3x Tips to Streamline Your Podcast Editing Workflow

🤔 Al Pete from the Flowers For The Culture Podcast asks, "Are there any tricks or integrations I should use to decrease the amount of time it takes to edit my podcast?"

TL;DR
It's easy to spend hours upon hours refining and critiquing your podcast to make sure you deliver consistent, high-quality episodes to your audience. But if you're looking to optimize your workflow and produce the same high-quality episodes in less time, there are some proven strategies you can implement.

In this episode, we'll cover the top 3 ways that you can streamline your podcast editing workflow

#1. Use Templates

Templates allow you to reuse work you've done in the past so you don't have to keep repeating your work for every podcast episode. Some low-hanging fruit would be creating email templates for prepping your guests for interviews, starting with the previous episode project in your editing software and keeping your intro and outro segments saved, and copying your show notes from the last episode to get a head start.

#2. Batch Production

Another way to speed up your workflow is to work on multiple episodes at the same time. Schedule all of your interviews for the month during the same week. Edit 3-4 episodes in one sitting. Create show notes and upload 3-4 episodes at the same time.

You'll find that batch production unlocks another level of efficiency and can easily reduce the amount of time you spend on each episode by 50%.

#3. Software Integrations

Find software solutions that work well together. This will streamline your workflow beyond what you could do on your own.

For example, you can edit your podcast in Alitu, Hindenburg Journalist Pro, or Descript and publish it directly to Buzzsprout. This saves you the hassle of exporting the episode to your computer, opening your web browser, and manually uploading that episode to your podcast host. Add up those little time savings over the course of a year and you'll see some big-time savings!

💻 Software that integrates with Buzzsprout

Bonus - Magic Mastering

Magic Mastering is a new feature available to Buzzsprout podcasters that automatically mixes and masters your podcast episodes. Once you assembled all the pieces of your podcast episode, simply upload to Buzzsprout using your normal workflow and we'll take care of the rest.

Check out all of the things Magic Mastering does for your podcast.

Review Podcasting Q&A in Podchaser to let us know what you think of the show

==== Time Stamps ====

00:00 - Introduction
00:17 - "How do I streamline my editing workflow?"
01:03 - Use Templates
02:32 - Batch Production
03:41 - Software Integrations
05:07 - Magic Mastering

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[RenaldoQuestelles]

I love how y’all do these video it build confidence in y’all platform. When I return to a steady income I’ll return to Buzzsprout.

[EvolvingwithEtta]

I love watching your very informative videos. I may have to change my distribution home. Thank you 👍🏽

[annaakosua]

I wish I could do more batch work. My episodes are typically 45 min - 1 hour long - not including the research, etc. Will need to figure out a good way to batch work that better. Since my format is not interview based, it seems a lot to record multiple episodes a day but I’ll figure out a good workflow that works for me 💪🏾. Thanks for the great tips!

[MichaelBabich]

I'd share my experience.

1) I created a complete template episode folder with all set basics for a new episode. So I just copy this template folder and this already has all the files structure, and Audition session with all music, etc to just open and start assembling an episode into a structures session with newly recorded files.

2) Also in Audition I've recorded Favorites with around 8-10 steps that automatically make a file ready for more granular manual cleaning with just one click. It saves me many hours per episode. My one big recommendation is to really learn how to clean audio with effects -- not manually -- and just apply those effects to eliminate as much manual audio cleaning as possible. The majority of audio cleaning issues could be automated.

P.S. Thanks for the channel and recommendation. It's really useful.

[sotherewas]

Great tips and advice as always! Are there other ways you can record multi track audio without a mixer?

[SpanishandGo]

4:41 Yes! But _please_ integrate with Zapier! This would save us so much time! Love you guys. -Jim

[MikeCline]

So I just watched your previous video on Auphonic. Is magic mastering a newer
Feature you would recommend instead? Bye bye auphonic?