Jerod

And very cool use of... I mean, and it's gotten better, continues to get better. We've been on it for at least a couple of years now. Very few incidents. So we're happy with the software. We own a separate account for each of our podcasts and everybody logs into their own account. They record in there and that handles the majority of everything.

And very cool use of... I mean, and it's gotten better, continues to get better. We've been on it for at least a couple of years now. Very few incidents. So we're happy with the software. We own a separate account for each of our podcasts and everybody logs into their own account. They record in there and that handles the majority of everything.

the actual video and audio recording and syncing, and then we export out of there into Adobe Audition for editing. We have a kind of a three-step process in our editing. One's called prepped. So we prep the audio. This has to do with making sure all the tracks line up, all the boring stuff that people don't ever think about.

the actual video and audio recording and syncing, and then we export out of there into Adobe Audition for editing. We have a kind of a three-step process in our editing. One's called prepped. So we prep the audio. This has to do with making sure all the tracks line up, all the boring stuff that people don't ever think about.

Sometimes prepping the sounds, trying to get a different version in case the audio of a specific track isn't great. And then we edit it, content edit. This is usually our editors. Shout out to Jason and Brian who content edit our shows. And their job is to basically cut out all the bad parts, which is just awkwardness, weird pauses, et cetera. They do their work, ums and ahs.

Sometimes prepping the sounds, trying to get a different version in case the audio of a specific track isn't great. And then we edit it, content edit. This is usually our editors. Shout out to Jason and Brian who content edit our shows. And their job is to basically cut out all the bad parts, which is just awkwardness, weird pauses, et cetera. They do their work, ums and ahs.

At that point, they leave markers. So Alex asked about timestamps and chapters and all that stuff. We don't do any timestamping or markering while we record. Seems like the ideal time to do it, but actually when you're in the moment, in the groove, you're not actually thinking about, oh, this is a great, except for earlier when I said, here's a chapter.

At that point, they leave markers. So Alex asked about timestamps and chapters and all that stuff. We don't do any timestamping or markering while we record. Seems like the ideal time to do it, but actually when you're in the moment, in the groove, you're not actually thinking about, oh, this is a great, except for earlier when I said, here's a chapter.

Every once in a while I'll think about it, but you just want to be able to just be free from all that and just enjoy the conversation. We aren't doing anything. I think Riverside has, oh yeah, they have a mark clip button right there that we could use to set a marker. But we don't do that.

Every once in a while I'll think about it, but you just want to be able to just be free from all that and just enjoy the conversation. We aren't doing anything. I think Riverside has, oh yeah, they have a mark clip button right there that we could use to set a marker. But we don't do that.

Sometimes there are things that we know about, and so we'll just tell our editors afterwards, like, hey, look out for this. You can drop a marker here, a marker there in our locals as we go. And I've done less of that than I used to. I used to do it more. But Jason and Brian take good care of us, so they handle the edit, then they pass it back to us for mastering, which is all the final stuff.

Sometimes there are things that we know about, and so we'll just tell our editors afterwards, like, hey, look out for this. You can drop a marker here, a marker there in our locals as we go. And I've done less of that than I used to. I used to do it more. But Jason and Brian take good care of us, so they handle the edit, then they pass it back to us for mastering, which is all the final stuff.

Chapters, ads, voiceovers, music, final edit decisions if there's any content editing to do. All of this is in just big old Dropbox folder, basically. That's organized. by show and by episode, and separate Adobe Audition sessions for each phase. So very much a manual version control system that works just fine just by copying files and renaming them.

Chapters, ads, voiceovers, music, final edit decisions if there's any content editing to do. All of this is in just big old Dropbox folder, basically. That's organized. by show and by episode, and separate Adobe Audition sessions for each phase. So very much a manual version control system that works just fine just by copying files and renaming them.

And then we mix down a WAV file and an MP3 file and we upload them to our website. Hit publish, baby. Now that's both detailed and glossing a bunch of stuff, right?

And then we mix down a WAV file and an MP3 file and we upload them to our website. Hit publish, baby. Now that's both detailed and glossing a bunch of stuff, right?

Yes. Yeah, the cool thing about the way that Adobe Audition works is that you have a file type called .sesx. And those files point to a local file set, essentially. It's like a timeline. I imagine it's probably, I've never actually read the file type. I thought it was proprietary. It's like an XML file, I think. It's very XML-like, yeah. Yeah.

Yes. Yeah, the cool thing about the way that Adobe Audition works is that you have a file type called .sesx. And those files point to a local file set, essentially. It's like a timeline. I imagine it's probably, I've never actually read the file type. I thought it was proprietary. It's like an XML file, I think. It's very XML-like, yeah. Yeah.

And so when you make these copies of it, the file is like a couple megs at most. So like, for example, Jared mentioned the prepped version of this. We have a show coming up today on these ergonomic, really awesome keyboards from ZSA. And the prepped file is 130 kilobytes. The edited version is 2.2 megabytes.

And so when you make these copies of it, the file is like a couple megs at most. So like, for example, Jared mentioned the prepped version of this. We have a show coming up today on these ergonomic, really awesome keyboards from ZSA. And the prepped file is 130 kilobytes. The edited version is 2.2 megabytes.