Work From Home Editing Podcasts // $50 - $100 Dollars an Hour

Hey Steve, my name is Lio. I am a proficient audip producer and I've been trying to get into the online market (Voice Overs, Podcasts, etc). I have all of the technical experience and more, but none of the online experience. Do your courses include a guide to create an online portfolio and looking for clients?

From my experience, it's better to build a studio and rent it out to those who want their little talk show or podcast. Then offer the audio/video editing as a plus. Me and a buddy are doing this right now. It builds more trust when there's a physical aspect to it. There's no way I'm going to compete online with these freelancer sites to edit podcasts for pennies. Just not realistic.

Thank you. Simple and inspiring to make my beginner’s steps into podcasting. Edit first gig “pro bono”, why not !) I’m going for it 🎉

The things is, I'm a great editor but I can't get a toe into the door on the freelancing sites because they are set up to only reward people who are already successful. No client is going to risk being my first customer then the website not only doesn't display my profile and offers but there are 5 other guys who have hundreds of completed products.

Hi Steve, you are helping people. Thanks. Your videos are nice, very clear and easy to follow and seems genuine. Thank you very much.

What about Audacity?

What do I do if I can't find anyone to work on a podcast for? I feel as if I am stuck in a never ending loop of not being able to find work because of no "experience". I know I could do the job but I don't have a portfolio or anything because I have only recently started looking at podcast work. I am used to editing audio for music pre mixing.

Good video, Is the compressor, eq any good in descript? I think I would rather do that in a daw with some waves plugins but it might be quicker to do it all, including publishing it, in descript?

Imagine removing the "Um's and Uh's" on a Trudeau speech? There'd be nothing left!

Love this. I was asked to edit some podcasts, no experience at all, while treading water in the deep end of descript, I found this and it was just what I needed to hear. Great information. Thank you Steve! Soon I shall be on the high dive.

New sub! Audio engineer here. 2017 grad who didn’t even think about this until yesterday. 💪🏾💪🏾 was mostly in live sound or studio work. This will be perfect!!

Maybe this is a dumb question. But do you happen to have a video of uploading a podcast/ audio for a client? I'm probably missing something but I dont want to pay for their host subscription. Any info on this would be much appreciated!

Thanks a lot bro.

This is just an ad for Descript. I doubt that Descript identifies mouth noise, breaths, and plosives. There is absolutely no way to approach 1X editing time. This guy is a fraud.

Steve! Hindenburg is great for podcast editing. I use it with all my client's podcasts and they love the sound. Plus that there's auto leveling and they're about to roll out an Auphonic integration. Hope you'll consider them for future videos. Steph Fuccio

Wow, watching how they grew one cup in less than a month was admittedly shocking, I used what I talked about the other day, and well it actually took about 6 weeks for them to totally grow by two cups, I just go’ogled Mika Klopsworth and now the looks I get are so worth it.

did he co back?

Breezed over the only bit of the video we came for - how to get gigs. Just join Upwork or 'networking' is such vague, nondescript, unspecific and generally shit advice for anyone looking to not get completely exploited. Upwork + fiver = $15 per podcast episode if you're lucky. Most people willing to pay $100 per episode will hire an editor via an established agency anyway, not on upwork. Come on, be real ffs

What if I’m already advertising myself as a musician on my socials? Does that mean id need whole new profiles?

hey i just want say i appreciate you for sharing this

Amazing, Amazing, Amazing Video Bro.

Outside of the full transcripts, I have tried all of this and don't have much luck on gaining clients.

it's take 3-5 minutes per 1 minute of recorded audio, so even if you charge $250-$350, you're not going to making anywhere near $100 per hour. Editing always takes long than you think it will.

With the changes in PT's packages, do you still recommend that podcast editing be only accessible at the levels of Pro Tools Studio and Flex, or do you think Artist can handle it? So far, I haven't run into anything in Artist that makes me wish I still had my Studio subscription. The difference in price is huge... Artist is only $10 a month.

I like the way you describe everythings related to freelancing

Can you use Logic Pro tools?

This is the best full package description of how the process works. I appreciate your quality and delivery. Stoked to learn more!

Why include non-editing tasks in an editing package. Have you experimented with offering 3 tears? 1. Basic Editing 2. Professional editing 3. Full Podcast Management/Production

i registered on upwork to do exactly just this about a year ago, and remember not being accepted, because it wasn't enough variety of skills, basically. i understood this as i maybe needed to offer the ability to edit a podcast in video format as well? which made me give up on the idea. so it's interesting to see this recommendation based only on audio podcasts, so now as i'm looking back into this, i wonder what the best approach would be. if to learn to edit video 1st and try to offer both services, or one really could start offering audio services following the advice here and just learn video on the side

edit: btw, great that you recommend reaper as a software and not something like audacity! reaper is way too amazing

Great video, but seems too good to be true. Also, with zero experience with some of these mentioned tools? IDK.

This is great because I was just talk about how I would like to be a podcast editor. I have my podcast and I quite enjoy editing it. Great timing with the video!

I LOVE this

i charge more than $100/episode because I also provide the gear/location to the client. can we get this same breakdown for producing video podcasts aswell!!!

Super interested in doing this especially since starting my own podcast last year and buying a new laptop to help my friend with editing. Just a little nervous on where to start 😓

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