Dramatically Speed Up your Audio Editing with Reaper Actions

Dramatically Speed Up your Audio Editing with Reaper Actions

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(La vidéo est uniquement en anglais.)Watch this tutorial video, from I.Nesbitt of IMS, to learn how you can turbo-charge your audio editing workflow with Reaper.

New Spreadsheet for Estimating Recording and Editing Times

By John Gieske

Recording time estimates in the Essential Audio Recording Scripts (EARS) are a good starting point, but I've found that many factors can make the same book take longer in one language than in another. This new spreadsheet allows me to adjust recording time estimates for each language that I work with.

I then added a sheet to estimate how long editing and mastering will take, either for a single-voice narration or for a multivoice dramatization. There is also the option to indicate what percentage of a recording will be done in-studio and how much will be recorded in a remote location. The final calculations allow me to give both time and cost estimates to language teams who need to complete their 3-year budgets.  

I realize that parts of this spreadsheet are specific to my situation. For that reason I've made notes so you can easily modify the formulae to suit your work.

John Gieske is a Vernacular Media Consultant who lives in Senegal with his wife, Sarah, and their three children. He has a BA in global mass communications and a decade of experience on the field, especially in audio recording and production.

Staff Corner — Ntuthuko “Bops” Bophela

Le coin du personnel — Ntuthuko “Bops” Bophela

We understand Ntuthuko is Zulu for “progress.” Where were you born? Tell us about your family. 

I was born in Mbombela (formerly Nelspruit), in the province of Mpumalanga, in South Africa. In September of 2017, I married an amazing woman, beyond all I ever dreamed, and we are trusting God for our first child this year.