How to Correct Audio Pops in Premiere?

[Steve Brame]

One of the beautiful things about the CC version is the ability to ’roundtrip’ media between the different tools. No sure of why you would want to restrict yourself to only using one tool. If you have Premiere, you have Audition. I’ve just done a quick search on Google and located many tutorials on removing ‘plosives’ with Premiere. They all begin with…”Open the audio in Audition.”

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[Lauri Rankin]

Hi Steve. Thanks for your feedback but I my Creative Cloud subscription is limited to Premiere Pro CC. I do not possess a license or subscription for Audition so I’m seeking an alternative, assuming there’s a fix in the various Audio tools.

[Steve Brame]

OK. Well, in Audition the recommended(by Adobe) method is to use the FFT Filter, and select the Kill the Mic Rumble preset, which sort of works, but misses quite often, so I usually just enlarge the waveform and zoom into it until the pops stick out like sore thumbs, then reduce them manually.

In Premiere, it’s difficult to zoom in enough to see the pops clearly., but first you should de-select “Rectified Waveforms” in the Timeline Settings menu, then enlarge and zoom into your waveform. If you can get zoomed in enough, the pops should be very visually evident. Unfortunately, using this method in Premiere involves keyframing the audio to drop the level of the plosive.

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[Ken Zukin]

Hey Steve,

Great Audition tips — I’m dealing with an audio issue myself — fan noise bleeding thru some on-camera audio — would you pls. suggest an Audition workflow for me??

thx.

[Steve Brame]

I would suggest this video from Adobe’s Colin Smith on Noise Reduction. Though the version of Audition in the video is CS5.5, the technique hasn’t changed.

https://tv.adobe.com/watch/no-stupid-questions-with-colin-smith/introduction-to-noise-reduction-in-audition-cs55/

But basically, you select a representative section of the noise by itself, then use the Noise Reduction process to remove that noise. This works extremely well with constant noises, such as fans and A/C vents. CC also has the Sound Remover which IMO works better on short, more transient sounds.

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[Jonathan Jones]

One method I’ve found that works pretty well for removing plosives is to slice the pop itself to isolate it, throw on an EQ, and drag the low cut until it removes the plosive entirely. Sometimes you have to remove half of your frequency spectrum, so yes, your audio is “thin” for a split second, but it’s so quick it’s hardly noticeable. Definitely better than having pops in your audio though.

If you have a lot of pops, just scrub through and slice each pop, move each one down one track below as you go, then set your EQ on one, and finally select the rest of your pops in that track and copy and paste. Clear as mud?