074 - Backing Up Your Work

Please make sure you back up your work as you edit. And let me give you some ideas on some simple ways to name multiple versions of your work to make it easy to go back to a previous edit. Here are a couple of examples: This is a simple numbering system: myrecording_001.wav myrecording_002.wav myrecording_003.wav myrecording_004.wav myrecording_005.wav or The same system with annotations: This is a simple numbering system myrecording_001_(source_file).wav myrecording_002.wav myrecording_003_(normalized).wav myrecording_004_(auphonic).wav myrecording_005(added_music).wav Another way using timestamps of the date I'm editing plus where I've reached in the timeline in hours_minutes: myrecording_20210318_00_10.wav myrecording_20210318_00_25.wav myrecording_20210318_00_50.wav myrecording_20210319_01_10.wav myrecording_20210319_01_30.wav PRODUCTION NOTES Recording location: Sitting on my bed Microphone: I used a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 phone (no windcover) handheld into the phone mic Headphones: None Recording app: Auphonic Edit for Android. Recording format: WAV Sample rate: 48000Hz Editing app: Adobe Audition Sound Treatment: Auphonic.com Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto) I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock. Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps .m4a file