How to Edit Podcasts on iPad with Apple Pencil

[@zollotech]

Thanks for the tutorial. Great overview of how to use it with actual production.

[@beardfm]

Thanks Aaron 🙏🏻

[@IyobIyob-e7u]

Can you do more videos for a beginner how to edit I don’t know how to edit ? 4:06

[@ashpole20]

You’ve got it all wrong: it’s not Ferrite, not the iPad mini, not the pencil. The real answer is you, you’re amazing when you edit a podcast! No way could I do it that good!

[@beardfm]

Very kind bro 🙏🏻

[@everything80spodcast68]

Do you find the Apple Pencil works well with GarageBand on iPad?

[@beardfm]

It does! Pencil works well anywhere, I just have more experience with the Ferrite app

[@DaryleHamel]

Great tutorial- instead of every feature, you covered features people would use 98% of the time 👍🏼

[@beardfm]

Appreciate that!

[@fletcherbrown728]

Thanks. Based on your review I now have Ferrite Pro and just getting used to it. One question: How do you meter your loudness or prepare your final audio file to meet KZbin (or any other) loudness requirements. I have loudness meters but can’t connect plugins to Ferrite. Do you move your exported Ferrite file to another app that you can meter and set gain or do you just sent to something like Auphonic for loudness settings. Thanks. PS: You voice and audio is just superb.

[@beardfm]

Congrats on getting Ferrite, and thank you for the kind words 🙏🏻 there is not an exact db meter in Ferrite that I know of. And while it’s not ideal, I use the visual volume bar in the center (master) and the small bars on each track, to set gain and volume. I aim for yellow and hitting red at the loudest parts, and that typically turns out well. You can listen to the AppleInsider podcast as I set those levels manually. For other shows I edit, like Movies on the Side, I actually trust the auto-leveling feature in ferrite and it works well.

[@anthonycain7578]

Thanks Stephen! After watching for the 100th time I’m starting to catch on. You talk and edit very fast, I feel a little slow by comparison. However, I have learned a thing or two. This will be my first PodCast and I’m taking your advice and going with BuzzSprout Hosting. Can you do a follow up video where you take the Ferrite file and upload it to BuzzSprout, and walk us beginners through the process of BuzzSprout Hosting?

[@beardfm]

Will work on that for the future! But Buzzsprout is very straightforward and have great tutorials on their channel as well. Also, you can click the gear icon and watch KZbin videos at .75 or .5 speed too!

[@anthonycain7578]

A bad thing just happened Stephen. When I try to play a file nothing happens. No sound and the scrubber don’t move. It was working yesterday. I was going to continue editing a piece and none of my files will play. What could have happened?

[@6666SUPERDEVIL]

Stephen! Hi! Wanted to thank you for this video, I’ve got Ferrite Pro, but I want to ask you a special question, hope you could help me please.🙏🏻 I’ve got my audio ready to import, it’s there a way, I can narrow its time? for example, the total time of the track is 35 seconds, but I need to speed it up to leave it at 30 seconds. I really hope you could share me some light with your experience. I’d be very thankful. Thank you for your time Stephen. 🙏🏻

[@beardfm]

Hey there! Unfortunately I'm not sure Ferrite lets you retime tracks, but try Hokusai, another app by the same developer. I believe it has retime controls.

[@6666SUPERDEVIL]

I truly appreciate the time you took to reply! Thanks Stephen! Will give it a look! Best wishes!!!

[@AlexTribblePhoto]

Thank you so much for this! I edit several video podcasts on my ipad and was looking for an app that would allow me to edit the audio from my ipad as well. This was so helpful that I went ahead and bought the app because of you. Thank you!

[@beardfm]

You won’t regret it! Let me know if you have questions, I can include them in a future video!

[@natalieartist1113]

This has been great. I love my iPad Pro (22) for drawing. I never thought about using it as an audio editing tool. Any suggestion on a microphone that pairs well with the iPad? I plan on a solo podcast and record directly into the app. You may need to do an upgrade tutorial. Looks like they made many updates. Not many tutorials out there. Thanks again.

[@beardfm]

Hey Natalie! I highly recommend this mic on entry level, works great directly into iPad and recording with Ferrite: amzn.to/408mH7d and an upgrade/pro pick: amzn.to/41qiwoo And there was a big update to Ferrite a few months ago, it's great! I've been editing at 2X speed now. Will try to do a follow-up soon!

[@natalieartist1113]

@@beardfm thank you so much, after I wrote this. I noticed that you had a Skillshare class. It was very helpful. I order the ATR2100x. I now need to learn this program.

[@jamesvoicepro3345]

Stephen, I just found this and it is amazing. Not only is it relatively new so it has most of the new features, but it is very detailed. I do have a question. When I am recording different tracks, or import, I find that they are almost always at different levels. It is often just different voices, different distances from the mic, etc. I could have sworn that ferrite has a way to edit this the levels are even on all tracks, but I have not figured that out. Is that the compressor you mentioned in other comments?

[@beardfm]

Thanks for watching! When editing a project and viewing all tracks, there’s a “Final Mix” menu. Tap that and turn on auto leveling. That should help! You’ll only hear the difference after exporting a file.

[@Dragonshrimp]

@@beardfm I cfound it, thank you! I swear I have seen that on the bottom and tried before, but this time it worked.

[@TimothyDowd]

The one time fee is for the Version you buy... later versions are a paid upgrade. just so you know.

[@OreApampa]

Bro… this was really helpful. This is the exact process and app I have been looking for! I’m a voiceover artist and like you, I’m looking to make my workflow mobile and be able to edit wherever I am. Thank you!!!

[@beardfm]

🙏🏻🙏🏻 so glad it helped. Let me know if you have questions in the future!

[@IyobIyob-e7u]

Can you do more videos for a beginner how to edit I don’t know how to edit ? 4:06

[@IyobIyob-e7u]

Can you do more videos for a beginner how to edit I don’t know how to edit ?

[@IyobIyob-e7u]

Can you do more videos for a beginner how to edit I don’t know how to edit ?

[@shaneeegan]

Hí Stephen,whereisthe settings for apple pencil in ferrite 3

[@kaicastle.]

Hello, would you recommend Ferrite for KZbin voice overs instead of Garage Band? I found out there's not Noise Reduction in Garage Band, so I'm kinda looking into Ferrite. Thank you..

[@beardfm]

I would 100% use it for that too! Frankly I use it for any spoken word audio.

[@ANTHONY-g5n6n]

Superb tutorial. Focusing on the major features makes this really helpful. Plus, watching you edit gives a real sense of just how fast one could easily become with practice. Thank you for some fantastic work here.

[@beardfm]

Appreciate the kind words, hope this helps!

[@CoriMusic97]

Great video! Can you adjust volume for clips ? Or tracks only ? Also is there a "duplicate item" option?

[@beardfm]

You can open the automation track and adjust volume granularly throughout a track, yes! And there's a copy / paste option so you can duplicate portions of the clip.

[@shaneeegan]

Hi Stephen, low can you select multiple Clips and join them all together?

[@beardfm]

You can!

[@Chspas]

Quick question! I've been trying to find audio recording options with the ipad. Premiere rush has been extremely finnicky and doesn't reliably record audio when I hit the record button for some reason. However, I ran into ferrite as an option. Do you know if there's an effect option for echo/reverb reduction in the pro or free version? I haven't been able to find that information. As a side note to anyone else reading, if you can help me diagnose why premiere rush doesn't record when hitting the record button, that would be great haha.

[@beardfm]

Hey there! I haven’t used Rush for recording. Ferrite does have a background noise removal tool, but haven’t used very much for echo. It would probably help some, but if you have access to Final Cut I highly recommend the Voice Isolation feature there b

[@teacheremilio]

Awesome video Stephen, now I want to give it a try and edit podcast using the iPad 😃🙌

[@beardfm]

Thank you! And go for it!

[@tech4now_]

Great video. Excellent tutorial. I hope they stay a one-time purchase

[@beardfm]

Thank you!

[@dominikhaering]

Very good tutorial. Is there a way to export the individual audio pieces into separate files after strip silence. I am looking for a way to export long audio files, for example an audio file where I recorded every note from a piano, into individual samples. The whole thing for the iPad.

[@beardfm]

Oh wow, I don't think it can do that. You can export just individual clips you select, but it would be a one-by-one process. No "export all clips as separate files" option.

[@beardfm]

Correction! Just tried and you can in fact select all audio clips along a single track and then export all of them as separate files! Looks like Ferrite is perfect for your use case!

[@homevalueswithbrent7381]

I am trying to customize the toolbar. I am trying to choose the insert chapter but it won’t select it. Do you have any suggestions for what I can do to fix this problem. Have run into this problem?

[@beardfm]

Are you going into edit mode where it shows you all the tool options and you can drag/drop them?

[@homevalueswithbrent7381]

@Stephen Robles Thank you for your help! The mistake I made was not holding the icon to start the process of dragging and dropping. I kept tapping it. I also realized I needed to bring it down to that specific area to drop. You were a big help. I appreciate your video as it is helping me and your response.

[@IanThain]

Hey Stephen what about Chapter Artwork?

[@beardfm]

You can do that directly in Ferrite! Just drag an image, doesn't even have to be square, and Ferrite will let you crop it in-app

[@LesProductionsZvon]

Great tutorial! I don't do podcast (but one never knows) but I do edit multi-track audio and the combination of the pencil and Ferrite seems pretty powerful. I will try it!

[@beardfm]

Thanks! And I’ve used it for non-podcast editing too, even orchestral multi-track recordings!

[@LesProductionsZvon]

@@beardfm Cool, thanks!

[@minghonsiu]

This is magical!! May I know how do you edit your videos? Do you use the iPad too?

[@jesuisYop]

Awesome :) I have the same workflow but with an iPad pro (2018). The screen of the mini is enough with more tracks?

[@beardfm]

2018 Pro is still a killer machine! And depends on how many you’re editing, but I’ve done up to 5 and it still works well. If you’re consistently doing more tracks than that an 11” may be a better fit.

[@JasonMingHong]

Is there any way to automatically trim silence such as Adobe Audition does?

[@beardfm]

There is! I use it all the time. Tap a clip, right arrow on contextual menu, Strip silence.

[@JasonMingHong]

@@beardfm that's awesome! What about using that in a multitrack? Is this also available?

[@beardfm]

For sure! You have to apply the strip silence to each track separately though as you may want to adjust threshold, etc

[@DaryleHamel]

Bro, you didn’t watch video or pay enough attention - 09:09

[@gugong]

Can I edit 32bit audio with this app ?

[@PlumaTheRVSerama]

Thank you for the information. Can I record my podcast on Ferrite directly?

[@beardfm]

You can! It supports multitrack recording with an external device

[@desertbebe7331]

Hi there, great video! Two questions: 1 are you using the anger hub on your mini? The ones I see listed are for iPad Pro. 2. Would love to see more about the templates you made

[@beardfm]

Hey! It’s actually from Hyper: www.hypershop.com/collections/usb-c-hubs-for-ipad-pro-air-1/products/hyperdrive-6-in-1-hub-for-ipad And will do a follow-up soon!

[@RannMayL]

Do you need WiFi or internet to edit on the app?

[@beardfm]

Not at all!

[@RannMayL]

Thanks for your response. I have another qu estion; my waveforms are too small, is there a way to increase them or just the height for visibi l ity? Even if i zoom in it's still too small

[@Toar1287]

Great video. I’ve watched it a handful of times and learn something with every watch. Thank you!

[@beardfm]

Glad it was helpful!

[@fletcherbrown728]

Just an excellent video. Regardless of the subject matter this is well scripted, well filmed, well lighted and your voice,delivery and pace are great.

[@beardfm]

Thanks Fletcher, appreciate that!

[@t0nyxgq]

Thanks for the great tips! I got Ferrite Pro from your demonstration. It's amazing and I'm looking forward to editing audio in this way.

[@beardfm]

Glad it was helpful! Love Ferrite

[@shaneeegan]

sSper simply done! thanks so much Steve! Shane, Tipperary, Ireland

[@beardfm]

Thanks Shane!

[@StefanWolfrum]

Awesome, Stephen! I‘m a podcast host for some years now (it‘s in German and called „iOS produktiv“ which means, well, „iOS productive“) and we talk about iOS and iPadOS and how it can be used productivly (you guessed it 😂). BUT … my co-host and I produce it almost always on Macs. We use Reaper with the Ultraschall Add-on and afterwards Auphonic for audio optimization. This setup seems to be very common here in Germany - but apparently almost nowhere else?! Now … because we‘re promoting iOS and iPadOS and the use of iPads for almost anything you want to do with a computer we really looked at way to also produce our podcast on/with iPads/iPhones. We know Ferrite for quite a long time now but to be honest … I never found a way to use it adequately. I always found it quite un-intuitive and a bis „strange“ and „different“ compared to „normal“ i[Pad]OS apps. When Ferrite added support for i[Pad]OS compatible multitrack audio hardware we tried again. (Sometimes two channels are not enough, sometimes we have guests). Okay, recording worked on the iPad. But, still, editing … nah … But your video, Stephen, really gave me the confidence now to start another attempt! I‘ll try it again! As long as my co-host and I can actually meet in person (if Covid lets us!) we can record directly into the iPad with different setups (like, e.g., the Røde Wireless Go II microphones, as long as we‘re only two speakers). It‘s going to be fun! Thanks again for lowering the bar for me to actually try Ferrite for editing podcasts again! 🤗

[@StefanWolfrum]

Question, though: What do you do if your „incoming“ (= original, imported, raw, recorded) audio files‘ levels are too low? You said that the auto level feature works fine but it only applies at the very end of the editing session, when you finally export everything into one MP3 file, right? But editing with too low levels is no fun / doesn‘t really work. Is there a way of amplifying or normalizing single tracks in Ferrite? Or would you recommend to do that outside of Ferrite? I know about the Volume knobs that each track has but what if it‘s already at its maximum value and the track is still too low in volume? Should we use the „Warm Amplfier“ effect on those tracks? Will that work?

[@beardfm]

You’ll want to add a compressor effect to the channel with low volume and turn up the gain. Just be careful as if you leave that cranked high it may distort the final file. Hope that helps!

[@mysticheart4685]

Question: Why do you not edit in Garage band?

[@beardfm]

I edit way faster with Pencil and iPad than keyboard and mouse.

[@RomanRogner]

Thank you! How do you do deleting gesture in 8:35? I cannot do this :-)

[@beardfm]

You’ll need an Pencil, then change the settings in Ferrite to offer different controls for fingers and pencil. Then you can select drag left to delete sections.

[@RomanRogner]

@@beardfm Thank you. Can I do this without Pencil only with finger?

[@MirceaSerediuc]

Thanks a lot of this video

[@beardfm]

You’re welcome!

[@liquidgroove]

Thanks so much for this. Your editing was super fast and slick and it looked like a lot of fun! After almost a decade hiatus - I’m looking at returning to podcasting. And considering maybe even doing freelance editing- which would be a breeze using using this. I have the base iPad mini 6 - would it be possible to edit off of an external drive?

[@beardfm]

You’re welcome! And if you plan to use Ferrite or GarageBand for editing those apps will copy the files to the iPad itself. You can always export the finished file to the external drive and delete the project in the app, but the only app I know that lets you *edit* files on an external drive is Lima Fusion which is mainly for video

[@liquidgroove]

Do you have the 256 iPad mini ?

[@beardfm]

I do! With all the audio files I work with I wanted the larger storage

[@liquidgroove]

@@beardfm thanks for your reply! 6 months in, I wish I went for the 256 model! Do you edit other podcasts too, other than your film review one?

[@beardfm]

I do! AppleInsider and HomeKit Insider as well

[@So-sj1hr]

Thanks! Great Video

[@beardfm]

Appreciate it!

[@So-sj1hr]

@@beardfm searched for a good best practice with ferrite to talkover the intro. I‘ll try your tip

[@beardfm]

Setting your host as duck king and then music as ducked should do the trick!

[@tiffanyhebert3598]

How do you edit audio recorded with someone on anchor ? I need noise reduction etc

[@beardfm]

I’ve not used Anchor for recording, but can you export separate audio files per participant?

[@tiffanyhebert3598]

@@beardfm No, it is recorded in tandem onto anchor and is one singular audio feed. We are recording together from different parts of the country. She joins a room basically.

[@beardfm]

Not having separate tracks will be a challenge. Ferrite app on iPad has a Noise Reduction filter built-in (one of the pre-production options for an audio track). You can use Voice Isolation in Final Cut, Capture Noise Print in Adobe Audition, or use iZotope RX9 plugins.

[@tiffanyhebert3598]

I am going to have to google that entire last sentence 😂😂😂. Thankyou so much for your thoughtful and quick reply’s. I appreciate it.

[@beardfm]

😂 was trying to give you all the names you could use. Cheapest option is probably Ferrite app for iPad