[spicybright]

I'm going to sound like a negative nancey, but I wish podcasters/youtubers would just practice their speaking skills instead of rely on series of really quick jump cuts. Worst offenders are those that can't get through a sentence without splicing it 2+ times...

Perhaps you could have a mode to detect how much one stutters, and parts worth redoing without spending as much time combing the whole thing.

[intrasight]

Some podcasts I listen to are over-edited. I'd always assumed that a) it was done manually and b) it was done to keep the length below some threshold. Now I'm curious if they are using software to automate the editing.

I find the cadence very unnatural when all the spaces between phonemes are removed.

[ghaff]

>I find the cadence very unnatural when all the spaces between phonemes are removed.

Any editing can be overdone and, while I do a modicum of editing out umms, you knows, and other verbal ticks when I'm putting together a podcast interview, I'm not fanatical about it.

You do occasionally get someone who just speaks quite slowly and it is sort of annoying to listen to as audio. So I've done some automated gap reduction is a couple cases.

[intrasight]

What software do you use to automate?

[ghaff]

Audacity.

[cube00]

Especially ones who won't set their background LED lights to a stable color. The smooth flowing gradient becomes very distracting when you jump cut the heck out of it.

[intrasight]

synesthesia?

[pfortuny]

Classically professionals learnt their discourses by heart. That stands out when you see it.

I remember fondly a student of mine who seemed unable to express himself properly. I told him to memorize his final project dissertation because otherwise it would be a wreck (OK, I did not say this last part, it was more of a suggestion).

BOY: did he memorize it. He got an honors and I did think “this guy has really done it, and it sounds like music!”

When you do it well, it tells.

[curiousgal]

Once I started noticing jumpcuts it ruined every single YouTube video with a person talking into the camera. The worst offender being Phillip DeFranco.

[unholiness]

Interesting take. I saw Phillip DeFranco as more of a pioneer of that style. He really leaned into the cuts. At the time it was something no one else was doing so it was very noticeable, and he had a very crisp cadence with them where the jarring cuts were part of the presentation. It was clear his process was: Write a script, mark cuts everywhere it could make sense, go through the script repeating every phrase until you're happy with the sound, and when editing, always make the cuts where they're marked, even if it could be skipped.

The result feels something like pixel art: Clearly not the closest possible imitation of conversational speaking, but something else. A style in its own right with different considerations.

Now that it's par for the course to have jump cuts, I see them used more sloppily everywhere, where it's clear the narrator decided where to do the cuts after the fact. Cutting off the beginning or end of a phoneme, missing or repeating bits of a thought because they they liked one phrasing in recording but opted for another one in post, misordered cuts where something which moved in the background moves back to its old place, etc. Phillip's style looked lazy but it can't really be imitated with actual laziness.

These days I look back and really cringe at the substance of his show. But I still see the style as professional.

[ghaff]

I find talking into a camera really tough. If you're doing it by yourself you almost need to imagine you're talking to a person. I even know of people who put cutouts or pictures of someone by the camera so they can talk to a person.

I haven't had a lot of luck using teleprompters but maybe I just haven't hit of the right setup.

Something else someone told me recently was to try to work in short segments that you redo until you get right and then do a cut to the next segment somewhere that it's natural.