Editing to Increasing the Pace of an Episode

Some podcast episodes feel painfully slow, drawn out, and energy-less because one or more participants is speaking at a very slow pace. As an editor you can help remedy this by editing the audio a bit "tighter" than usual to increase the perceived speed of the episode.

As an editor, here are some things you can do to increase the pace of an episode:
Shorten long spaces (between question and answer, between an answer and the next question, while someone is silently struggling to find the right words, etc.)
Umms and stutters (the usual)
Repeated sentences (usually short sentences like, “Yes, I truly believe that. Yes, I truly believe that.”)
Removing an entire question and answer (usually when the guest’s answer was essentially the same as their answer to another question)

NOTE: You can only fix so much in post-production. The “performances” of the hosts and guests will set the pace. If a guest or host is dreadfully boring and slow you won’t be able to completely fix that! Hosts can learn to be more energetic and succinct, etc., but unfortunately guests will be what they are and there’s no changing that.

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