Editing Podcasts and Audiobooks with Audacity

If you are producing a podcast, you will almost certainly want to use Audacity to edit your audio files. Audacity is a free professional audio editing application for MAC or Windows computers.

If you are producing an audiobook or audio drama for distribution through Findaway.com or ACX.com and you are not working with a professional sound engineer, you may well decide to use Audacity as well.

Topics covered will include:

• A quick primer on how to record high quality audio including the need for “room tone”
  
• Properties of the WAV and MP3 file formats podcasters and audiobook producers need to know about.
  
• Information on where and how to buy non-P.R.O. music and sound fx for use in your projects.
  
• Recording Audio with Audacity
  
• Importing audio tracks into Audacity
  
• How to copy and move tracks between Audacity files.
  
• How to convert between stereo and mono tracks
  
• Deleting, copying, moving, and editing audio clips.
  
• Editing multi-track audio files.
  
• Fading audio in and out
  
• Reducing noise in a track.
  
• Adding silence to a track.
  
• Normalizing audio on a track.
  
• Exporting tracks to create finished MP3 files.
  

This document will be very useful to you if you are teaching writers, actors, and producers how to earn more from their work.