[Joybringer]

Thanks, John, for your interest and help. I keep it simple. I have a few audios of varying length and merely want to delete the long silences or where a phone call came in the middle of the interview. I am also deleting out stutters or words repeated. I am only listening, highlighting, deleting.

Then I have also tried to speed it up by dragging and dropping what I want to keep thinking it might be faster. It still is taking just as long.

I am really stumped by this and frustrated because time is money which is flying in the wind right now. Thanks!

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[Joybringer]

Thanks for the encouragement, but I don’t understand how most people are doing one hour of editing in two hours when I can’t get through a few minutes. It just doesn’t make sense to take this long. It is just an interview which I know well.

[Joybringer]

I am undoubtedly way out of my league here, but I am searching for this answer, “Why is my audio editing taking so long?”
For example, all I am doing is either highlighting and deleting what I don’t want OR dragging and dropping what I do want.
I work at a good pace, but trying to put exact time into perspective, here is what I did today: for 2.5 hours I worked on the editing. I began at marker 1:02:22 on the original and at 34:03 on the one I am dragging and dropping to. When I quit, I was at 1:05:44 and 36:04 respectively. How can this even be possible? I would farm it out if I thought someone could do it for me at this point!
Any help will be quite hugely appreciated!