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Audio problem on tapes: how do I EQ in FCP/STP?
Hello again! Yet another newbie question for you pros and thanks in advance for reading this!
I’m editing my first project with Final Cut Studio and I have 13 Beta-SP camera originals (which look great) but the audio is recorded on every one of them PEAKED at -10. I’m editing them at uncompressed 10-bit via AJA Io LA, so the video looks outstanding.
I brought the tapes to two post houses and had an engineer in to my facility who also brought a second deck and everything consistently pointed to the same problem: the audio on the tapes are recorded way too low and buzzing (only when the actors talk) as well as tape noise exists throughout.
So, I have edited seven vignettes of 4 to 5 minutes a piece which consist mainly of two-person dialogs (mostly with split or “L” edits throughout) and I’ve equalized the audio levels throughout at 0 in the mixer window. To compensate for the low levels overall, I’ve pushed up the Master Audio control all the way to the maximum and am still playing back low!
At this point, I know that I can bring each audio clip into STP and run them through the “Normalize” filter in order to get a more robust audio level (which I know will also make the other noises more robust!), but that’s about as far as I know about FCS from the tutorials at this point.
Is there a way to run a “Normalize” filter from within FCP (I didn’t see one) to save the round trip and speed up the process from going one clip at a time? What type of filters can I then run either in FCP or STP to attempt to minimize or completely knock out the buzzing that occurs when the actors talk and the background noise?
I’m going to post this in both the FCP and STP forums since I’m not really sure which would be best for this situation!
Thanks again,
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Turn you master gain back to normal.
Add the Audio Filters > Apple > AUPeakLimiter and adjust the “Pre-gain” to any level you want.
This is the kind of “continuous” noise that a program like Bias “SoundSoap” can help remove.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/review_soundsoap.html
Bias has recently released “SoundSoap 2”
https://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundsoap/
SoundSoap was retailing for about $50 (up to $80 just before the new “2” release).
SoundSoap 2 is priced at about $100.NOTE: STP does have (as I recall) a similar digital noise reducer.
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