• Adobe Premiere Pro

  raising the vices while lowering background noise

  Posted by Keith Vickers on May 15, 2017 at 11:31 am

  Hi guys, I have a question:

  I have a clip on my timeline. There are two people having a conversation but there is also a conversation at a lower level in the background at times. How would members here go about boosting the main conversation whilst lowering or removing the background conversation? It is very distracting and ruins the scene.

  Keith

  Peter Groom replied 9 years ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Jon Doughtie

  May 15, 2017 at 1:07 pm

  I would experiment with capturing a noise print in Audition and using the noise reduction process, then see if I could manually clean up a little bit more from that manually. With background dialog, this may not work, depending on the clip, though.

  My second trip around I would try simply keyframing gaps in the primary dialog to reduce the presence of the background.

  Without hearing the clips, these are only guesses as to how to approach it. The more presence the background dialog has, the more of a challenge this will be.

  I am sure others will chime in with some great (and better) ideas as well.

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  Chris Wright

  May 15, 2017 at 3:44 pm

  I agree. You can also try other methods like noise gate(if crowd is quieter) or even izotrope rx6 with its new advanced voice separator.
  as with all audio effects, start them with minimum settings in multiple passes. once you hear distortion, just undo the last apply.
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  Keith Vickers

  May 16, 2017 at 11:48 am

  Thank you very much for your response. I will certainly try this out.
  Thanks again.
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  Keith Vickers

  May 16, 2017 at 11:49 am

  Thanks very much for the response I will have a look at izotrope.
  Thanks again Guys.
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  Peter Groom

  May 17, 2017 at 10:46 am

  You dont say what your micing was.
  If the main dialogue you want is on 1 track and the other annoying dialogue is on the other, then its an easy fix on the faders.
  If its all mixed then you are in big trouble, and whoever made the recording needs to explain their actions.
  Izotope is a great tool but I dont think its going to help you , let alone are you going to want to buy it!
  Peter

  Post Production Dubbing Mixer

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