Making Edits

Today’s tasks started with a fun one — editing together the open and close to our radio broadcasts for Spring Training games (which are called billboards.) Now, editing might not be the definition of fun for everyone, but I enjoy it!

To do this, I used Adobe Audition to combine the voice over introducing and closing out our broadcasts, a music track, and several highlights from games from last season.

First thing I had to do was decide which highlights I wanted to use for this. A couple of them I already knew off the top of my head because they were amazing plays that I still remember happening from when I first watched them. Honestly, probably the toughest part was narrowing it down and deciding which ones to include because there were so many good options. It was also pretty fun getting to go back through last year’s games and listen to all the highs from the season. It was like getting to relive the wins all over again.

Once I chose all the highlights, I then pieced them together with the voice over, intertwining the two together. The open and close both alternate back and forth between the voice over and highlights. And the entire time there’s music playing underneath it in the background. (And I feel like I’d be doing everyone a disservice if I didn’t mention the song that I used — Instant Replay by Dan Hartman. I don’t know why I’ve been deprived of this song my entire 21 years of existence — not even joking haha. It came out in 1978 and you can definitely tell that when you hear it, but I promise it’s still an absolute jam. Please go listen to it.)

Anyway, once everything was all laid out in the right spots, I then had to make sure the audio levels all sounded good. So I went through and fixed that up a little bit, primarily raising the levels of the radio calls that were in the highlights.

After that was all finished, I was done with editing it all together. It was definitely fun to have the chance to be creative and play around in Audition to create my own billboards that will be used during our game broadcasts!