How to Create a Podcast Intro & Outtro for a Podcast

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in this video I'm going to show you step-by-step how to make an intro and an outro for your podcast or a YouTube channel or a video whatever you want to use it for but we're going to be focusing on the audio this is what that my intro is going to sound like it's a school theme because it's the income school podcast let's go ahead and play this let's make today the day you start the business that will change your life you'll learn how at income school welcome to income school income school is about taking your income into your own hands by creating a website that people will love launching a website building a following and earning a living online and now your host Jim Harmar and that's me all right then it just fades out so that's what the final result sounds like but I am going to just delete this work that I have done so that we can go step-by-step through how we do this process well the first thing you're going to need is the actual voiceover and for that I go to Fiverr and on Fiverr is a website we just pay five bucks and people will go out and do all kinds of things I searched for voiceover and you can listen to a hundred different voices here and pick the one that's best for you my general advice in picking a good voice-over artist is one make sure they have a high-quality set up you don't want to make it sound like you're in an echo e room you want it to make it sound like a good audio and then don't pick somebody with a weird accent if you're in the UK stick with the UK accent if you're in Australia stick with the Australian accent if you're in the US don't pick some kind of weird Southern drawl Australian UK whatever think about what you hear on TV in a commercial you usually don't hear where the weird accent usually here just a very neutral professional sounding voice and and that's probably for the best I sometimes you can get all excited about all the different things here and then you're introduced ends up sounding strange okay so first we're going to pick that and then we're going to go and find some music for that I go to audio jungle calm this is one of very very few websites that will allow you to use the music in a podcast intro if you read through the Terms of Use for a lot of different web of stock audio websites you can't use it as your intro music so find a song you like I've already chosen the song called high school and um that that's what I'm going to use for the podcast all right now I've already purchased this music and then the last thing is you want to buy any audio clips you want any sound effects now you can buy these from stock websites as well usually I just go find them for free on the web now you have to be really careful to make sure you have the artists permission to use the sound effect in a commercial podcast but actually there are quite a few websites that do stock audio for free even in a commercial project so I often don't pay for those off and go find it free but check the license agreement to make sure you're okay using it okay so I've purchased those three things and I have them in this folder so let's bring these into into Adobe Audition I'm going to go ahead and bring this into the intro and outro so we have the school bell sound we have the voiceover and then we oh I'm going to bring this then we have our music alright now we got those three and I'm going to drag them into Adobe Audition now you can do the exact same thing if you want to use a free program like audacity this is just what I'm used to using so let's listen to this and we got to clean up the audio a little bit hello entrepreneurs let's make today the day you start the business that will change your life you'll learn how at income school okay I didn't like the way how she said hello entrepreneurs so we're just gonna start like this make today the day you start the business that will change your life all right that sounds really raw just not very processed so let's come up into effects and we're just gonna do two things to it we're gonna go to filter and a cue graphic equalizer 30 bands lead vocal presence and clarity and you will see the difference here let's make today the day you start the business that will change your life you'll learn how at income school can you feel that it's just a little bit more crisp in the language now we're going to come and do effects and this one's going to make a much bigger difference here we're going to go to amp and compression multiband compressor and I love broadcast I think it sounds great let's hear the difference welcome to income school whoa see that makes a big difference in what it sounds like just sounds more full and and clear let's make today the day you start the business that will change your life you'll learn how at income school awesome I like it now I did listen I didn't so much love the way that she says act let's listen to that life you'll learn how at income school that income school I'm just going to bring this down a little bit let's try that so that's just less that will change your life you'll learn how at income school okay we've taken taking the edge off that a little bit okay now we have this and we're going to now go to file new multitrack session and you can do the same thing in Adobe Audition yarn nothing no nothing weird here so let's start out we'll bring our voiceover in let's make today the day you start the business that will change your life you'll learn how at income school okay then I want to stop this I'm just going to delete the rest and now we want a school bell in here and then we're going to bring in our song so let's hear what that sounds like at income school okay cool and then we're going to bring her voiceover in again so that she can finish her lines here this was the part we already got the intro and we'll scoot this over now let's hear you'll learn how at income school [Music] all right so now the music is drowning out this voice so we don't want it to go too long here maybe about here is we want this to start we're going to just click to make a dot and then we'll bring this down so that we can hear the voice over the music there's nothing more annoying than when you are listening to music and a voice and the music is overriding the voice you'll learn how at income school you welcome to income school the number one but okay I think this was just a little bit slow getting started here and we'll bring up the overall volume of that and I also wanted the school bell to hit just a second early at income school a little bit too soon all right better word income school welcome to income school the number one for launching a website building a following and earning a living online income school is about taking your income into your own hands by creating a website that people will love and now your host Jim Harmar that's me okay then I'm gonna do this and go to a fade out here great we're sounding good except listen to this welcome to income school the number one for logic whoops she forgot the word place the number one for launching a podcast so let's click into this clip and we're going to just fix what she says the number one for launching a website the okay so let's just change what she says welcome to income school the number one for lunch okay we're just going to cut out the number one and go to launching we're launching a web shooting the plus side blasting away all right here's where we want launching will cut out the word for [Music] welcome to income school luck all right now we see where she starts launching and we're just going to move this over launching a website building a following and earning a living online boom okay we're just gonna copy this and cut it out income school is about taking your income into your own hands by creating a website that people will love and now your hosts the people will love love and then we can just add right here bang well love launching a website building a following and earning a living online boom okay we did it do that okay now we're going to go back into our multitrack session and you'll see this updates welcome to income school income school is about taking your Inc perfect now we just move that to a spot where it makes sense I'm into you're an owl cut it off let's light that people will love launching a web site building a following and earning a living online and now your host Jim Harbor boom and then it just fades off just a tiny bit while I begin to start the podcast right there we did it we got an intro and now we're really gonna do the same thing with the outro we're just going to grab that voiceover and the sound effect in the music and just kind of put it in there fade it out wherever we need to I usually like the intro and outro to be pretty quick this is definitely the longest one that I've done before but I kind of like how it's coming together so that's how I make an intro and an outro for a podcast hope you enjoy it be sure to come to income school comm slash podcast setup go there because I have exactly what Mike to use exactly where to get your your music where to host your files how to set up your podcast I mean just a full tutorial in exactly all the gear that I use it can save you a ton of money and a lot of stress if you get it done right the first time thanks for joining me in this tutorial and we'll see you at income school