BTS: How I upload a story to Patreon collections

Sorry this one is getting posted a bit late today (in the afternoon rather than the morning for me). I managed to pick up a head cold somewhere and so took a couple of sick days. I’m still sick, but I can think a bit better today and my eyes aren’t watering too badly so I can wear my glasses and see. 🙂 And that meant I could get this video sorted out and posted so I could share it here. (Thankfully, I had recorded this before I got sick!)

Here’s what it’s about:

In this What’s Up Wednesday installment, I’m showing you the process I use to upload a book to the Collections section of my Patreon page.

AND…

In the process of getting this video ready to share, I learned a new editing skill. (yay!) You’ll hear me apologize for background sounds that I knew my mic was going to pick up in the background. And did it ever pick them up. (I need a better mic)

I thought that this video was going to be a lost cause. That I was going to have to just scrap it and start over. But then, I searched YouTube for how to remove background noises in videos, and while I did not find one that told me to use the software I had, the steps were the same. Here’s what I did:

  1. I opened the video in Clipchamp and detached the audio.
  2. I downloaded the audio from there and then, uploaded it to the voice isolator on Elevenlabs (that’s the software I use to create my audiobooks).
  3. I clicked the isolate button. Waited. And then downloaded the new file.
  4. Then, I just uploaded the new audio file to Clipchamp and replaced the old audio with one that didn’t have the annoying humming and all that in the background.

This is an exciting new skill for me since I don’t have a door on my “office” and my mic is not super great, so there are frequent sounds going on around me and being picked up by the mic. So, this is one step towards better videos (or so I hope.) 🙂

Anyway… I hope you enjoy this look behind the scenes at one task from my author life.

Enjoy!

Leenie

This video is long — just over 27 minutes! There are links to various portions (chapters) of the video in the description on YouTube if you want timestamps to jump between.


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Leenie Brown

Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).

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