From the course: Learning Audacity
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- [Garrick] At this point, we've seen how to record and import audio files into an Audacity project. But rarely will you record something that you're 100% happy with. You may hear unwanted sounds or maybe you messed up a line of dialogue that you immediately restated and you need to edit out the bad version. If you're working with an imported audio file you might only want to use a portion of it in your project and discard the rest. Whatever the case, in this chapter we're going to go over some basic editing techniques you'll need to become proficient at in order to mold your project into what you want. I'm going to keep working with a version of the podcast project I started in the previous chapter. Now, the most fundamental editing concept to understand is one that you probably already know from working with word processors. Just like when you want to change the font or color of some text in a word processor, you have to…
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