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Essential Key Command or Keyboard Shortcuts in Audacity

Lesson 26 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video Production

Tomas George

Essential Key Command or Keyboard Shortcuts in Audacity

Lesson 26 from: Audio Recording 101: Record Voice Audio for Video Production

Tomas George

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Lesson Info

26. Essential Key Command or Keyboard Shortcuts in Audacity

<b>In this lesson, you will learn some essential key commands or keyboard shortcuts for Audacity.</b>

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Introduction and Welcome to this Course

00:50
2

Listen to your Recording Environment

03:43
3

Room Treatment Tips

03:07
4

Dynamic vs Condenser Microphones

02:35
5

Recommended Pro-Level Microphones

02:55
6

Recommended Budget Level Mics

02:35
7

Microphone Audio Comparisons

05:53
8

What is an Audio Interface and How is it Useful

01:48
9

Recommended Pro-Level Audio Interfaces

01:35
10

Recommended Budget-Level Audio Interfaces

01:46
11

My Thoughts on USB Microphones

00:45
12

Microphone Positioning and Accessories

04:09
13

Essential Microphone Polar Patterns

03:17
14

Recommended Monitors and Headphones

03:55
15

Other Audio Monitoring Tips

02:41
16

Introduction to Capturing Audio

00:18
17

Recommend Audio Recording Software and DAWs

06:28
18

A Quick Look at Some Handy Recorders

02:39
19

Audacity Introduction

00:45
20

Setting up to Record Audio in Audacity

03:49
21

How to Record Audio into Audacity

02:54
22

Other Features of Audacity - Playback, Zoom, Undo + Save

04:15
23

How to Export Audio out of Audacity

03:37
24

Essential Audio Editing Tools in Audacity

08:07
25

Removing Silence, Splitting + Joining Clips

03:17
26

Essential Key Command or Keyboard Shortcuts in Audacity

03:06
27

Removing Background Noise Introduction

02:48
28

How to use the Noise Gate Effect in Audacity

12:54
29

How to use the Noise Reduction Effect in Audacity

11:15
30

Mixing and Processing your Audio Introduction

02:32
31

A Quick Look at the Filter Curve or EQ Effect

10:35
32

A Quick Look at Compression and the Normalize Effect

11:21
33

How to set up an Effects Macro in Audacity

03:23
34

Adding Audio Effects to Audio Clips in Premiere Pro

06:06
35

Gain/Volume in Premiere Pro

03:36
36

Parametric EQ - Part 1 : An Overview of EQ and the Plugin

11:08
37

Parametric EQ - Part 2A : Mixing Examples

15:56
38

Parametric EQ - Part 2B : Mixing Examples - Example 2

11:31
39

Parametric EQ - Part 3 - More Settings + Features

05:14
40

Noise Reduction in Premiere Pro - Part 1: DeNoise

09:24
41

Noise Reduction in Premiere Pro - Part 2: DeReverb

06:25
42

Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 1: Introduction

02:47
43

Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 2: Threshold + Ratio

04:16
44

Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 3: Make up Gain

03:15
45

Audio Compression in Premiere Pro - Part 4: Attack and Release + 2nd Example

06:30
46

How to use a DeEsser Audio Effect in Premiere Pro

12:00
47

How to use the Hard Limiter Audio Effect in Premiere Pro

06:48
48

How to use an Audio Meter in Premiere Pro - Loudness Radar

08:28
49

Behind the Scenes of my Audio Recording Equipment

07:16
50

Thanks and Bye

00:12

Lesson Info

Essential Key Command or Keyboard Shortcuts in Audacity

OK. So now let's have a look at a few essential keyboard shortcuts or key commands for audacity. We do of course have the basic ones that we have for most applications such as select all with command, A on Mac or control A on windows undo with command Z on mac or control, Z on windows, redo A shift command Z on mac or control Y on windows. And of course, copy with command C on Mac or control C on windows and pace with command V on mac or control V on windows. I'm just going to undo what I did there with command Z or mac or control Z on windows and delete, which we looked at previously. So we can select the area. We'd like to delete with the select all delete this and then the audio will snap back to fill in the gap again. I'm just going to undo this with command Z on Mac or control Z on Windows. OK? This isn't a key command, but I'm just going to show fade in and fade out as well. So I'm just going to select the area at the end and then go over to effect. And here go on, fade out. We a...

lso have fade in here as well. So you can see the audio gradually fade out here at the end, but I just want it to be a bit more powerful. Again, I'm just going to undo this with command Z and at the start, we could fade in, for example. So again, let's go to effect and fade it. Piece of velocity of the bass drum on every beat. And again, I'm just going to undo this. Fading in and fading out may be more useful for music rather than spoken voice, but that's how you can do it. And other key commands is space bar to play from the play head or vertical line. So I'm gonna select and we can loop the play back by pressing shift and space bar. So if we have an area selected like this, we can loop this play back with shift and space bar. So I'm gonna select all the bass drums by clicking. So I'm gonna select all the bass and we can pause with B drums by and of course, we can record where the keyboard shortcut are. We can jump to the start of the track with JAY velocity of the base drive and we can jump to the end of the track with K. And of course, we have the zoom controls which we looked at earlier command one on Mac or control one on Windows to Zoom in command two on mac or control two on windows to go to the default zoom amount and command three on mac or control three on windows to zoom out. You can also zoom in or zoom out. So the entire audio of your project fits on the screen by using the key command command F on Mac or control F on windows. And of course, we can save with command S on Mac or control S on windows. And another essential key command is exporting your audio and you can do this on Mac with shift command E or control shift E on windows. OK. So that is some of the main key commands or keyboard shortcuts for audacity. I hope you found this video useful and I'll see you in the next one.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials

40._Audio_Examples_for_Noise_Reduction.zip
34._Audio_Examples_for_Premiere_Pro_Audio_Mixing.zip
30._Downloadable_Audio_Examples.zip

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