Insert Audio into Your Edit

Two kinds of import

An ad read, a pickup or a sting arrives as its own file, and the question is whether it interrupts the speech or plays underneath it. The + in the title bar holds both answers.

Import Audio brings the clip in as a card you drop between two words in the transcript. Import Background Music lays it on the timeline at the playhead, alongside the speech. That one has its own page: Background Music & Separation.

Drop it between two words

Click +, choose Import Audio, pick your file. The clip arrives as a card. Take the grip on its left and drag it to the gap you want.

A marker shows where it will land: upright in the gap between two words, flat across the column between two speaker turns. Drop in front of a paragraph's first word and the clip goes between paragraphs. Drop mid-paragraph and the paragraph splits there, so aim at the gap you actually want rather than the nearest word.

Importing counts as an edit, so a locked podcast asks you to press Start Editing first.

Audition it, then set its level

The card's width is the clip's own timeline. Click a third of the way along and the playhead moves a third of the way in; drag sideways to scrub. Drag vertically and you pick the card up instead.

Sitting louder or quieter than the speech around it? Hover the card, open its menu, choose Adjust and drag the slider: down towards silence, up towards a boost. You hear the level move under your hand, and a notch marks the clip exactly as you imported it.

Delete is in the same menu, behind a confirmation, and undo brings the clip back if you change your mind.

Clips belong to a cut

Each cut carries its own clips. Import, move or delete one while Original is open and you land in a new cut, with Original left as recorded. Switch cuts and that cut's clips are there; duplicate one and its clips come too. See Compositions & Versions.