Maintaining Proper Timing When Editing

When editing a conversation, part of your job is to clean up sections containing:

• People talking over each other
• Unintentional awkward pauses
• Unnecessary filler words (umms, etc.)
• Silence that is too long or too short
• Etc. etc.

And when you’re done cleaning up those elements, another part of your job is to make sure that the final audio sounds 100% natural in terms of timing, flow and naturalness.

If you edit a piece of audio but simultaneously cause the natural timing of the conversation to be distorted, in my opinion that’s not a good edit. Because consciously or unconsciously the listener’s experience will be interrupted by their brain saying, “Whoa, that sounded weird…”

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