Speed Up Your Podcast Editing Without Sacrificing Quality Or Sanity

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- How much is that?

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(all groaning)

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- And welcome to the Podcast Editors Mastermind,

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the podcast dedicated to the business side

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of podcast editing.

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I am Daniel Abendrath.

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You can find me at Rothmedia.audio.

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- And I'm Jennifer Longworth.

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You can find me at bourbonbarrelpodcasting.com.

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- Awesome. Well, welcome to the show.

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Thank you everybody for joining.

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And if you're listening to the podcast,

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Tonight, we are going to be talking about

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ways to speed up your editing process.

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So if you have any tips or tricks

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or any questions you want to discuss,

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please drop it in the comments,

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either on Facebook or YouTube,

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All right, so Jennifer,

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this is actually your idea to cover this topic

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because you're going to talk on it soon?

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- Yeah, so Steve Stewart always talks about

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how we should pitch more editing talks for conferences,

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so we'll get picked because there's not enough editing talk.

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So I'm like, okay, what can I talk about that

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I think will get picked?

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And I thought, well, what about speeding up

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the editing process?

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And Podcast Movement picked it.

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And I'm like, great, now I got to write a talk,

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and I haven't done that yet.

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So like, what are we going to talk about tonight?

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I'm like, ah, I got an idea.

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- I think it's a great topic.

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The faster you edit, the, I mean,

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'cause like time is money, yada, yada, yada.

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But like per hour, you can be making more money,

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less stress, you can take on more clients

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and just have a better, more efficient process

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if you can figure out ways to speed up your editing process.

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- And it's like the number one question I get

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from other editors is how do I speed up?

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I mean, I did a panel discussion locally.

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Oh gosh, mate, it's been quite a few years ago now.

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And afterwards, someone's like, how do I get faster

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at editing?

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Hate to tell everyone this, but the number one way

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is to just do it and practice and get better.

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But that's not what you want to hear.

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(laughing)

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- Yeah, we want something tangible.

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But because like the biggest thing you can do

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is just learn your software and learn its ins and outs

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and like what all it can do.

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'Cause that's what it kind of comes down to

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is like the ability to use whatever tool that you chose.

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- So I jotted down some things that I've learned

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over the years that have sped up my process.

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But the first thing that popped into my head was

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if you're using iZotope's RX, using their batch process,

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which if you're not familiar, what you can do is you can set

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up like your process change to put in your voicey noise

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or your multi-click or whatever.

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And then whenever a new client sends you their audio,

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you can just drag it into the process,

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hit go and not have to worry about it.

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But it's really useful 'cause like if you have repeat

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client same person every week, you can easily kind of

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fine tune what, you know, how much voicey noise

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you're gonna need, what their EQ is gonna be

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and just run the process each week on their audio.

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- I call that my pre-wash 'cause I do that too.

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And like everybody gets a basic pre-wash

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because like mouth noise, yeah, everybody does that.

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- Yup. - To a certain extent.

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And I watched a tutorial video once the RX did it

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and they're like, here's some basic baseline settings

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you can use for these things if you're too lazy

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to dial it in, this will take care of most people.

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I'm like, sounds good, boom.

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So that's my pre-wash, yeah.

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- And it's really handy.

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So like I have a client who basically he's like

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two months ahead, so it's really convenient.

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So instead of like spending all that time trying to clean up

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like eight episodes, I can just drag them all

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into this batch process, run it and then move on

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to something else.

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- Yup. - So one thing that I've

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learned is about project templates and there's something

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that I do in Reaper and I'm assuming there might be

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similar feature in other DAWs or you can simply just say

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like a blank project, make a copy of it and then open it,

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whatever DAW you're using.

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But basically what I do is pre-wash NRX for every client

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and then when I get into Reaper, that's where I do

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my compression or like final EQ or like different

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other things and typically it's gonna be very similar

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week in, week out for each client.

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So I'll just have like a track in the project

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with all my plugins that I'm gonna be using on that client

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as well as like their intro and outro is already

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in the tracks.

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So whenever I go to start a new episode,

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I just open the project template and I have everything

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I need for that client rather than going in,

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bringing in all the media each and every time

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and then bringing in all my plugins that I know

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I'm gonna use for every episode.

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- Yeah, I haven't done that yet.

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You know, I've been editing for eight years and I still.

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(laughing)

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It took me a while and one problem I have is like,

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I'll tweak something one week and not update my template

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so the next week I have to do it again.

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But it just saves a little bit of time but it also kind of

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eliminates some of like the tediousness that comes with

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like just the repetitive task and it kind of helps me

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not forget.

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So like I have one client who updates her outro

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every few weeks and so this way I can just like update

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the template so I know like what we're doing this time.

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- Bryan says templates, yes, I even have template folders

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for each show so that I have places for all the assets

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as well as the template file.

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Hey, where'd it go?

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Oh no, a template file for the actual edit.

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- Yeah, I love using project templates and also in Reaper

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you can do track templates as well,

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which I haven't gotten into but like I have,

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what's useful with that is my like intro and outro

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and like assets like that for, like if I'm doing video

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with the client, it's gonna be different with the audio

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versus video so I can have like different track templates

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that I can bring in for each episode.

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Patrick said my first template and audition came out

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of necessity when I got my road caster.

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What was the necessity with that?

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- Yeah, I'm curious.

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As far as speeding up your editing, always work your

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timestamp request from your end to the beginning

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and I learned this when I was working in a radio show

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actually and if you start your timestamp set to be a

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set to beginning, it's gonna mess up all the rest

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of the timestamps so you have to work backwards

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when you're working with timestamps.

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- Look, caveat to that is if you use Notetrax,

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so if you're not familiar, Notetrax is a kind of review

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thing so basically you upload your audio to Notetrax

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and it creates like this project where you can leave

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comments on the audio file.

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I use it with my assistant so when I edit a show,

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I send it to her, she uploads it to Notetrax

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and she listens through and to catch any edits

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that I might have missed and then she'll leave a comment

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with what it is or if you have a client that you do

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a lot of revisions with, they can do the same thing

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so they go into Notetrax, make the comments on what they

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want edited and then if you use Audacity Reaper Edition

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but basically you can download the comments

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and then import them into your DAW and then it shows it

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on your timeline in your editing software.

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- Oh, okay and that will move with it?

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- Yeah, yeah so if you do like ripple,

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turn on like the ripple deletes,

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whenever you delete something, everything moves forward.

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If you set it up properly then the timestamps

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or the markers will move with it.

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So it's Audacity, Hennenberg, Reaper and Audition.

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So cool little thing there.

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- Nice.

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So my next tip is faster playback speed.

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Just like listening to or editing the show

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at a faster speed, obviously you'll get through it faster

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and like any more, like I can't listen at normal speed

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when I'm editing, it's just way too slow.

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Typically what I do is I listen at 1.5.

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If it's any faster then like I tend to miss stuff.

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Yeah, I know like some people like edit like two times faster

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and they'll say, I can't go that fast.

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I think mine's probably 1.5 as well.

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But I don't do it as frequently as I used to.

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And I guess, I mean, there's some clients

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who I can do fast on and sometimes I just can't.

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I'm like, you just missed it, I gotta go back.

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I don't know if it's their voice or their topic or what

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but it's like, okay, I can't do you on fast speed.

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- Yeah, if the speaker doesn't enunciate well

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or if they already speak pretty fast

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that makes it that much more difficult.

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Another downside to faster editing,

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depending on your software is the pitch.

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So like it speeds it up.

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It's like chipmunky sound, really high pitched.

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Reaper has a cool feature to where you can,

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it'll fix that where like it'll drop the pitch

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to where it sounds normal, but just sped up.

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- Yeah.

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- Just very useful.

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- Okay, so Patrick says, the only time I speed up

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is when I'm listening to my final edit

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for show notes and timestamps.

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That's fair.

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- That makes sense.

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- So another way to get faster, and this is so obvious

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but yeah, I did I do this before is the keyboard shortcuts.

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Before I got my gamer mouse,

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my right hand stayed on my mouse

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and my left hand stayed on the left hand side

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of the keyboard, so all of my editing happens

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on this hand, so ripple delete, zoom in, zoom out,

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everything like that.

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And I just don't know, I'm like,

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I know it took me a while before I set those things up.

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What the heck was I doing?

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(laughing)

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That's why it takes five hours for a 15 minute episode.

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- I remember when I first started using Reaper,

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I didn't know how to do any of the functions.

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So I wanted to cut something instead of highlighting

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and deleting it, I would have to click

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on where I wanted the edit, split the track,

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drag the track to cut the end,

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and then drag everything back to eliminate that dead air.

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It was a nightmare before I finally figured out

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what the keyboard shortcuts were

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and how to customize my own.

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Another cool thing about Reaper is that you can essentially

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create macros, they call them action chains,

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but if I have a really loud breath,

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I have one button that I hit, so I highlight the breath,

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hit one button, and then I split it on either side

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of the highlight and then drops it 10 DB

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to make whatever that part is quieter.

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So Reaper has a lot of functionality

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where you can create your own custom keyboard shortcuts

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as well as macros and whatnot.

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- And it's an extension of the keyboard shortcut

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based on the recommendations of many, many

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in the podcast editor club, but game changing now,

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now I just one-handed editing in this hand,

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'cause like I got one hand in my pocket

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and the other one's editing a podcast.

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- Yeah, the only thing I wish this one had,

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it's like my old mouse, I had like,

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there was a button kind of next to,

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like he has like the one and two,

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then there was like one up to the side

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that I would use for like to pause playback,

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which I don't really have a button set up right now,

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but pretty much like 95% of my editing

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I can do with my mouse, which is really convenient

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whenever my cat wants attention and like to curl up

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and have to hold it with one arm,

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I can still keep editing with my other hand.

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- Yep, cats will do that,

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come and lay on top of the keyboard

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so you couldn't use the keyboard even if you wanted to.

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- Patrick uses a track pad, which I've heard good things.

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I think Tom Kelly does too,

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which is probably a good idea for us,

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'cause like a normal mouse can cause like carpal tunnel

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and just a lot of issues that a track pad can solve.

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Not a bad idea.

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I think it'd be hard for me to give up my 12.

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- Yeah, I can't, I only use eight of my buttons.

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I don't go to the other side, but still, yeah.

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- I use all 12 of mine. (laughs)

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- Patrick says he sucks at speeding up his editing.

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Maybe this episode will inspire you to do greatness, Patrick.

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- Even more greatness, not that you're not already great.

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- That's true, that's true.

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- So my next tip is just to be organized.

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So actually my wife and I were talking with some friends

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just about like how different our file system is,

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'cause she's like not super organized with the computer files

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and like I'm very, especially like when it comes

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to my clients, like I have like in Dropbox,

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I have like my podcast folder.

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Within that folder, every client has their own folder.

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And then in every client folder there is assets.

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So like intro, outro, music, any video clips, whatnot.

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Raw media, where is a temporary hold

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for like the files they send me.

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Graphics, like their artwork,

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they have any headshots I need for their website

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or anything like that.

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And then project files.

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And that project files is a separate folder

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for each episode.

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And each folder there is my autosave, my backup files,

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my, and then like a media folder for all the things.

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And then, so each episode is split up and separated.

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And so like, no matter what client it is,

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I know exactly where I need to go to find their music

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or any of their assets or anything.

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- I hadn't even thought about that

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as being like a thing to consider.

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I'm not an organized person outside of the computer,

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but when it comes to my files, for podcast files,

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it's kind of organized kind of like what you said.

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I have the big file, the little file,

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and everybody has their individual show files.

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And then, yeah.

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Yeah, of course the unfortunate thing right now

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is that I have people who insist on using Google Drive

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and not Dropbox.

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So then I have to download from whatever.

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- I only have one client that uses Google Drive.

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It's always been a nightmare,

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especially when it comes to like sharing.

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'Cause like the permissions with Google Drive,

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like it's very annoying.

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- Yeah, I wish, I mean, I tell them I prefer Dropbox,

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but I'm not strict enough on it to make them use Dropbox.

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And I don't know, like, well, I don't have to pay

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if I use Google Drive.

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I'm like, but you just.

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- My big issue is whenever I like,

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you know, I upload it to their folders,

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I'm still like the owner.

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- Right.

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- So I delete the files, like it's gone forever.

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And so like my Google Drive is constantly maxed out

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because I'm still the owner on all these files.

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The last one, so kind of like same thing

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with like organization.

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This one isn't really like editing specific,

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but just kind of being more efficient

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with your entire workflow is just having some sort

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of project manager system.

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So like I use Airtable with like some Zapier integration.

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So that way, whenever, if a client wants to like send me

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a new episode, they fill out their Airtable form

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or whatever, and then that sends me everything I need,

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like their show title, their show notes,

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their audio files, everything.

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And then it keeps it organized based on like

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when it gets published, what the status of it is.

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Like if I've just gotten the files

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or if I've started editing it or like if it's edited,

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I'm waiting on the client to review and approve it

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or whatever stage of the process, like it's all in there.

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So that way I'm not wasting time trying to figure out

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what my workload looks like,

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like what shows I need to be working on,

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what my status is on each one.

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So it's just like being able to like stay organized

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just kind of takes a lot of time wasting out of my business

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as a whole.

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- I'm still not there yet on systems.

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(laughs)

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Which is wild because you have a bunch of contractors now,

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right?

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- Yes, yeah.

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And I use Basecamp with one of them

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after talking to Daryl on that episode.

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So I use Basecamp with one of them,

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but the other two are in Dropbox and it's like,

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but the Basecamp one has, she has the biggest load,

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so it's easier and she likes seeing the deadlines

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and it keeps us both on track and everything.

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So we do that.

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But as far as having, I've talked to another editor

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who also has her clients upload directly to Asana

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or wherever her project management, I'm like, gosh,

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I would have to retrain a heck of a lot of people.

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- That is the challenge is trying to get all your clients

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to use your system.

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My wife and I have some projects in the pipeline

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and everybody who's not aware,

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like my wife and our business partners in the business,

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but we don't have a good way of keeping track of everything.

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So like we'll have like weekly meetings,

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but then it's like, hey, what did we talk about here?

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'Cause she's a much better note taker.

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So I'm like, hey, what did we talk about this?

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Blah, blah, blah.

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And there's like no good way for us

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to keep track of everything.

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So we're looking into using Notion,

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which is a super robust system,

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but like I'm very overwhelmed by trying to figure out

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how to use it.

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It's super customizable.

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So now I'm like in the process of moving away from Airtable

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'cause the pricing for Notion makes more sense than Airtable.

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So I'm looking to move everything over to Notion,

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but that means getting all my clients

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to start using a new platform,

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which I am not looking forward to.

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- Yeah, good luck.

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I remembered my big tip.

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And I got this, I stole it from somebody else,

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but you know how we always say fix it and post?

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The way to speed up your editing is to fix it in pre.

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Just record it right the first time.

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Don't hit the table, don't record in your bathroom,

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don't do that too many times in the microphone.

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Sorry.

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Just be aware of your mic technique and everything

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and it'll make your editing go a lot faster

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if you're editing your own stuff,

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if you record it right the first time.

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That's my biggest tip to speeding up your editing.

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- Oh, I just thought of another thing.

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In Reaper it's called Auto Trim Split.

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I forget what it's called in other platforms.

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Oh, like Strip Silence.

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So I have one client who she'll say a sentence

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and there'll be a 10 or 15 second pause

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before she gets her thoughts together.

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So it'll be like an hour plus audio,

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I'll be like an hour, five, hour and 10 minutes.

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And then if I run like this script that I have,

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it's like Strip Silence,

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usually eliminates between like 20 and 30 minutes

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of just dead air.

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- Dang, whoa.

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- Yeah. - Wow.

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- So if you have clients with a lot of dead air,

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trying to like manually cut all that is a huge time sink.

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So if your DAW has some sort of Strip Silence feature,

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that I know that saved me a ton of time,

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especially with this client.

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- How do you feel about text-based editors?

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- I'm not opposed to it because like my wife,

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she does a lot of content editing, a lot.

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She does some content editing, but she uses a script.

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And so that way she can kind of go through and just delete.

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I think on like a macro level,

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or like if you're trying to arrange an episode,

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I think it's really good being able to like copy and,

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cut and paste entire paragraphs, whatever,

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move them around or like cutting big chunks of audio.

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And there's a lot of times where like,

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I'll go, like I'll finish editing an episode

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and then either like my client had sent like a note

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being like, "Hey, at this point I mentioned this,

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cut that part out and I forget until afterwards."

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Or there'll be like something where like,

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I need to cut something specific.

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And it's like trying to find that spot in Reaper

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is a huge task, especially if it's a long episode.

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So I can just like throw in the script and just do fine,

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type in whatever word or phrase I'm looking for

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and see the exact timestamp,

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then go back into Reaper and edit there.

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So I think like text-based has a lot of usefulness,

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just not quite to the point of being a sole tool.

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'Cause I do have a client who like,

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I go through and I make my edits,

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I send it to her 'cause she likes to fine tune it,

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but I upload it to the script for her

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and then she'll go through and make the edit she wants.

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And then I didn't have to go in afterwards

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and fix like the timing 'cause like,

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it'll cut too much silence or it'll cut

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in the middle of a word or like a breath.

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And so I need to go and like polish it.

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But like as a tool, I think it's really good.

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- Cool, yeah, that's kind of my theory on it too

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for big, big chunks.

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It speeds things up.

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If you think you're gonna save time

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and remove all your filler words with the script,

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it's gonna take you 10 times long

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to fix all the awkward cuts, the jump cuts.

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- Yeah, when the script was fairly new,

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I tried doing that, like uploading it,

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cut filler words and then bring it to the Reaper

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to do the rest of the editing.

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Yeah, and it was just trying to fix all the bad edits

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was a huge task.

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I think I did it twice before I just gave up.

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- Oh, that's a good one.

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So Steve said, did you talk about having two

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or three monitors?

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- We did not.

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- That's really useful.

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Not so much like for me when I'm editing,

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but just my workflow overall,

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being able to have like my main thing on my main monitor

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and then having like folders, whatever,

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like Word docs on my second monitor.

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And I have to like flip between windows all the time.

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Well worth the investment.

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I have two monitors in my office at work,

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but I have just a really big monitor here at home.

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- I've seen people like with like the ultra-wise

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and look so nice.

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I do have a curved monitor, which I don't notice it anymore,

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but it's a nice little thing,

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kind of make it a little bit easier.

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So if anybody has any more tips or tricks,

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please drop into the chat and we'll cover them before we go.

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So in a little bit, we'll do our chat GPT question

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of the episode, the stream, but just a quick preview.

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We actually are a little bit prepared.

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So in two weeks, barring any life events

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or catastrophes or whatever,

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we will be back live streaming right here

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on Facebook and YouTube.

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And we'll be talking about video podcasting

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and all that that entails,

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- Yes, well, probably not, but I was ready in a little bit.

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- It's a fun one this week.

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- Okay, good.

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- So the chat GPT question of the stream,

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I had to ask it what's a unique question

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or else it gives me the same thing every time.

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So I said, I need a unique question.

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And it says, if you could create a new sense for humans,

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what would it be?

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And how do you think it would change

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the way we perceive the world?

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I'm gonna drop that in the...

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- Oh, I got a missing comment.

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So Patrick says, he's still wanting to try

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a wide screen monitor.

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Same, they can be pricey.

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I think mine, I have a big one, but it's not super wide.

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And then Steve says, exactly,

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big monitor in the middle for editing folders, notes,

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et cetera, on the side monitor.

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Now, Steve, based on your comment,

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I'm assuming you have three monitors,

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which is something I've wanted to do for a long time.

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I just haven't actually been able to.

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- Yeah, it is a difficult question.

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That's why Daniel's alluding it.

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If you could create a new sense for humans,

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what would it be?

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And how do you think it would change

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the way we perceive the world?

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I'm like, is that like spidey sense?

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- That'd be good.

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Like what popped into my mind at first,

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I don't know how good or like the ramifications

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of such a thing, but the ability to sense like a person's

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and like real intention.

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Yeah, so almost kind of like the inability to lie,

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but it's just like, you can tell when somebody,

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you can sense when they're not being sincere

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or meaning what they're saying

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or something along those lines.

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- This is hard 'cause it makes you think outside of your,

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like, I don't, I'm like, oh, I'd love to have an eye

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in the back of my head, but that's not a new sense.

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That's just a new way.

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(laughing)

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- Extra sight.

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- Extra sight, like, okay, like extra sight,

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like enhance my vision.

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But I'm not sure how to come up

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with something completely new there.

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- It's a challenge.

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So Patrick asks, is being able to teleport a sense

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or bio location?

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- Those are like super powers.

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- I don't know if that's a sense, but I'll accept it.

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That'd be pretty cool.

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- Here's an easier question.

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- Okay.

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- What's your favorite way to spend a rainy day?

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Mine's sleeping, hello.

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- Something relaxing, either just like the windows open,

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like reading or just like chilling on the couch

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or the video game or something.

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- Steve says, I'm with Patrick from the previous question.

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I want to twinkle my nose, like bewitched

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and transport to another place in the world.

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I think that would be pretty sweet,

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but Patrick also says, yeah, go ahead.

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- I just like for all my senses to work fully.

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- Yes.

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- As somebody that has a little bit of tinnitus

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and has to wear glasses, I am 100% with you.

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- Yeah.

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- Patrick likes to spend his rainy days

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with coffee, nap and book.

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- Absolutely.

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- Or cross stitching.

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I crawl up on the couch with like a movie,

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some coffee and just like cross stitching.

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- You cross stitch?

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- I do.

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- That's cool.

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- So I guess here's kind of like another trick with Reaper,

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having like multiple instances of my DAW open.

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So whenever I like start rendering an episode,

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I can open a new like instance of Reaper

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and start editing another episode while it renders.

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'Cause before what I would do is like,

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'cause it would take me five or 10 minutes

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to render an episode.

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I start cross stitching during that downtime.

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- Oh.

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- Now I can just like move on to the next episode.

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- That's cool.

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- All right, so Jennifer,

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if somebody wants to be a guest on this show,

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what do they need to do?

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- They need to go to podcasteditormastermind.com

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and click be a guest and then tell us

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why they want to be a guest.

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And we'll say, okay, come on.

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Or just approach one of us and tell us

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you want to be a guest.

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- Yeah, we're always looking for new topic ideas.

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So if you're an expert in something

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that you really think people need to hear,

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or if you're looking for help on something

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you're struggling with in your own business, reach out.

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We would love to have you on the show.

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That is it for tonight's episode.

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I am Daniel Abendroth.

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You can find me at RothMedia.audio.

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- And I'm Jennifer Longworth.

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You can find me at bourbonbarrelpodcasting.com.

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- And not with us tonight, Bryan Entzminger.

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You can find him at toptieraudio.com

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and Carrie, you can find at Carrie.land.

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Thank you so much for joining us.

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Or if you're listening to this in the future,

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thanks so much for that.

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And we will see you next time.

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- How much is that?

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(mimics snoring)

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- No.

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