Editing for beginners: Remove Ahh and Umm with free software

1. Intro audio: When I make a class on Skillshare, it takes me forever to do the audio. It takes me so much longer than I would like it to be. I don't own fancy audio software and I'm not that good at editing. But I did have a lot of audio files and my goal was to get rid of all my horrible, um, uh, you know, and like, it's, you know, um, when we, like it's like. I wanted to get rid of it. You cannot do much with the audio in iMovie. I spent many hours figuring out how I can clean up my audio files with free software and export them in a way that I can use them in iMovie. This is a short class where I teach you how to do all those things. This class is for complete beginners, people like me who just love to teach classes, or put audio over something and don't have that many skills on how to edit and mixing. Also, I don't really like to do it. Something that's easy to do and fast. 2. How To: This is a software that I normally use. I use iMovie to edit my classes. I'm not super good at editing. It comes free with my Mac so I use it and it's simple enough for me to understand. I also don't want to pay for expensive programs that has so many functions that I don't really use. So iMovie is great for me. But for the audio, you cannot do much for it. I'm now going to let you listen to the unedited version of the audio. It is lots of mmhs and like and uhm and pauses. You will get a sense of how it is before editing and then after I'm going to show you the editing part. Thank you so much for listening to this class and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you learned something. If you wanted to, you can leave a review. Positive, negative, feedback is always welcome. Thank you. That was the audio that we're going to work with. I'm going to show you the website and we're going to clean this up. The website we're going to use is Audacity. You can go to audacityteam.org and download it. It's an open-source platform, so it's free. Here we have it. You can get it for the Mac and Windows. I already downloaded it. Just use the Audacity DMG file. After you download that, we're first going to open QuickTime, because QuickTime makes it possible to separate the audio from the movie. In iMovie, I didn't find a way to extract the audio and save it as a separate file. I'm going to do that with QuickTime Player. I'm going to go to File, Export As Audio Only. Thank you. It's going to be m4a, Save. I already downloaded that, so for me I already have it. You save it there and then it's saved. This is the program that we're going to use Audacity. You're going to import the audio that we just created from the QuickTime file. You see we're going search, here it is, Open. I don't know what this means. I don't know. All I know is it works and that's fine with me for the rest. I don't know whether this works. I just click "Okay", and that's it. Here you have it. Thank you so much for listening to this class and I hope you enjoyed it. Yeah, so we can stretch it all the way out. I'm going to have this first part I just want to have gone because there's just no need for anyone to hear that. Stretch it out, and delete it. Thank you. Select. Thank you so much for, so much. It can't be gone. For listening to this class, and I hope you enjoyed it. Just pick and choose. You so much for listening to this class and I hope you enjoyed it. You can stretch it out all the way. So much for listening. Select it. Class. You can also choose to not deleted but to mute it. There, that button. Class, I hope you enjoyed it and I hope. Thank you so much for listening to this class. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you learned something. If you wanted to, you can leave a review. If you want. We can also delete that. I'm just going to click it away. If you want to, you can leave review positive, negative feedback is always welcome. Not every um is bad. Thank you so much for listening to this class, and I hope you enjoyed it. Too much and. Thank you so much for listening to this class. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you learned something. If you wanted, you can leave a review. I hope you learned something. If you wanted, you can leave a review. Positive, negative feedback is always welcome. Thank you. It sounds better. Thank you so much for listening to this class. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you learned something. If you want to, you can leave a review. Positive, negative feedback is always welcome. Thank you. Okay, so I'm happy with that. I'm happy. Thank you. I'm going to show you how to merge this file with the iMovie file. To export your file, you're going to File. You're going to Export Audio and for a Mac, you then use the top one. If I click on it you see a lot of different ones, but we're going to use the top one and you're going to hit "Save". I already did it and you're done. Now, I exported our audio and it just works. It works with iMovie and we can just put it in here. You can extract here. You still have the old one you can detach audio. Delete this one and you can use new one and there you have it. 3. Thank you : Thank you so much for watching this class. If you have any questions, then you can put it up in the Discussion board, and if you want, you can leave a review. That would help me a lot. Thank you.