Picking up where we left off, you have your podcast recorded and your editing notes at hand. Where do you begin? Naturally, you will want to edit that inevitable little bit of silence at the start of the recording but this will lead to a problem that will get progressively worse. If you remove just a second from the beginning of the show you’ll shift all of your editing times by one second. That’s not too bad, you’ll find the edits still, but after a few edits suddenly you’ll be hunting as the times will be a vague reference rather than a specific point in time. When it comes to audio editing the best practice is to begin at the end, it won’t matter how much you remove because all the subsequent edits will still be at the correct time you recorded on your edit sheet.
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