ELECTRONIC EDITING Book: “Modern Radio Production” by Hausman, Benoit, Messere, & O’Donnell: Chapter 6 Pertemuan 5 Matakuliah: O Dasar-Dasar Produksi Siaran Radio Tahun: 2010

Bina Nusantara University 3 THE BASICS of SPLICING and DUBBING SPLICING: the sound is physically cut apart and tape back together again. Usually it refers to audiotape rather than manipulating electronic sounds file. DUBBING: transferring sound from source to source electronically instead of snipping and cutting. EDITING: the process of rearranging, correcting, and assembling a finished product

Bina Nusantara University 4 Splicing and Editing a Sound File Destructive Editing; a lot like using the cut-and- paste function on a word processor, occurs when the splice is made and the sound file is changed. –what you choose to include in the newcast will be called the “sound bite.” Nondestructive Editing (copying); occurs when the original audio components are retained and can be reused if the edit does not work out to your satisfaction.

Bina Nusantara University 5 MARKING EDIT POINTS (for Destructive Editing) Before Editing Mayor: We have decided to go ahead with construction of a new crosstown expressway from the junction of interstate 440 to, as you can see the right here on the map, commercial street, where there will be a major interchange. After Editing Mayor: “We have decided to go ahead with construction of a new crosstown expressway from the junction of interstate 440 to, as you can see right here on the map.

Bina Nusantara University 6 Splicing and Editing a Sound File Though the destructive method of editing work just fine, you might make a mistake. Nondestructive Editing is a better solution because you can edit the file by marking and choosing certain “regions” within the sound file that you want to play back. (try on the “Cool Edit Pro”) Nondestructive editing has the advantage of allowing you to change your edit points as many times as you want, without altering the original sound file. It also allows you to play segments of the audio file out of their original order.

Bina Nusantara University 7 COPYING, PASTING, and LOOPING Most digital audio workstation allow the user to create a region within a sound file called a loop. Just as the name implies, a loop is useful for taking a small segment of music or a SFx and making it longer. Drumming or other percussive segments of music frequently make exciting background tracks. Looping makes it possible to repeat rhytmic phrases, thus creating longer portions that you can use in audio production.

Bina Nusantara University 8 DUBBING When you dub, you essentially copy a source in one location to another location or a different medium. But the technology that allows you to dub is essentially the same as the technology that allows you to splice and edit. Dubbing from one source to another too many times can cause the quality of the recording to deteriorate. (particularly when you are dubbing with a minidisc) Every new dub of a recording is known as another generation.

Bina Nusantara University 9 ADVANTAGES of DUBBING Dubbing allows you to overlap elements. If, for example, you want to edit in a piece of music and talk over it, fading the music out, you will have to use dubbing or more sophisticated features of the DAW. Another plus of dubbing is that it can be accomplished very quickly.

Bina Nusantara University 10 ADVANTAGES of DUBBING Dubbing will probably account for most of the editing work you’ll do. Station get most of their music on CDs or from a music service, and they dub this music onto a hard disk for playback Dubbing is very useful in editing because it’s less work than some other forms of electronic editing.