Welcome to my first formal CyberARTS blog entry. Wanna be let in on a secret?....If you're reading this, you are a part of history as you are reading my very first CyberARTS tutorial entry. Today, I will show you how to do basic editing in Audacity with the tools I commonly use. Just know, that I just recently got this program installed on my computer so I dont know how to use some tools. I'm filling you in on what I know.
First, take a look at the tools you have at your disposal. On your top left side you have your pause button,play button,stop button, skip to start,skip to end and record button. On the centre left side you have your tool bar which has your selection tool,envelope tool, your draw tool, zoom tool,time shift tool and multi-tool mode. On your bottom right you have your edit toolbar which has your undo and re-do buttons, your zoom in,zoom out,fit selection and fit project buttons. On you centre right side you have your cut,copy,paste,trim and silence buttons. For this tutorial in question, you will be using your selection tool and cut tool. Any other tools in use will be named later on.
First you import whatever audio file you're looking to edit.In this case I chose Zetsubou Billy by Maximum The Hormone. To import you could either drag in the file to the grey space underneth the tools or you can import the file by going into File>Import>Audio. After waiting a couple of seconds your file should import. Depending on what you're doing with this audio you're going to make a few snips from the audio.Use the selection tool and drag it across the area you want to cut out. You can press the play button to make sure you highlighted to correct section you want out. After that, press the cut button to remove the highlighted footage. On the flip side of that, you while the part of the file is highlighted and cut you can paste the cut out file ant the playhead.From there make nessesary cuts to make your audio track sound good and polished.
The opposite effect of the cut tool is the trim tool.
With the Trim Tool, Instead of the highlighted part being cut out, the trim tool cuts out everything else around the selected segment.
After you're done with editing your audio file, go into File>Export. The export file window should appear. Select where you would like to export your file to, come up with a name for it then press save. It will then take you to the edit metadata what gives you the option of including information like artist name,track title,album cover etc. The one thing out of your choices that are not optional is the encoded by section. Now unless you have Lame or some other encoder you can't go any further. If you downloaded Audacity from its site then it will notify you that you need Lame to encode MP3s. If you do have an encoder,congrats!!! It should take a few seconds to encode and export. You should be done :D.
Now for the something extra. Here is a fight from Super Mario Bros Z. If you don't know what it is, think Super Mario World meets Sonic the Hedgehog meets Dragon Ball Z. It was all created with Adobe Flash by Alvinartwork. The fights are pretty actiony and dynamic and I think you'll like it :D. Another thing I would like to share is a Naruto amv. It's well time and it's just all around pretty. The last thing is the X-Men: First Class trailer. Whether you're in favour of it or not here it is. Enjoy and see you guys next week.
