Free Audio Editing Software: Focus on Audacity

At some point during the edit, your movie will require some Audio Editing Techniques to fix distortion or to cut away any unwanted audio snippets.

Do this for free using Audacity, one of the best pieces of Freeware Audio Editing Software available.

How do I get Audacity and can I run it on a Mac?
The simple answer to these question are easily, and yes.

To get Audacity, simply visit the link at the bottom of this post, choose your operating system and click the download link.

Audacity is not a huge file, so should fully download in a couple of minutes if you have a broadband connection.

Simply follow the installation instructions and away you go.

I have installed Audacity, but what formats can I import?
Audacity is pretty flexible in terms of the wide range of formats that users can import, with the following currently supported:

• Ogg Vorbis
• MP3
• WAV
• AIFF

This ensures wide compatibility with your Video Editing Software for example, enabling you to seamlessly integrate Audacity into your projects.

What can I do with Audacity?
This question has an endless number of answers, but for most Video Editors, Audio Editing Software is used to record voice overs, to edit out unwanted sounds and to fix any areas of the audio which may not appear right to the ear.

You can also use Audacity to digitise tape cassettes, enabling you to use analogue audio in your projects.  You can also improve the playback quality of this audio.

Cutting, copying and mixing sounds together is also really easy, and Audacity provides an unlimited number of audio tracks to help you accomplish your goal.  This basically means in you want to remix music, you can do.  It also means if you want to cut down a tracks length to fit into an on screen sequence, you can do easily.

Adding audio effects and changing the speed and pitch is also straight forward via the graphic user interface, so managing some advanced editing techniques can be achieved at the push of a button.

Overall
If you’re a keen Video Editor, or you are simply looking to shorten a music track for another purpose, look no further than Audacity.

Packed with advanced features, you can be sure to get some great audio effects and tools to improve the audio of your video.

The seamless integration with Video Editing Software makes it a great bonus, due to the fact that Audacity deals with the most common Audio Formats.

A great piece of software, and best of all, its free, so what have you got to lose?

Download link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/