Editing out a loud bang in interview audio

[Kevin Monahan]

I don’t think it’s possible.

Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

[Del Holford]

While Kevin may be correct, you might try posting in Audio Professionals forum as they have more knowledge of filters and plug-ins that might help.

Del
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Charlotte Public Television
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[Ron Craig]

Do you have a transcript of the interview? Perhaps you can find a point at which the interviewee said the same word that was interrupted by the bang and then just replace the audio of that word. Hopefully you can find more than one instance of that word being spoken at another time because intonation, volume, etc. will determine whether other iterations of the same word will sound good enough as a replacement. But I have done this several times successfully..

[Chris Poisson]

Since the bang is likely short, it may be possible to cut the same word(s) from somewhere else in the interview and patch it in. I have done this successfully a couple of times for other audio faults, but it should work with a bang, if you have them saying the same thing that is.

Good luck!

Have a wonderful day.

[David Roth weiss]

I always find that supering a large caliber bullet hole to the forehead of the interviewee really helps to sell the sound and what was once an unfortunate mistake can now become a chance to heighten the impact of that dull talking head. Saves on b-roll too…

On a more serious note, Soundtrack Pro, which hardly any of us actually use of course, has a tool for this. I have seen it demoed, but I haven’t used it. Essentially, it analizes the track and produces a color waveform, different from the standard waveform, that enables you to lasso just the specific frequencies of the offending sound and then allowing you remove them. It looked to be quite amazing. Check it out in the manual and ask about it over on the STP Forum.

David

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[Les Kaye]

To ditto David (sorry for the alliteration)… Apple demoed this exact scenario last week at the FCP World Tour. I tried it at home later that night as a test, and it looks like it actually does work.

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[Nathan Golon]

Thanks everyone.

[Arnie Schlissel]

[David Roth Weiss] “I always find that supering a large caliber bullet hole to the forehead of the interviewee really helps to sell the sound and what was once an unfortunate mistake can now become a chance to heighten the impact of that dull talking head. Saves on b-roll too…”

But to really sell it, you should then use Motion’s particle system to spray brains out the back of the interviewee’s head!

Seriously, David, I’m glad I didn’t have a beverage in my hand while reading this, or I would have become a particle system!

Arnie
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