2015
Lynda
Garrick Chow
1:49
English

This course shows nonaudio professionals how to set up Audacity, a free audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and start recording live audio. Author Garrick Chow explores some of its most powerful and useful features in under two hours, getting you up and running with Audacity quickly. Discover how to set up mics and other audio input devices, and record one or more tracks simultaneously. The editing portion of the course shows you how to cut, copy, splice, or mix sounds together in seamless and interesting ways. Garrick also shows how to remove unwanted background noises, change the speed or pitch of a recording, and bleep out words.

Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files
1. Getting Started
What is Audacity?
Downloading and installing Audacity (Mac) UPDATED
Downloading and installing Audacity (Windows) UPDATED
Importing audio
Playing audio
2. Recording
Setting up your hardware
Creating a new project
Recording
Adding tracks
Recording to two tracks simultaneously
3. Basic Editing
Making selections
Cutting, copying, and pasting
Splitting clips
Automating volume with the Envelope tool and Auto Duck
Using common effects
Exporting your project
4. Common Tasks
Installing the LAME MP3 encoder UPDATED
Removing unwanted background noise
Using compression
Inserting silence
Bleeping out unwanted words and sounds
Conclusion
Goodbye

Download File Size:433.47 MB

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