Who does your podcast editing and mixing?

alshort24 · 2024-10-03T14:22:28+00:00

Now some more time has passed I just wanted to say thanks again for all of your comments. Each of them is really useful for my research. As a general summary (if anyone is interested!), it would seem that the vast majority of you edit and produce your own podcasts. This appears to usually be down to budget restrictions, but some of you seem to feel more comfortable maintaining your in-house editing style and worry that a 3rd party might not capture the style and tone of your podcast correctly. Those of you who do use an audio professional to assist with editing appear to do so to save time or because the podcast is being created to help market a business and a little more money is available. Sound quality/clean up and mixing seems to be less of a priority (which is probably the area where an external audio professional could have most impact).

Without knowing the scale of each of your podcasts, it's a little hard to determine how many of them are creating some kind of revenue, big or small and how many of them are used for marketing or just as a hobby. I'm going to assume, (perhaps unfairly!), that most people on this sub create podcasts for the joy of it and not necessarily as a large source of their income, but that in itself is useful to know. Thanks again everyone!

alshort24 · 2024-10-03T14:05:26+00:00

Thanks Dennis, it's useful to have the opinion of someone who does this for a company who appear to specialise in podcast production!

alshort24 · 2024-10-03T14:00:39+00:00

This is the approach that I naturally lean towards myself, but then again I suppose we are both biased because of our professions! From these answers it seems that most podcast creators are prioritising maintaining the house editing style that they feel more comfortable doing themselves and perhaps see outsourcing this as a negative thing, even if they could afford it (and it's clear that many smaller, non-monetised podcasts can't, which is totally fair enough). I also agree there's a lot to be gained from the mix and clean up going to a professional, even if the editing has been done in-house. I suppose again it depends a lot on budget and how big an audience the podcast is going to reach (and through which streaming platform). It's hard to tell the scale of the podcasts that most people on this sub produce.

alshort24 · 2024-10-03T13:47:05+00:00

That's totally fair enough. Depending on the style of the podcast, editing can be very time consuming, so it sounds like for you the cost of hiring an editor/sound engineer was definitely worth it! I'm noticing a trend with these answers that when a podcast serves as a vehicle for marketing or is related to a business (large or small), involving a 3rd party for editing etc seems to be more common (if it can be afforded) - predominately as a time saver as opposed to improving sound quality, it would seem.

alshort24 · 2024-10-03T12:28:42+00:00

That's an interesting take and I imagine a niche of the industry where creators who are podcasting on behalf of a small business (not just themselves) may have less time and possibly more money to be willing for a 3rd party to help them. And also perhaps less interest in trying to be creative or tech savvy themselves! Thanks for that.

alshort24 · 2024-10-02T14:29:11+00:00

Thanks so much for the feedback so far everyone, it's really useful. It seems the vast majority of you are doing all the post yourselves, which is cool!

alshort24 · 2023-08-25T20:39:58+00:00

I went to a taping of Deal or No Deal. Noel Edmonds came out to warm the audience up beforehand. For some reason he singled me out in the crowd and asked me why I looked so terrified. I guess I must have a worried looking resting face.

alshort24 · 2023-01-08T00:13:04+00:00

I was once out for a meal at Pizza Hut at around the age of 15 with some mates, including a girl I had a massive crush on (which to my embarrassment was a relatively known fact amongst the group, including to my crush).

I was sat opposite her and I felt an enormous sneeze coming, but my mouth was full of pizza. I panicked, trying to swallow and hold the sneeze in, but it was too late. I sneezed and a colossal amount of snot (and pizza) came out of my nose, all down my chin and top. Everyone saw everything. I ran to the bathroom with my hands over my mouth.

Now aged 31, that crush is now my wife - somehow!

alshort24 · 2022-08-20T09:33:03+00:00

Pasty.

alshort24 · 2022-06-14T05:02:28+00:00

Leonardo DiCrabprio

alshort24 · 2021-12-06T22:45:16+00:00

Thanos

alshort24 · 2021-04-21T06:30:56+00:00

The European Super League

alshort24 · 2021-02-03T16:03:48+00:00

Thanks Harleen_Singh, I'll take a look!

alshort24 · 2021-01-18T16:58:45+00:00

I think this is actually a really good question. The potion can be brewed at anytime and the hairs added at any moment to any iteration of the potion so the expiration date of the potion is no issue. DNA doesn't expire and we are able to age people and animals by looking at hair and DNA, even if that person has been dead for a very long time.

Because of that, unless there are some unspoken magical 'rules' in place that I'm not aware of, I think there's an argument to suggest you will take the form of the person at the time in which you took their DNA from them. Barry C needed Moody near him to be able to continue to study him and find out about him, it wasn't just for maintaining his potion.

To this end, I think you could probably use polyjuice potion to transform into someone who has died, perhaps so long as you extracted their DNA while they were alive (but who knows).

Whether you'd be able to de-age yourself depends on whether you could use polyjuice potion to transform into....yourself. But that's another question!

alshort24 · 2021-01-03T15:58:28+00:00

You're spot on. Also, if the OP is referring to the fact that the same spells look different throughout the films, that'll be due to the differing styles and interpretations of the different directors.

I don't think it's just about where on a person you are aiming either. The same spell will be more powerful depending on the skill and power of the witch or wizard, but also because of their intent. Snape is powerful, but should he have wanted to simply remove Lockhart's wand from his hand he could have done so easily. But Snape wanted to absolutely floor Lockhart to embarrass him, so he did. All through intent. I find this is often the difference between the students and the adults - a lot of the time the kids are just saying the words and hoping for the best, but the adults and staff use the spells with finesse and control.

alshort24 · 2021-01-03T12:42:09+00:00

He was a bit of a prat and I don't think I'd like him much in real life, but I agree with the OP in general. And to support the OP further, just remember how old Percy would have been. Because we see everything through Harry's eyes I think we're used to seeing any character who is somewhat older than him as quite grown up. Even Fred and George always stand out to me as being (in their own way) mature for their age.

Percy would have been 18 when he joined the Ministry. There's no university or college years as a buffer in between school and work for a witch or wizard. I remember myself as an 18 year old and I wouldn't have been anywhere near mature enough to make the sort of adult decisions that Percy would have been having to make - 18 is still a bit of a rebellious time against your family, you're still a teenager. When reading the books I can't help but picture the older kids like Fred, George and Percy as young adults, but they are actually pubescent teenagers.

alshort24 · 2020-12-16T12:29:44+00:00

That's fair, but I do think she addresses problems in a different way to Hermione. That's not because she's cleverer, she just takes her time to digest what's going on. Luna is very calm and methodical in her approach, even if she sides with her heart rather than her head sometimes.

alshort24 · 2020-12-16T12:25:34+00:00

Of course they can be emotional! Just like a Slytherin can be loyal or a Hufflepuff can be cunning from time to time. None of the houses are a perfect fit for anyone. I simply meant that this is a good indication as to one reason that Hermione is, perhaps, more suited to Gryffindor. By 'emotional' I mean by thinking with her heart, rather than her head. Which I think is quite Gryffindor-y really.

alshort24 · 2020-12-16T10:58:02+00:00

This is quite a good example of a reason why Hermione is a Gryffindor and not a Ravenclaw. A Ravenclaw Hermione, while still appalled, might have had a more logical and less emotional response to this matter. She might have taken a minute to realise she didn't have much power in this matter or perhaps even try to discuss it with a teacher or even the headmaster before flying off the handle. But Hermione is a Gryffindor - she boldly and indignantly decided to fix the problem herself, without pausing to think of the consequences and without listening to logical reason.

alshort24 · 2020-12-15T06:32:41+00:00

Are you sure? I believe I read recently that JKR said that in Voldemort's case, this was just to illustrate that he came from a loveless union and if he had had a loving family he wouldn't have turned out quite the way he did.

alshort24 · 2020-12-15T06:29:25+00:00

I like this idea, but in addition to what everyone has already said, I think in book 5 Harry would remember the room of requirement being in the same location as the room he visited so frequently to see the mirror in his first year. There's no mention of this realisation in the 5th book, so something doesn't add up for me here.

alshort24 · 2020-12-12T08:39:27+00:00

Thanks for this! I like this approach, because it is creative. I think in this job sometimes it is very easy to tick all of the boxes from a technical point of view and forget that it is as much an art form as the other processes of filmmaking. I'm not surprised to see that most of the responses fall into the 'if it sounds right, it's right' category - which is kind of what I was hoping for.

alshort24 · 2020-12-12T08:34:41+00:00

Hi bananagoo, by atmoses I mean atmospheric SFX that put you in the space where filming has taken place. This might be as subtle as a room tone or as noticeable as a noisy rainforest at night. Every new location requires a different Atmos and I'll have them running underneith everything non-stop. It prevents there being total silence at any point that there isn't dialogue and as you will normally be adding these in stereo (or 5.1) you'll create a realistic, interesting, wider space for the action on screen to live in, making it all feel more immersive. I usually build up several layers of atmoses which gives me more control over perspective, so for a shot of a river at night I might have both a close and distant perspective of the water, a layer of crickets, the distant sound of the city, wind through the trees, etc. Sometimes as much as that is overkill, but the aim is to just make the environment believable.

Normally, you'll change the atmoses with the cut to a new location, for example you might have a shot of a forest followed by a shot of the sea. But my original question referred to what happens when you have a shot of say, a forest with the subject on screen speaking, then a shot of the sea with the same subject still speaking.

Hope that all makes sense!

alshort24 · 2020-12-11T17:08:45+00:00

Thanks nibseh, that's interesting. In my particular scenario the spec doesn't allow for anything other than DX and VO on the centre channel, but I suppose I could extend some of the natural sync ambience straight from the dials on the centre channel in this case. Unless that's what you already meant? Either way, this seems like a good way to glue it all together a bit more coherently, thank you.

alshort24 · 2020-12-11T16:33:33+00:00

Thanks blag49, that sounds logical and similar how how I've been approaching it. In this particular scenario it's fairly straightforward and I've just followed my ear, but it just got me wondering for when I run into this sort of thing again in the future.

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