KALX Live Editing Guide
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[edit] Overview
Editing a show requires editing two versions of the show. The Air Recording version is very simple as only the beginning and end of the show must chopped... miscellaneous things like PSAs, Ride Finder, and archive material may be removed to make a more concise recording or make it fit on an 80min CD. The Studio version is edited down to create music only, thus, chopping out all the witty banter between songs... unless you want to get fancy and leave in the names of songs (*music*-"our next song is called XYZ"-*music*) or references to KALX (*music*-"we're SOnSO on KALX"-*music*). All else gets cut.
I generally use the "Shuffle" mode, not "Slip" (located in upper left, it dictates how audio pieces move when things are deleted). "Shuffle" mode will bring a later audio piece in contact with an earlier piece, if something in the middle was deleted. (ie: 123->13 vs 123->1 3)
To make things easy, it's nice to know 4 Keyboard shortcuts: OpenApple-Z <-- undo OpenApple-E <-- Cuts the audio track at the selected point OpenApple-F <-- Fades selected regions OpenApple-A <-- Select All
[edit] Editing Air Recording
(usually 2nd Audio Track that includes the interview, mute the first track):
- Listen to the beginning part of the track and find a good starting point. Usually this is right before the DJ introduces the band.
- Click the Track where you want to cut it.
- Cut by OpenApple-E
- Double click undesired portion and press Delete
- Find the end of the interview.
- Cut where desired
- Double click undesired portion and press Delete
- at this point you are generally done, unless you want to remove PSAs, Ride Finder, time filling music, or jibber-jabber to get a more concise recording or for 80min time constraint reasons**
- Double click a portion of the file to highlight it.
- Select the entire track by pressing OpenApple-A
- Go to Edit->Consolidate Selection
- Select the hand tool and double click track.
- Rename it "SOnSO 7-24-07air"
- Make sure you have selected your newly named and consolidated audio file. Click on the top of the audio bin on the right hand side of the screen. In the sub-menu choose "Export selected as files".
- This will bring you to a dialog box. Choose the following parameters:
- File Format: AIFF
- Bit Depth: 16
- Sampling rate: 44.1 khz
- Stereo Interleaved
- Next you need to choose where to put the file. In the above dialog box there will be a default path laid out. The default automatically chooses the "Audio Files" folder in the pro-tools session you are working with. We want the files in a different folder. Click on the "Choose" button and choose the "Burn Me" folder located on "Audio 1"... "KALX Live"... "Burn Me"
- Once pro-tools is finished exporting that file you can save and quit the session.
- Find the file in the "Burn Me" folder and simply drag it to the "Toast" icon on the desktop or in the dock at the bottom of the screen.
- Make sure that toast is burning an "Audio CD" and not a "Data CD". From there just put in a CDR and click the burn button. You can choose any speed between 8x and 16x. Check the finished CD to make sure it works.
- Next label the CD appropriately.
[edit] Adding Burned Air Recordings to the Super Archive spindle
- Put the "Air Recording" CD you've just made on the on the "Super Archive" spindle in the KALX Live cabinet.
[edit] Editing Studio Recording
(usually the first track and without the interview, mute the second track):
- Listen to the beginning part of the track and find a good starting point. Usually just before the first song starts.
- Click the Track where you want to cut it.
- Cut by OpenApple-E
- Double click undesired portion and press Delete
- Find the end of the first song, if there is talking between songs or long pauses, click where the song ends and the sound has trailed off.
- Press OpenApple-E to cut the track
- Determine what the talking consists of.
- Find the beginning of the next track, click where it begins and cut the track.
- Delete undesired portion.
- If you are in "Shuffle" mode, the two audio files will come together. Now you can fade the two tracks together if it sounds awkward. See end of instructions**
- Repeat steps 5-9 until you run out of more songs.
- Double click a portion of the file to highlight it.
- Select the entire track by pressing OpenApple-A
- Go to Edit->Consolidate Selection
- Select the hand tool and double click track.
- Rename it "SOnSO 7-24-07edit"
- Make sure you have selected your newly named audio file. Click on the top of the audio bin on the right hand side of the screen. In the sub-menu choose "Export selected as files".
- This will bring you to a dialog box. Choose the following parameters:
- File Format: AIFF
- Bit Depth: 16
- Sampling rate: 44.1 khz
- Stereo Interleaved
- Next you need to choose where to put the file. In the above dialog box there will be a default path laid out. The default automatically chooses the "Audio Files" folder in the pro-tools session you are working with. We want the files in a different folder. Click on the "Choose" button and choose the "Burn Me" folder located on "Audio 1"... "KALX Live"... "Burn Me"
- Once pro-tools is finished exporting that file you can save and quit the session.
- Find the file in the "Burn Me" folder and simply drag it to the "Toast" icon on the desktop or in the dock at the bottom of the screen.
- Make sure that toast is burning an "Audio CD" and not a "Data CD". From there just put in a CDR and click the burn button. You can choose any speed between 8x and 16x. Check the finished CD to make sure it works.
- Next label the CD appropriately.
- Delete the original KALX live pro-tools session. Also delete the stereo audio file you put in the "Burn Me" folder. Otherwise someone else will come in and look at that folder and waste their time doing the work you already did. Let's try to avoid people wasting time and disc space.
At this point you can either deposit the burned and labled Studio Recording CD onto the spindle of CDs in the cabinet waiting to be added to the database, or you can add your new CD to the database, create a label and insert it directly into the KALX Live CD booklets. If you do the complete process, that recording will be immediately available for KALX Live hosts to play on KALX Live. Otherwise you'll have to wait until someone else comes in and processes the CDs on the spindle which are waiting to be added to the database and put in the CD Booklets.
[edit] Adding Burned Studio Recordings to the Database and CD Booklets
- Take your labeled Studio Recording CD into the computer lab next to the News Studio
- Open a browser (Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc)
- Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kalxlive/
- You'll need to sign in with your Yahoo ID
- Go to the KALX Live CD Recording List : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kalxlive/database?method=reportRows&tbl=3
- Click Add Record
- Fill in the fields. Here are examples :
- Artist : Green Day
- Location : KALX Live Studios
- Date : 03/22/08
- This is the date of the recording
- Length : 34:08
- This is the duration of the recording which you've written on the Studio Recording CD.
- Super Archive : Yes
- This is to indicate that you've created a Super Archive CD of the Air Recording.
- Click "Add Record"
- Sign out of Yahoo
- Create a small piece of paper that you'll put in the CD Booklet sleeve behind the CD. It should contain the following information :
- Artist
- Location
- Date
- Length
- The phrase "Last Played"
- This is a section where DJs can write when they play an archive. This is to prevent DJs from playing the same archives on KALX Live week after week.
- Go to the KALX Live cabinet containing the CD Booklets
- Find the Booklet that contains the part of the alphabet for the Band name.
- Find an empty CD space and insert the details paper you created and the Studio Recording CD.
