Hello,
As many of you may be aware, I have a podcast called Visionary Voices.
I am planning to take my podcast production setup on the road when I travel.
I have installed Ferrite 3 Pro, but I am experiencing significant frustration.
I have several files that I need to organize in a specific order, but I am unable to achieve this despite my efforts.
I am using an iPad Pro running iPadOS 26.2 with a Magic Keyboard.
Could anyone provide me with guidance on how to resolve this issue?
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What order?
You were asked this last time and never answered. Are you trying to order multiple audio clips on a single track? Are you trying to order tracks in a specific way? Both? Something else? Just telling us you need some kind of order is singularly unhelpful.
Yes to both
Hello,
My sincerest apologies for not replying to the last comment on this topic, but I honestly didn't see it.
The answer to both of your questions is yes.
I am trying to put everything on one track.
Here's the order I need the files in:
*Guitar intro music
* My vocal intro, where I introduce myself (I forgot to during one episode)
* the interview itself which will differ for each episode
* listener line info
* comments left on the listener line
* outro music
What steps are you taking so far?
Walk me through what you're doing. I mean, do you have multiple files recorded, and you're trying to bring them in but can't? Are they imported into Ferrite, but you can't figure out how to order them on a single track, i.e. how to place them all? Are you recording this more or less live and can't figure out how to order/reorder things?
This was kind of covered already.
Here's a podcast. Basically if you have your files recorded already, get to the end of the clip you're starting with, and import. I'll bet there's a quicker way to get to the end than repeatedly fast-forwarding, which is what's happening here, I think. A lot of Ferrite's accessibility involves using a Bluetooth keyboard, that's where you get all of the shortcuts. But I'll bet you could hold and drag the playhead or something like that, if you wanted to use the screen.
https://www.applevis.com/podcasts/quick-tip-advanced-audio-editing-ferrite-recording-studio-ios
If this doesn't help you let us know what you're doing and I'll start experimenting.
Ah, ok. I see what I was missing!
Hello,
I was missing a step that wasn't obvious to me.
After inserting a clip, you have to press fast forward, to reach the end, otherwise, you'll have the issue I did yesterday, where clips play simultaneously.
The next thing I need to figure out, which may be easier to do on my iPad, is create a gap for my interview. Does anyone know how to do this on an iPhone using the touchscreen?.
Why do you need a gap?
If you're doing intro music, spoek intro, interview, something to finish it, why not just add, get to the end, and add again?
My guess though, is that if you turn on ripple editing, split whatever clip you want the gap in, and insert the interview, the clip to the rightwill be moved over by the length of the interview. That's where I'd start looking anyway.
ducking
Another option, because generally how podcasts etc are done is, intro music with the voice intro layered over the music, the music is ducked while the speach is playing. Then again, others do it differently but, it depends on how do you want to do it. Its an option, though.
Answering the question of why I need a gap?
Hi,
To answer the question of why I need a gap, the user guide recommends it, if you're doing an interview-style podcast, which I am.
I don’t understand the other part of your response, where you said something about moving to the end.
Would you be willing to clarify that for me?
Re: Moving.
As I understand it, you want your podcast to end up like this.
1. Intro music or whatever.
2. Vocal intro.
3. Interview.
4. Outro music or whatever.
So if you have all of these recorded separately, here's what you wanted to know first. Start with clip 1, then make clip 2 follow it on the track. That's what the podcast gave you.
OK, so now why not just repeat the same steps to add clips 3 and 4?
I'd do it a bit differently myself
If you have the four tracks, music intro, vocal intro, interview, then outro or the ending, the way that I would do it, music intro first, in the middle of the music intro, insert the vocal intro, whilst ducking, (lowering the music intro's volume,), so the vocal intro is heard over it; and then after that, insert track three, the interview. that’s how I have seen multiple podcasts be done, and that's also how i've done it myself when briefly working for podcasters with the music intro and the vocal intro overlapping, and, not one after the other. Then again, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but this is fairly usually how it’s done, unless your music intro is like really short, say five seconds then yeah putting vocal intro after the 3, 5 seconds intro makes sence.
Yep.
But I was going with what OP said they wanted to do.
OP, could you quote the part of the manual where it talks about having gaps in an interview podcast? I've just had a quick look and I'm not finding it. So it would be useful to know what you're looking at and what you want to do and why you want to do it.
Here's some information, from Gemini.
Good morning,
The following information was gathered by providing the user guide to Google Gemini & asking a number of questions.
To insert a gap of a specific length in your project, Ferrite uses a feature called "Insert Silence." This is the most precise way to move all subsequent clips forward to make room for your interview.
Since you are a VoiceOver user, follow these steps to set the length of the gap exactly:
1. Position the Playhead
First, navigate your playhead to the exact point where you want the interview to begin. Using the Rotor (set to Bookmarks) is a quick way to jump to the mark you made earlier.
2. Access the "Insert Silence" Command
* Using the Menu: Press fn+M (as you are on iPad) to jump to the Menu Bar.
* Navigate to the Edit menu.
* Find and select "Insert Silence..."
3. Setting the Length
When you select "Insert Silence," a dialog box will appear. With VoiceOver, you can interact with the time fields:
* The dialog will ask for the Duration of the silence you want to insert.
* You can adjust the hours, minutes, and seconds. Since you likely know the length of your interview, you can enter that duration here.
* Pro Tip: If you aren't sure of the exact length, it's often better to insert a slightly longer gap than you need; you can always use the "Tighten Audio" command later to pull the remaining clips back toward the end of your interview.
4. Alternative: The "Ripple" Method
If you don't want to type in a specific time, you can perform a "Ripple Move":
* Select all clips to the right: In the Track Tools menu, there is an option to "Select All Following."
* Once they are selected, you can move them as a group.
* VoiceOver Tip: With the clips selected, use the Actions Rotor and select "Nudge Right." This will move all your following content down the timeline, creating a gap manually.
Summary for your workflow:
* Go to your Mark (fn+M to find the menu or use the Rotor).
* Choose Edit > Insert Silence.
* Enter the length of the interview recording.
* Ferrite will automatically push all your "show notes" or existing audio further down the timeline, leaving a perfect hole for you to drop the interview into.
Ferrite 3 Editing Quick Walkthrough
This video provides a visual overview of the new interface in Ferrite 3, which can help in understanding how the menus and track arrangements have been updated in the version you are using.
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Does anyone know if there’s a way to set a mark without the use of a keyboard? I didn’t see a command for that.
Re: inserting silence.
I don't know, I don't even see that as a command in the manual. Seriously though, get a portable Bluetooth keyboard. It will make your life easier. It's not just because that's where a lot of shortcuts live for Voiceover. Here's a sighted dude, I presume anyway, talking about how he edits a podcast with Ferrite, might give you some other ideas too, at least to try.
https://www.macstories.net/stories/how-i-edit-podcasts-on-the-ipad-using-ferrite/
Note the use of keyboard shortcuts. I'd guess you want to get into a menu though. So double tap and hold on the playhead? That would be my first try, after you get it to where you want to insert silence, of course.
What would probably be more helpful is the manual, rather than handing us AI guesses. As you can see, I just guessed myself, I don't need AI's help with that. I'm not saying this to be a jerk. It's just that you said "the manual said you should", I asked where it says that so I can try to understand what it's getting at, and you came back with, here's some AI saying something!
That's cool, but what I'm after is what's behind it? What goal are we actually trying to accomplish, and why do we want to do it? Because there could be more than one way to do it. For instance, if you look at the discussion on stripping silence in the user guide, there's a tighten command, which is a pro feature, but it also discusses doing something similar with ripple.
Presumably there are reasons why you might want to use one over the other, maybe one gives you more manual control and you want that, or for us, maybe one is more accessible than the other. Or maybe they're just two different ways of accomplishing the exact same thing and they work equally well for all of us, and it's just a preference.
So let's look at what you want to do. If you check out that article, his template is set up with intro on one track, the speaking on two tracks, then the outro on a final track. So it might be easier to just do that and then move the starting time of your speech track. There you go, whatever kind of gap you want. I don't know if that's so, because I really need to buckle down and play with Ferrite at some point and I just haven't gotten round to it yet. But my point is, there are probably multiple ways to do this, and some of them might be easier than others.