Speaker 1: Today I'm going to compare the main recording and editing software for podcasts so that you can choose the one that's right for you. Let's go. Number one Audacity. Audacity has been around for decades and it's a free software. It's widely used and it just had a massive upgrade with version 3.2. With this upgrade Audacity is no longer a destructive editor which means that the changes you make in your project are not permanent. You can modify and tweak them at any time. We also have a new chain of effect. You can use third-party plugins and they are applied in real time. So as you modify the parameters and the settings you can hear the changes happening and you can also place one after the other and the interface of the chain of effects is very user-friendly and easy to understand. The waveform is very detailed as you zoom in and it's in classical form what you would expect. The interface overall is quite outdated but it's something we can work with. Some of the features inside of the menu are not strictly related to podcasts or audio editing. When you download Audacity you also get some links to some free third-party plugins that you can integrate into the software right away. Number two Hindenburg. Now Hindenburg is a software that is specifically designed for human dialogue. So we don't have things about music production or video it's strictly audio only. This leads to a menu that is very clean and minimal which helps the learning curve. You also have included some native plugins that are very easy to operate because they usually work with one knobs or they're very simplified and it helps you to get the results you want without having to fight with it too much. How many plugins you have it depends if you choose the version light of the software or the pro version of the software. Everything considered the software is still quite niche and it's not as widely used though I know professional editors that they use it. There are some online communities you can still find tutorials. One of the things I don't like about it is that they chose a type of waveform that is quite unconventional and if you're used to other editing software it takes a little bit to get used to it. What I like about it is that it has a flexible pricing model so you don't have to necessarily get a subscription you can also purchase the software outright and the light version of the software is overall affordable. Be careful though that in the light version of the software you do not have multi-track recordings so if you want to record each speaker on a separate track you won't be able to do that which is kind of unacceptable. Number three Reaper. I know a lot of people like Reaper it's kind of a jack of all trades because you can edit video with it, you can edit podcasts and audio, you can do some music production stuff and it's overall quite affordable. The discounted license is just $60. Because Reaper tries to do a little bit of everything the menus end up being quite cluttered because they have to include a lot of functions so the learning curve here it's quite steep. I'm not a fan of the interface and how the effects chain is represented but I really like that you can assign several actions one after the other to a shortcut so you would basically press a button and three four actions of your choosing will happen at the same time which is very time-saving when you have to edit an episode and go through repetitive actions. Number four Adobe Audition. One of the main critique here is the price because it's a subscription model and it's $20.99 a month in the US just for Adobe Audition. You can also find it as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud which is also why it's so widely used. The software is solely focused on audio editing and it feels very complete with a lot of advanced features which is also why it's used by voiceover artists, professionals, podcast editors and podcasters. It comes with a lot of great native plugins. If you're familiar with Adobe products it's very intuitive and they also integrate seamlessly together. If you and your team are using it and you want to look for an editor that's using it too your hiring pool is going to be much much bigger. Number five Pro Tools. Pro Tools is the industry standard audio editing software. It's used in corporate environments, in big studios and in big projects. Because there are a lot of teams and departments working in this project a standard was created and that standard was Pro Tools. For an independent podcaster it's still quite expensive. On top of that complexity is quite high because it is a complete software that is meant to be used by professionals so there are a lot of features that are useful in movies or sound design or music production which can make the whole software quite complex for just an independent podcaster. It also comes with a lot of native plugins and it's compatible with a lot of hardware developed by Avid which is the same company that produces the software. Number six Descript. Descript is a subscription based model software and the median price is $12 a month per user. This also can add up but is more reasonable than Adobe Audition or Pro Tools. The way the software works is quite innovative because you take your audio, you import it into the software, it creates a transcript from it and you can edit the transcript and also if you cut some words in a transcript those words will be removed from your audio too. This made the software very appealing to beginners and really focused on making it as user-friendly as possible. Because the target audience is mainly beginners the software lacks a lot of advanced features like for example running third-party plugins to improve the audio. You get something like the studio sound and other little features inside which do it in a very very basic and limited way. Descript can also edit video and it's very good for creating TikToks and shorts in a very easy fashion though it lacks the more advanced feature as Premiere and Resolve so the results will be again more basic, more simple. You are not able to do a lot of things. I really like that you can integrate an external podcast editor into Descript that's because the whole workflow is happening in the cloud and the files are on the cloud so you don't have to send files back and forth when you're collaborating with someone. They have access to the same cloud as you do, they do the changes and the whole cooperation is seamless. If you're editing needs change and you want to start to do something a bit more complex a bit more advanced you might have to be forced to move to another software and those software work very differently from Descript so you would have to basically start all over from zero and feeling like you wasted a lot of time. So what you learn in Descript it's not a really transferable skill when it comes to editing while the other software though they have some differences are much more similar to each other. If you enjoyed the video subscribe, like and stay tuned for more. I'll see you next time.