Voice Over Editing

In todays session we looked at editing an audio file, we were all given the same file accessed from Minerva containing a voiceover describing how to use the Sony Z1 cameras.

Using Logic Pro on the Macs it was a process of going through the unedited file and taking out any mistakes, breaths and just any other bits we would not want to include in a final edit.

I opened the .aif file in Logic and began working through the audio. Using the scissor tool I was able to "cut out" sections and then delete them. On occassion Richard Wood (the man providing the voice over) would mess up and then repeat a section of the text, so cutting out and deleting the mess up it was just a case of moving the rest of the clip back into place, effectively joining up the gaps made by deleting bits.

After editing the clip, I "glued" all the sections of audio back together to create one audio track. After doing this I could then use "normalise" to normalise the levels of the track as a whole.

The next step was to export the file as a .wav file and then put it through another programme called Levelator.  It is a free programme used to automatically balance audio levels.

My final piece sounds something like this, I have also uploaded the original version so that you can hear the difference between the two files.