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Bad wind noise
I know this is an audio matter, and I will post this in the Audio Professionals forum as well. I’m posting it here only because I’m working in Avid and not using a specific audio editing program because my company is too cheap to buy one. But I have an interview with very bad wind noise. I did use a wind screen on the mic and rode the levels during recording but it still got picked up. Is there anything in the Avid Audio Suite that can help me fix this? I’m using Media Composer v4.0.3.
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You know there isn’t. ADR, reshoot or go with it.
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When it comes to audio keep in mind: there are no magic fixes. What you record in the field is what’s married to the tracks, and contrary to what you see in hokey movies, there’s no feature that will just allow you to pull just one type of sound out of a single track of audio. There’s also equalizing out certain frequencies – but you’re almost always going to lose part of the signal you want to keep in so doing.
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The main reason I ask is I know I can do minor fixes and make it somewhat better when using Apple Soundtrack, but I don’t have access to that anymore. I don’t know much about the audio suite in Avid so I was curious if there was anything I should use. I’ve played with the plugins, but nothing made it even tolerable.
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well, parametric EQs do just that… ditch one sound. Wind noise is not just one sound though. It’s a redo or meshed with music and sound effects.
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As stated above there`s no fix for a bad recorded audio. As grinner mentioned you could try to use the EQ to reduce some of the rather large wind noises. Usually wind noise is rahter heavy in the extreme lower spectrum of sound so try to use the eq to cut the frequencies below 50 Hz. That could reduce some of the sounds but will not make it go away.
Hans
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I know there isn’t a magic fix button for a problem like this. I’m just not that familiar with Avid’s audio suite and didn’t know if there was something within it that could help me other than the EQ. I tried that, didn’t work well. Unfortunately the wind was only bad when my talent spoke, go figure, haha.
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Next time: In high winds a wind screen will not cut it as you have found out. Try using a non-lubricated condom instead or as well for esthetic reasons. You will lose some top end but this can be corrected using EQ.
This time: I have never tried it but I have heard Audacity’s Noise Filter may help. It is an open source app.
https://www.videohelp.com/tools/Audacity
Wind noise is unresolvable in my experience, however with new software there may be hope.
DD
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