Several tracks, two languages

I record with OBS, and OBS gives me two audio tracks: my mic on one, the game or the desktop on the other. Most editors make that your problem the moment you import. Splicer, by PITO MD, keeps every track, lets you cut from whichever one is talking, and mixes them down when you export. It also hears English and Spanish in the same file, because I switch mid-sentence and I’m not going to stop.

This guide takes a two-track recording from open to the export sheet, with sync never once on your mind.

Open the recording

Drop the file on the desk, press Ctrl+O, or run splicer open <file> (Cmd+O on a Mac).

Every audio track in the file comes in. There is nothing to merge first: an OBS recording with a mic track and a desktop track opens with both, and the filmstrip and the transcript start at once.

Pick a track

Each track has a level knob in the desk footer. Click a knob and the desk shows only that track’s words, so you can read the mic alone, or the desktop alone, without the other one talking over it. t does the same from the keyboard, stepping through the tracks one by one and back to all of them. Click the knob again, or step t round, and every track’s words show again.

Cut from any track

Cut from any track’s words. drops the clip and keeps it, exactly as on a one-track file. A sentence you found on the mic track and one you found on the desktop track are both fair game. Silences belong to the whole recording, not to one track: a silence is where no track has speech.

Every edit applies to the video and to all the tracks at once, in sync. Drop a clip you found on the mic and it leaves the desktop track too. Keep one and both come along. Trim, move, undo: the same. You never line anything up by hand, and the tracks never drift apart, because there is nothing to drift. One cut, every track.

Set the levels

The knobs are your mix. Scroll on a knob to raise or lower its track, or press + and -, which act on the track you picked, or on track 1 when none is picked. Bring the game down until my voice wins, or the other way around if the game is the point.

When you export, Splicer mixes every track down into one, each at the level you set. The export carries one audio track, so set the mix on the desk before you press export, not in some other app after.

Two languages

Splicer hears English and Spanish, and it catches a switch mid-recording. When I slip into Spanish for a word that has no good English, it keeps up instead of writing nonsense until I switch back.

On the desk, each clip’s row on the rail wears a small US or Spanish flag, and the terminal workspace tags each run of lines EN or ES, so you can see where you changed language and cut around it, or keep the switch because it was funny. A file in one language shows neither.

Those are the two languages I use every day. Splicer hears those two.

Next comes the export sheet, where the tracks become one and the cut becomes a file.