The process of recording podfic

[nny]

I just saw an interesting comment on the multipodicity/podremix that stated that the ratio of finished podfic length to recording/editing time is something like 1:10 although it can be up to 1:20. I confess this kind of shocked me since my ratio is more like 1:3 or 1:4.

Possibly this is related to my tendency to not edit fics hugely but to try to write them well first time, since once I've done something I don't generally then find it easy to 'hear' it in a different way? I don't know. I'm intrigued because I kind of want to know if my podfics are suffering because of it, if there's something I need to be doing better.

Those of you who record podfic, a couple of questions:

What's your finished podfic: recording/editing time ratio, roughly?

How many times are you likely to re-record a podfic/sections of a podfic? Is this due to mistakes or trying out different expression etc?

What takes up the most editing time?

Any answers would be hugely appreciated, thanks!

(Maybe I should make a poll...)

Comments

[thingswithwings]

omg, 1:20? No, for me it's more like 1:3 - finished length 20 minutes, original recorded length 1 hour, say. But that's just recording time - then I'd say that it takes me twice the length of the original recording to edit it. So, in that example, another two hours. One hour to record, two hours to edit, twenty minute finished podfic. But that's still nowhere near 1:20.

I'll re-record sections of the podfic up to ten times if it's a really difficult bit and I want lots of options - like, a character screaming at someone, or a pivotal moment in the story, or whatever. Sometimes mistakes, sometimes different expressions. But a lot of the time I'll just do it twice, or once.

The most editing time is taken up, for me, by parsing out those sections where I've done the same bit over and over trying for a good take; it takes time to figure out how many there are, which bits of which attempts I like, where the good bits are in the waveform, and all that. Sometimes I get really picky and want the first half of the sentence from take two and the second half of the sentence from take four, or whatever.

[anatsuno]

3 hours for 20mn is not 1:20 but it's already 1:9, which is already a lot! :)