JOB: Podcast audio editor
The LCS Podcast needs audio editors to transform raw audio into well-cut, polished final products.
Raw audio is provided as m4a format audio, channel separated. Typical interviews are 90 minutes and cut down to 50. Unusual ones may be as long as 2 hours or as short as 15 minutes.
There are two aspects to this; you can do either or both.
Content edit
In every interview, some questions just are duds; people ramble or overspeak each other; someone may go take a break for a drink; some questions that are asked later in the interview may work better in an earlier context; and of course there are lots of ums, ahs, stumbling, repetition, and other verbal tics.
The content edit removes all of those to make everyone sound as good as possible, keeps only the interesting parts of the interview, and may reorganize bits for better flow.
Some verbal mannerisms are left in, when either it would be hard to remove them or they are part of the person's characteristic speech. It requires independent judgement to decide which 'um' would sound better removed and which would be better to leave in.
Final edit
Interviews are generally recorded using a combination of VOIP and POTS, with many variables such as mic quality, compression artifacts, clicks, pops, noise on the non-speaking channel, etc.
The final (or "quality") edit corrects for these sources of noise and distortion with a combination of filtering and manual correction.
The final edit also splices in the show's intro and outro voiceover and music, and balances the audio so that it is soft panned across channels (so e.g. the interviewer's voice is 80% in the left ear, 20% in the right) for a more natural sound.
If you can do either or both of these jobs, please contact us at , with your relevant experience and desired price per episode.
Thanks!