Audiobook Editing in Audacity

The least glamorous part of audiobook production (by far) is editing your raw audio into a deliverable, finished product. It's thankless work but someone's got to do it... and if an engineer isn't in the budget then that someone? Is you.
So make things easy on yourself! Watch this video for a bevy of tips and tricks to make audiobook editing as efficient (and painless) as possible. What's more, by the end of it your audio will meet ACX submission standards!
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[@MrLdjwriter1]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!

[@nixbuongiorno]

To make the selecting for deleting easier press the Z key. It adjusts the selection to the nearest 0 crossing.

[@susanthomas7585]

Great video!

[@brendonkinch5667]

I really appreciate you making this video. I have been training daily in my voice booth. I have a day job at the moment and I am working on being at least partially self employed through voice acting by the end of 2024. This video gives me some good solutions and new methods that help so much to reduce the amount of editing work and the resulting frustration that go along with that. Thanks a lot. These videos help me to improve my skills and maintain confidence in turning this into an actual career. I have seen a few of your other videos and they're good too. I found your channel last week through the UA-cam algorithm.

[@killervoicestudios3973]

Thanks man! I feel you, I have a day job too and it can feel like a lot trying to balance voice acting and everything else. The main thing is to just keep at it. You can absolutely make it work!

[@RoadVoices]

After learning and using "punch and roll" at times, I too find have found that the "clicker" method seems more practical.

[@user-qq7eo2xd3p]

I've started to do most of my editing by looking at the Spectrogram instead of just the waveform. I'm sure there's much more I can learn about this but I haven't been able to find many videos. It's hard to believe that at my level I'm much beyond a beginner, but I'm having trouble finding anything that I don't already know. So if anyone can share some links it would be appreciated.