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Removing Clicking Noise
So I shot a short indy film last winter which is currently in post production. The movie is just about done except I am stuck on one scene that has an annoying clicking sound throughout it. I’m pretty sure the noise came from the mic cable hitting up against the boom mic. I wish I could refilm but I can’t since the scene was shot in the winter with snow. I was wondering if there is any sort of audio filter that could be used to remove or dull this sound in final cut (or even any other program). Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks for the help
Spencer Davis,
Cinematographer
Rubber Ducky Studios, LLC -
2 Replies
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My first suggestion is to try fixing it in Final Cut. If you can work on each click individually, it can probably be done by zooming way in on the waveform in the Viewer and setting keyframes to adjust the volume. The keyframes can be set to sub-frame accuracy so that very little of the surrounding sound is affected. The same technique is often used for P-pops, lip smacks, etc. If the click happens to be on top of another more important sound the fix might be worse than the click.
If that’s impractical because it would take you more than a few months of tedious work, the next solution is Soundtrack Pro. It does indeed have filters for clicks and pops. I believe you “analyze” the file first and then you “fix” the problems–in other words, you tell the program to look for clicks, it finds what it considers to be clicks, and then you tell it to go ahead and fix them. Make sure you always leave yourself a way back in case the fix isn’t what you want.
Others may suggest other audio cleaning programs such as Bias SoundSoap. All of these will basically do what you could do one click at a time with keyframes but they will automate the process.
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Great, thanks for the help. I’ll mess around with it a little more and hopefully that will take care of it. Thanks again
– Spencer
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