along the top Here's the playback controls Here is tools for editing and viewing and you can see here Here's the the volume or the level meter for Input so you can actually record directly into audacity using a USB microphone like this one, which you can loan from the lab Here's the volume meter or level meter for recordings again the scale the units of measurement is decibels Okay, and then this right here is called the timeline and What I'm going to do and then at the bottom here You can set the project rate that that determines like the quality and also the file size And here's the timers that show you points within the track. So let's let's go ahead and just for demonstration I'll just go to oh, yeah, the menu the font menu is important. You open using that and also the effect menus Is really really useful. So we're going to import audio. So I've already gone ahead and Recorded something today this morning Where is it? this one Okay, and so it's good to take a little bit to look at how the playback works So right here if I click anywhere on the timeline the The device will play from that. So my favorite book is the catcher in the rye My JD Salinger. Yeah, so the blue the blue line here indicates the peak level. So maybe it's a bit high I want ideally you want the blue marker and maybe around the minus between the minus six decibels and minus six decibels And so here are the sound waves the amplitude or the height of the sound wave represents the volume Again, like I said, you click anywhere in the timeline to play from that spot just laughing But also crying the pause button it freezes the playhead at that spot. If I click The pause button again, it will unfreeze the very end the climax now the play button It doesn't really work the way that you might so if I click the play button what happened is it will play From wherever the bookmark is and by default the bookmark is at the beginning So watch when I press play see our place from here And I press stop The playhead disappears. Okay, so again Pause and unpause freezes the play hat at its current position play will make will play from wherever the bookmark is Okay, and so this little part here. I call the track head So you can see it's the file name of the track and extends the entire length And from here you can click and drag the track along the timeline. So this is again, this is the track head I call it. I don't know if that's the real name, but I call it that. I'm gonna call this part the track body So if I click anywhere on the track body see it sets the bookmark to that location Okay, if I want to select the entire track, I can either single-click the track head Right, or I can double-click the track body okay, and Here is the track specific Panel so I can mute the entire thing right away Or if I have multiple tracks within this project and I press solo it will mute every other track right and here is the Couple of scales I'm going too fast. Anybody have any questions? Okay, and so here is the the gain Positive or negative again, this represents the change to the volume Not the volume itself. So if the gain is at zero that means the volume is at its original Volume the baseline that doesn't mean that the volume is zero And then here you probably should ideally you wouldn't need to use it But you can adjust like the whether left side or right side if it's in a stereo mode You can there's a couple ways to do it. Let's just play it through here. So my favorite book is The catcher in the rye my JD Salinger. I first read this so there's a couple ways the easy cheap the cheap ways you could just oops you could Actually, I can't do it here. Okay, everybody you could you could do gain You could change the gain. Let's say let's set it to minus six and let's play it down is The catcher in the rye my JD Salinger. That's probably the easiest way to do it. I First read this book Years ago in high school So I would have been around the same age as the main character Over the the course of the story note that you have to stop if you want to make stop the track If you want to make any changes, but let's say instead of zero what you another thing to do is You can select the entire track So either single-click the track head or like I said double track double-click the track body And let's go to the effect menu and then look for Noise reduction Okay, oh wait, never mind wrong effect Where is it normalize normalize And then See the options normalize the peak amplitude. Let's say minus six decimals Then I can preview So it's good like don't just rely on yours. You line your eyes like watch the The level meter because that's absolute. It's not based on your perception of the volume. It's So yeah, let's see here. Okay. So yeah, we'll go with that Then let's try playing my favorite book is The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger He gives me be too low now first read this book Years ago in high school So I would have been around the same age as the main character over the the course of the story Okay, let me let me do that again. So so I'm gonna Select the whole track by clicking the track head and then go to the effect menu. Let's go to normalize Instead of minus six decibels. Let's just set to minus three So it means that like the peak will the peak will be at minus three decibels, okay another useful trick is Let's say there's background noise and you want to filter that out Good one thing to do is remember how I say it's good to have like five to ten seconds at the beginning and end of your track Of just nothing. So let's say there's a fan going off or there's like someone mowing their lawn or whatever You can what you do is you Select that portion from the track by clicking and dragging Okay And then I mean ideally you there wouldn't be any that type of thing you with proper You know scouting and preparation you wouldn't have to but let's say you do so you select it Yeah, the portion that has the baseline I guess And you go to the effect menu and then select noise reduction You see the little dialogue window here step one select a few seconds of just noise So Dastry knows what to filter out and click noise profile. So think about as a sample. You're getting a sample And so you click noise profile and then I kind of it's not really intuitive because when you click click Noise profile the dialogue window disappears. But the next thing you're supposed to do is Select the portion the entire portion that you want to treat. Okay, so in this case we want to treat the entire track So again single click the track head or double click the track body to select the entire track Then you go back to the effect menu Noise reduction and then from here you would do it so you can preview if you want Yeah, you can you can get them. I mean we don't have any at this time We don't have any win because windshields. We don't have any windshields for this device, but like for example That's what this lapel mic does and the The red box there's a windshield for those. Yeah, that's a different type of mic. It's not a recorder. It's a mic What's what else let's say here I first read this book Years ago in high school So I would have been around the same age as the main character over the course of the story Okay, another thing to do is maybe you want to Remove or move sections of the track. So let's see here. So here. Let me just play out So my favorite book is The catcher in the rye by JD Salinger. I First read this book Years ago in high school. So I would have been around the same age as the main character over the the course of the story Okay, so let's see how you notice how here toward the beginning of the track I say what my favorite book is maybe during the editing process I think it's a better story to move that to the end. So there's a little bit of suspense, right? So I'm talking about My favorite book and then you're like, okay, what book is it and then then bang at the end So maybe that's a you decide that's a more compelling story. So maybe what we want to move that clip to the end So where where is that? Oops first read this book so my favorite book is The catcher in the rye. Okay, so let's say Again, if you want to create a split you just single click on the track body to put the bookmark there And then right click Anywhere on the track and you want to go to split clip. You can also use the keyboard shortcut So on Mac, it's command I windows control I Okay, and then I'm going to split here What a bookmark here, right? So single click on the track body and then right click to split the clip and let's say this right here I don't I don't really want it, right? So I could do two things I could select that entire portion again single click the track head or double click the track body to select it and What I could do is using the toolbar so this tool is selection tool That's the main thing you'll be using you probably don't need to do use the other tools unless you're more advanced Let's see this tool right here Where is it this one right here? mute It's kind of I don't know if you can see it Silence audio selection so you could do that or maybe just select it in this press do delete or back under keyboard And then you notice right here. There's this gap in the track So I don't want like five seconds of nothing. So I'm gonna have to drag everything over Again, we single click the track head or actually no, we don't we move the cursor to the track head that makes the Grab icon appear so we can again move it along timeline Again, actually again, I wanted this to be toward the end because this is the part where I say what my favorite book is So I'm gonna just click and drag to the end here a lot Why am I not able to Okay, oh Hey, yeah, and then oh good. Yeah, thanks So what I did was I wasn't able to manually drag it. It was you you right click on the the Yeah, cut it and then You right click in the space Not on the not on the track itself, but in the space within the track mar And then oh wait, hold on Cut Okay, you have to click to set the bookmark there and that's where oh There's not enough room so I have to drag the track over there. Yeah Okay, I Didn't know that thanks. Yeah, I don't really use a density, but it is fairly popular. So let's do that Okay Paste Okay All right, and you notice how you can drag the track beyond the start Right, but you can also just make sure you just line up with the Yeah Okay, so what did we go over we looked at Making universal reversal change the volume using this little gain scale. That's probably the quickest way another thing we looked at is using the effect menu specifically the normalized function We also looked at What else noise reduction again from the effect menu and yeah, so it's at 330. So we're an hour if you need to go That's really it only thing you might want to do is using fade in fade out so again, if you want to fade in and fade out you can Highlight a selection on the track body and Again, so if you want a more abrupt fade the selection will be narrower But if you want a more gradual fade either fade in or out you want the selection to be a bit longer So maybe let's start here. That's good. So effect menu and then fade in Okay, and then let's do it for the end here. Let's try here the catcher in the rye Okay, yeah Now if you want to add music, okay, let's say I already picked a song so you're going to import. Oh Yeah, so I forgot to mention so before you go if you want to save this project you go to file Say project say project and you notice how you see this dollar window say project is for undacity project Not an audio file for an audio file that will open in other apps use export So this final file format is proprietary and you can only open it in undacity the project file So let's save it to the desktop But if I want to export this I just go to file export and Then I can pick a standard standalone audio format So let's do that as the edited Okay, go to okay, and let's say I want to add music Or like another track you just again stay within the project and go to import audio And we'll pick this song from Indie rock band explosions in the sky anybody heard of them No And you see it's it's pretty loud, so I'm gonna play here just I Cried it wasn't anything particularly tragic. Here's more of a happy sadness, but the song is too loud Again, I can just reduce the volume. So let's maybe I Think we set this to normalize at to peak at minus three decibels Was it so maybe I would select this entire track So I'm gonna sing I'm gonna click single click on the track head go to the effect menu Where is it normalized? So minus three is it saved the previous setting. So maybe I don't know minus 12 I Minus Let's try preview Okay, maybe I need to be lower. So maybe I'm just double. Let's try 24 again, this is kind of more Or an art in a science. So maybe Not minus 16. Let's try that Preview, okay. Let's yeah, let's give that a go So see how the amplitude changed, right? So maybe let's just give it up in high school. So I would have been I first read this book Years ago in high school. So I would have been around the same age as the main character over the course of the story Okay, I think maybe it's too low You know, I just press control Zed or use the edit menu to undo or redo things Let's try again single click Trackhead to pick the whole track effect Let's see here normalize Maybe just go back to minus 12 That could fly Okay, and maybe you see how there's the beginning of track. There's kind of this dead air So maybe I want to clip it off So we single click on the track body to set the bookmark there again, right click anywhere to split the kit and Then let's just delete this And then this here And then let's do a little fade in Oops, sure, that's good. And then again, we have our selection effect menu fade in And then Let's click on the Music track so it aligns at the bookmark lines with the end of the the speech track split clip and Let's get rid of the rest and then we're gonna fade out. So let's pick Selection click and drag effect Effect menu will fade out Okay, now let's let's give a play. I first read this book Years ago in high school. So I would have been around the same age as the main character over the course of the story I remember just being kind of surprised by the the conversational tone of the writing and just kind of the funny and memorable situations that the main character gets himself into and just Laughing but also crying at the very end the climax of the story I won't spoil it, but just a relationship that the community character has with certain family member kind of mirrors my own situation and just I Cried he wasn't anything particularly tragic. He was more of a happy sadness, but I remember just really balling at the end but over the course of the story kind of looking back just besides amusement and Sadness happy sadness. I would say like just reassurance, you know Just sharing the same kind of worldview and outlook as the main character at that point in my life is just really reassuring and I've read it several times. I used to read it like On your z from front to back is kind of a tradition of mine. I haven't read it in years But I really don't need to just because it's it's so ingrained in my memory So my favorite book is the catcher in the rye Yeah Cool, let's save it. I would tinker with some more, but that's just for demonstration purposes Save project and like I said Let's say I want to license that song so I go to that band's website Explosions I'm gonna do it right now Explosions in the sky. Anybody heard of the band? No So I go to the website Yeah, and then Explosions in this explosions in the sky. So you actually see here. There's a license thing. Where is it license request form? I'm just gonna fill it out right now digit your cue York University Production company and a yeah, so anybody have any questions That's pretty much all the content I can think of Distributor and a Are we a charitable organization? No, we're not we're not a profit, but not a charitable organization email Wait, why is it making me say email? York you dot ca phone Bit.ly So does anybody so you mentioned that he'll have the a Podcast assignment coming up to do any of you have anything like that? Yeah, so I'll put the wrong discord if you're on discord, but I can email to you What I'm gonna try to do is like combine this audio recording with this Screen recording as well, but worst-case scenario. I'll just give you the slides. Oh Yeah, and of course there's a References at the end like a good librarian. We have the cider sources and so forth And yeah, yeah, cool Yeah So I will email to you