Learning the Hard Way - Podcast Editing
Most of you hopefully know already, I'm a part of a podcast, the +4 XP Podcast. At the moment it's just the three of us ladies going over various news items from the gaming industry and providing our thoughts and opinions on the topics. It's loads of fun and something I've always wanted to do, not to mention it's proving to be quite helpful for me to be outspoken, I'm quite shy.
So I was provided the opportunity this weekend to edit the podcast, I gladly accepted, I love challenges, I love learning, you never know when stopping to learn something is going to come in handy eventually. It's almost my downfall as I'm super detailed, I want to know the reason why behind every action in the process.
I began my morning around 8:00 AM and downloaded a free program, Audacity. Upon opening I immediately threw in the MP3 file and began looking at my options, in absolute confusion of course. Every time I ran in to a minor issue I eventually over came and was able to move on from the small bit of congratulatory satisfaction I received from figuring it out. Haha! I bested you Audacity!
Oh no, it was quickly apparent I was not the winner in this war between Audacity and I. I came upon the issue of splitting and moving that now split half of the file to a later point in time. I tried everything I could think of! The darn thing kept merging itself back to the first half of the clip, it would end up moving the entire clip even though I had only selected the second half. I was slowly descending in to madness. You know, that touch of crazy with a hint of extreme anger?
I had checked the two video editing programs I use to see if they would allow me to use the things that I'm already familiar with when creating my YouTube videos. Nope, neither one allowed me to export to MP3 and one wouldn't even allow me to edit without a video file even being there.
I finally text the co-host who normally edits the podcast, "What program do you use to edit the podcast?" After texting back and forth it was obvious, I did not have the tools I needed. She suggested I use the free trial of Avid, see how I feel about the program and that it should easily allow me to edit. I'm currently 22 minutes away from the download being complete and it's now 10:00 AM.
Have to admit, writing this and taking a minute to think over the past two hours, it's pretty funny. Another one of my downfalls reared it's ugly head, once I become ultimately frustrated with something, I want to flip a desk and never look it in the face ever again. Horrible right? You can't just quit and give up entirely because you didn't get your way.
I was about ready to throw editing the podcast out the window entirely because a little program called Audacity decided it was going to be difficult with me. Oh Krysten!
I guess I'm writing this out to share a little insight, what happens from time to time behind the scenes of the various forms of entertainment that is the end result you enjoy. You can now listen to the Tuesday episode on the 4th and chuckle to yourself, "Man, Krysten almost sent herself to the loony bin trying to edit this episode."
If you'll excuse me now, I must go take a shower, make some coffee and uninstall Audacity from my PC. Never again Audacity! Never! I'll chalk this one up as win!
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