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I can see each one hour interview taking a day to edit and that is (a) dead boring and (b) not a good way to earn a crust. You can speed-up Audacity playback a bit, and there are "transcription" applications that allow you to speed-up playback without increasing pitch. (Audacity can do th...

"You double posted." Is this aimed at me? I marked my question OT as it is not a question about Audacity. It is a question aimed at people, probably journalists, who have recorded conversations and want to trim them down to useable soundbites. I realise it will be a splendid coincidence if...

... 2.1.2. Before you get all jump-up-and-downie, that doesn't put the sound back together. That just makes the damage a little less harsh. It can help a lot if you have one, single clip wave in ten minutes of show. Koz

... died. I turned my computer back on and audacity automatically recovered my files. But then it gave me an error message telling me to go to help > show log because the waveforms are not there. Does the log say the files are missing? If so they have almost certainly gone, because the Mac ...

Let us know how the interview goes. In both threads.

Koz

... with us for a while. It's difficult to guess someone's mood in a text only conversation, but the vast majority on this forum genuinely want to help their fellow Audacity users, and usually succeed ;) If the problem is resolved, then it may help others in the future if you could briefly describe ...

You double posted.

Note how confusing that makes the thread.

Koz

... The transom.org people have terrific training videos and instructions how do to this podcasting thing. They may have some ideas. I need help in cutting long interviews — or — I need to know how to cut sound for theatrical presentation. I'm pretty sure there's still no shortcut. Koz

Good point. I'm using a Tascam DR-05. It can take 'marks' but I have been placing the device half way between myself and the sitter. So it is not easy to use the 'mark' key. What I thought I could do is to set the stopwatch on my phone and make notes of the timings of the interesting bits alongside ...

I am not a journalist, but how are you recording the interviews? It seems to me you should place some markers while you are recording to flag the vital pieces. Many portable recorders will do that, although Audacity cannot read the markers they save in the file.


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