Audiate vs. GarageBand

It is perfect for editing all the unwanted words from your recording. It does this within a minute or two. You can also specify what you want to remove or change. Then it makes the changes seamlessly to Camtasia with the edited audio and synched video to match. All within minutes. It saves me so much time and it's fantastic at it.

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Honestly, switching to Garage Band from Audacity for my podcast was a game-changer in the editing. I can do it so much faster with the tools that are available in editing--especially when you are dealing with more than one track to edit. I also think Garage Band could be fantastic for recording a whole album initially before sending it to be mastered elsewhere. And I think Garage Band could be perfect for sync music licensing because it's still relatively easy to use!

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• Identifies 'em, ahs, am' phrases
• Provides ability to edit very quickly
• Automated edits/cuts and synchs to Camtasia with ease

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• It has a quite simple UI that has a low learning curve for beginners.
• It's impressively feature-rich for a free application.
• The help documentation and user community are very helpful if/when you get stuck with something.

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• More options around effects and properties
• More options for editing
• Ability to change a word and use your own voice

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• Can't save the preferences for the tracks such as turning off reverb etc.
• Project files are large, a 30-minute podcast episode with only 4 tracks is typically around 1 GB
• Auto feature to silence guest not talking
• Optimize for podcasters (I use the old version 6 as new versions hasn't had podcast options)

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GarageBand has just a few clunky settings--otherwise, it is a very user-friendly program with lots of functionality. Beginners can get started pretty quickly with the program, while more advanced users can dig around and find plenty of other tools to use to tweak things within a recording or editing session

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I have never tried it. It's just simple, and you should be able to navigate most of it via self-exploration and Apple Help.

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Audiate, like I have said before, is very easy to use and its ability to pick out unwanted phrases, edit and synchronise with Camtasia within minutes is superb! It would just be great to be able to do a one-off purchase of a product rather than a subscription.

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Because GarageBand is included on macOS and iOS purchases, and we already use an Apple environment at our office, it was an easy decision to go with the 'free,' included program for our basic audio editing needs. We did also purchase Logic Pro X, since it is the 'big brother' to GarageBand, but our volunteers tend to use GarageBand first because of familiarity and ease-of-use

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• Reduces editing by hours
• Reductions in editing time saves $100s in cost
• Improves overall productivity as more time can be spent on video visualisations and improvements

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• It definitely has reduced costs since it's completely free.
• Having the mobile app also increases the efficiency in our workflow.
• We get great feedback on our videos and podcasts because of the audio.
• The lack of effects and pre-sets lets our audio quality down a little bit, but it's manageable.

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