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What is Hindenburg PRO?

Hindenburg Journalist PRO is for the journalist and podcasters who wish to make more complicated or polished productions. The additional tools found in Journalist PRO will make your professional life as an audio producer more efficient.

What makes Hindenburg so special? It’s like having a sound engineer with you at all times.

Automated levels and EQ ensure broadcast quality segments. Clipboards, Skype recording and Publishing tool save you time and money.

Hindenburg Journalist PRO is designed for audio story tellers.

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My first segment

In this beginner tutorial you can follow all the step, from importing audio to the finished segment.
It’s all done in 11 min .. so buckle up : )

hello and welcome to this my first segment tutorial in this tutorial we're going to create a simple a and B segment with narration and interview Simone and Kip ski have been creating crazy sounds together since they were kids in the city of Utrecht well we started way back when we were like 11 year old kids years ago skateboarding and then when we got tired we would just spend hours let's begin by importing the audio you've been out recorded the interview you've loaded it into your computer and now you can import it directly into Hindenburg you can also drag and drop directly from your finder let's try to look at some of the basic navigation to keep a better overview of your material suming is a great tool you can zoom out and zoom in on the buttons up here or you can use your shortcuts your playhead indicates your current position in the audio it's possible to move your playhead to any point in the audio for playback with your mouse you can click anywhere in the top area of the track or at the bottom when your mouse is an i-beam you can relocate your playhead so now press the spacebar to play back your audio and you can press it again to stop yeah my name is Simon now we're going to set in and out Marcus this we need to do because you want to select a specific area we want to work on if you want to cut move or otherwise manipulate our old you these are the in and out markers you can use the shortcuts I for in to set an in marker yeah my name is Simon Simon like a month has find the end you drag you want to go out and set an out marker with 04 out now we have created a selection we can move the in and out markers after the fact by just dragging a marker itself a month you'd wreck we can now listen to our selection by holding shift and pressing spacebar yeah my name is Simon Simon like a month from Utrecht yeah my name is Simon now let's turn our attention to the clipboard the clipboard is a tool that we're going to be using all through this tutorial a clipboard is a place where we can store our sound bites could be interview music ambience whatever you can call the group's whatever you like now we're going to take the selection we just made and drag it into the clipboard for later use here we can give it a new name so we can always remember what it was in this case my name is and we could also play back the clip directly from the clipboard we can just highlight the clip and press spacebar yeah my name is Simon Simon I commands from Utrecht now let's try to make a few more clips this time we're going to be using some new tools cut and split well we started way back when we were like you live now while we're listening through the interview we find there's an R that will like to get rid of so we're now going to drag a selection you can see it's an i-beam and as long as it's an i-beam we can drag it at the top and the bottom of the track to create a selection or we can use I and O the selection here we can cut that out and the r is God well we've started way back when we were like if we listen further there's another problem he says we used to go skateboarding twice we just need the one so we're going to cut out where he says we but this time we're going to use split going to place our play head and a split the audio so it's split into two let's locate the other we split that highlight the region in between and cut that out now let's listen to the final result when we were like 11 year old kids years ago skateboarding and then when we got tired we would just and that sounds fine now let's listen through to where we want to exit the clip right here and we'll keep the breath in there to move Clips around we can highlight it and as long as our cursor is in the middle of the region like this and an arrow we can hold down the mouse drag and move like this fades are something that we use all the time to create transitions if I highlight this region now we get some fade handles here in the corners actually there's a handled in the middle which you can't see which is trim and a feed and let the bottom if we just focus on the top one we can drag that and create a fade at the beginning here we would like to do a fade in as well well we start at first we need to split the audio here and use this room tone fade in so we have a beginning of this sound bite now we can take all the clips in this edit here and select them and drag them into our clipboard here we can give it a new name and just run through your interview like this so we have all these sound bites that we need for the segment and now we're ready to record let's choose an input arm the track and now we can see we have input on our track all we need to do now is just press the record button and we begin recording continue running through your recordings like this but if you do make a mistake whilst you're recording you can do a punch in just stop your recording go back a bit playback from there and when you're ready press the record button again and then you'll punch in now we can take all the voices that we just made add them to our clipboard we're basically ready to begin montage we have all our clips in the clipboard but maybe you still have some leftover audio lying around on your workspace now there's just not tidy so let's tidy up a bit selects everything and just delete it or press clear now it's all nice and tidy and we have begin laying up our sound bites let's put this in at the very beginning of the workspace my name is Simon Simon I commands from C Mon and get key let's stop roughly where we want our first voice are to come in here we go the levels are automatically set you can just add a failing shift key Simone and caps key have been creating crazy sounds together since they were kids in the city of ultra had a fade at the other end as well a signal next clip direct we used to go skateboarding this time we would like to add a fade by using a shortcut I think the way to do that is we want to place our playhead where the fade begins and just press f there you go we've made a fade let's do the same here in Reverse replace up playhead where you want the Fate to end and press f and it creates the fade forest examples sword over that simulacrum at the Simone of one more time place the playhead press F as your fate continue doing these two you've used all the clips in the clipboard and now you're ready to export here you can choose the file format that you would like to use and over here you even have some more options the most interesting one being without pneus you can choose the overall loudness normalisation for your export for podcasting minus 16 but for broadcast radio minus 23 or minus 24 you can also save your favorite settings now press ok this case i'm using minus 16 give it a name save your segment a few seconds later you're all done and congratulations you've just finished your first segment

Workspace 2

Clipboard, Favorites, Markers, Chapters, Call Recorder and more...

Basic Editing

Split, move, delete, cut, copy, insert, paste, manual auto level and fade

Clipboard

Learn how to use the "clipboard" to optimize your radio production workflow.

Montage

Learn how to do simple A/B montaging and music mixing.

Voice Profiler

The Voice Profiler in Hindenburg Journalist ensures consistent sound (eq)

Hangouts, Facetime or other

This tutorial will show you how you can record from Google Hangout, Skype, or other AoiP applications.

If you are on Apple, then you need to install Soundflowerbed.

For Windows, just use the built-in “record from communication device”

Insert special

When editing Phone interview you might need to edit overlapping audio.

The overlapping audio needs to be moved and the subsequent audio needs to be in sync.

“Insert special” takes care of this situation.

Effects

Equalizer, compressor, loudness meter and BBC meter and Third Party Plugins

Noise reduction

Noise reduction is an effect that can help reduce noise in your audio recordings.

New Media

Add Chapters, images and Links for enhanced podcasts.

Vari-speed

Play audio back at increased or decreased speed.

1-Click Publish

Publish a radio piece to multiple destinations. FTP, Podcast, Soundcloud, PRX...

Record from internet

Learn to record audio coming from a browser or other application on Windows and Apple.

Regions

Understand the basics of a region. Move, trim and gain a region.

Snap Regions

Snap the regions to point of interest; playhead, markers, end lines..

Select a region or regions and hold shift + cmd + arrow keys (Apple) or shift + ctrl + arrow keys (windows)

Region Cut

The Cut edit will only affect the region - not the entire track.

When working on larger projects it can be tricky to edit without messing up you sync. Region Cut is one way of dealing with that. See how it works ...

Mute Region

Muting a region can be useful for trying out new versions of your mix, without deleting anything

Shuffle Trim (Slip Edit)

Shuffle trim a a editing feature where you can move the edit point of an edit without breaking the edit apart. This is useful if you need to finetune the audio edit.

Slide audio inside region

Sliding the audio inside the region can be used for changing the offset time of the audio inside a fixed region length.

Fades 1

Create fades and cross fades. Adjust fades on two regions at once.

Fades 2

Create fades and cross fades with shortcuts. Also make fades over multiple regions.

Fades 3 - duck

Learn how to “Duck” the music underneath the narration. Adjust “Duck” in real time.

Fades 4 - soundbed

Create a soundbed with the “Slope” function.

in & out markers

Create a selection. Use in & out markers. Remove a selection.

Marquee selection

Use the Marquee tool to select regions in Hindenburg.

Hold shift and drag a Marquee over the desired regions.

Select to end

Select all regions on all tracks that follow the current region.

In this tutorial you will see three ways of highlighting all following regions.

Gain

Set the gain of a region using: mouse, keyboard or automation.

Low levels!

Sometimes a recording is to low. Learn how to gain the levels so the auto level again works.

Export selection

Export (bounce) only parts of your segment

"Duck" over multiple regions

Learn how to create a “duck” fade over multiple region

Session version

Learn how to create versions of a session without creating new session folders and copying audio.

Import clipboard

Import a clipboard from other sessions

Add group to clipboard

Add new groups to the clipboard. Delete, rename or rearrange groups in the clipboard.

Add sequence to clipboard

Add a sequence of regions or clips to the clipboard. This could be your recorded voice tracks for a radio show or podcast. Select all takes and place them in sequence in the clipboard.

Export from Clipboard

Export clips directly from the clipboard.

This could be soundbites from a news interview or more elaborately edited clips.

Right-Click on and choose “Export selection”.

Merge sessions

When collaborating it is possible to merge sessions to create a master session.

Rehearse clip

Rehearse the edit before doing the edit. Playback and hear the edit before you cut out the selection.

Play selection

Playback the selected selection. The selection will loop back. Adjust the in and out markers.

Faster Than Live

Live to Tape recording faster than live.

Record News with narration and clips faster than real-time. Get a Pre & Post roll of the clip and automatically continue recording. Even the levels for the clips are set while recording.

Linked Tracks

Link track together for easier editing with tracks that need to be in sync.

Linked Tracks & Edit

Links tracks together when editing on tracks that need to be in sync.

Edit, Trim, Fade across all the linked tracks.

Arm linked Tracks

When recording to Linked tracks the tracks, tracks will be Armed simultaneously.

This requires that there are individual inputs for each track. Channel 1, Channel 2 …

To unselect at track from being armed, hold Shift and click the Arm button.

Multitrack recording

Record on multiple tracks.
Plugin any USB microphone or audio card and begin recording on as many tracks as you like.

Recording from Skype (Apple)

Skype version 8 does not support the old Skype API. Therefor the CallRecorder in Hindenburg no longer works.
Fortunately there is alternative ways of recording Skype. This Tutorial will show you how.

The same method can be used for FaceTime, Google Hangout, or any other web based AioP cha

Recording from Skype (Windows)

Skype version 8 does not support the old Skype API. Therefor the CallRecorder in Hindenburg no longer works.
Fortunately there is alternative ways of recording Skype. This Tutorial will show you how.

The same method can be used for FaceTime, Google Hangout, or any other web based AioP chat.

Loudness export

Export can have a target level. -23, -24 or -16 LUFS. The exported file will be annalysed and have the overall LUFS level set to the desired target level. Learn how to set up the export levels in this tutorial.

Loudness publish

Publish to different destinations with different LUFS levels.
Set one publish target for -24 LUFS and another for -16 depending on if the segment is being used for Radio Broadcast or Podcast.

Publish to Soundcloud

Use the Publish feature to upload audio directly to Soundcloud.

See how to set up your Soundcloud account within Hindenburg.

It’s possible to have the audio loudness normalised at -16 LUFS.

Publish to Libsyn

Use the Publish feature to upload audio directly to Libsyn

See how to set up your Libsyn account within Hindenburg.

It’s possible to have the audio loudness normalised at -16 LUFS.

Mastertrack

How to add a master-track and apply volume changes and effects to the entire session.

Help! Missing audio

Have you ever experienced opening a Hindenburg session just to find your audio is missing? Well, hopefully not. But if you have, here is a tutorial to show you how to avoid that in the future.

Making my voice sound good!

Have you ever wondered what an equaliser did and what a compressor was.

Have you ever had some background noise that you could not get rid of?

In this tutorial we take a quick look at how you can improve the sound of your home recording.

See a few goods trick for things to do … and not to do, when voice tracking.

Recording a voice track

Arm a Track ready for Recording. Record a voice track and correct mistakes.
See how you prepare for recording - do the recording and correct mistakes - and then export your final work.

Keyset management

Learn how you send out licenses from your keyset.

Add the wording to the mail that will be sent out and manage the users.

Administer your keyset.

Opus & FLAC

The best audio compression algorithm right now is OPUS. Hindenburg now comes with OPUS. FLAC is an added bonus to adding OPUS.

Please do try and export a session in OPUS and a low Bitrate and hear how amazing it really is.

Relink Audio

Blank regions … you might have experienced that you opened a session and it had blank regions - regions with no waveforms or sound in them. This tutorial will show you how to relink the session and the audio.

Lesson 1 - Overview

Get at “quick” overview of the layout and possibilities you have with Hindenburg.

Lesson 2 - Basic Edit

In this lesson we will cover some of the editing basics. How do the selection tools work? What is a Region? How do I create a fade? What is the difference between cut and clear?

Lesson 3 - Record

In this lesson you will learn how to Make a track ready for recording. How to record your Voice Track and how to correct mistakes in your narration.

Lesson 4 - Volume

In this lesson you will learn how to make adjustments to the volume. If you master the three basic tools; Fade, Duck and Sounded .. then you can begin to create great sound.

Lesson 5 - Organise

In this lesson you will learn how to organise your audio material. Some of the things we will look at i the Clipboard, how to rename clips and set markers.

Lesson 6 - Assemble

In this lesson you will learn how to assemble an audio segment. We will use the clipboard and see a number of different tricks and tips - that will speed up your work.

Lesson 7 - Advanced editing

In this lesson we will take a closer look at multitrack editing. Edit on all tracks, manipulate music and learn a few new features and shortcuts.

Lesson 9 - Export, Publish & Save

Export, Publish and Save our work. We go into some details about file formats, compression, Loudness and how the Hindenburg Session format works. Some features are only present Hindenburg PRO

Cue Points - Feature

Mark points of interest in the Audio. The Cue Point will be locked tot he audio and not the timeline. The Cue Points will follow your edits.

Cue Points

Mark points of interest in the Audio. The Cue Point will be locked tot he audio and not the timeline. The Cue Points will follow your edits.

Time Stretch

Open ProTools Projects

Top & Tail

Trim the “Top & Tail” of the region.

Use Q & W to trim

Hold Shift to only apply to region.

Magic Levels

Magic Levels is a feature that can help you with a number of level-setting challenges. Select the problematic regions and press a single button. And it’s all non-destructive, so you can always tweak the results.

Adaptive Levels

Auto Mix

De-Bleed

Auto Duck

Copy & Duck

You can now copy a selection with a Volume Duck on it and apply it to another selection with Shift + D

Using Shift +D without copying a selection will apply a default Duck to the selection.