Remove trafic noise

[John Rofrano]

> I don`t have the noise reduction plug in, but I guess I can fix this (or at least improve it) with some of the event fx in vegas?

Not very likely. I assume you want to remove the traffic and keep the dialog at the same time? Trying to do this with an EQ or other tool in Vegas is like trying to take the eggs back out of a cake once it’s baked. You are not going to get very far without some sort of tool that uses spectral analysis. You can try EQing out everything outside the vocal range but the traffic noise within the vocal range will still be there.

I would download the trial of iZotope RX and watch the tutorials for Denoiser and the Spectral Repair tool. If it works, you can decide if the price is worth saving your footage. You really don’t have any other options and don’t expect a one-click-fix. Even with RX it’s going to be major surgery because traffic noise is constantly changing unlike broadband noise from an air conditioner which is relatively constant. You’ll need to apply multiple noise prints to the footage with Denoiser and then manually edit what’s left with Spectral Repair.

I’ve removed things like someone dropping a chair in the background or a coffee make beeping in the background while someone is talking with iZotope RX. It is an amazing tool once you take the time to learn it.

~jr

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[Steve Rhoden]

Yeah…you are gonna definitely need a noise reduction plugin
(software)to get the results you want…And as john said, going
to need some indepth tweaking so to speak.

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[D. Eric franks]

“Trying to [remove traffic noise from an audio track] is like trying to take the eggs back out of a cake once it’s baked.” – John Rofrano

I am so using that quote. Too funny.

There is one other free option to try to fix this, however, but it’s not a fun one: ADR (“additional” dialog replacement). This means you’ll re-record the dialog in a quieter location while watching the playback and try to match it as precisely as possible. This is both (a) not as outrageous as it sounds and (b) way more outrageous than it sounds. What I mean is, (a) Hollywood does this all of the time. It’s been a standard practice since the dawn of movies with sound and isn’t outrageous at all. But (b), it’s also seriously, outrageously tedious and not at all easy to get it right (although matching waveforms in Vegas and a few percent time stretching/squashing here or there helps a lot).

I’ve had to do this on a couple of sentences at a time here or there and it can be done. Of course, you’ll need access to the actors to re-record. And you’ll also need some ambiance to drop in the background or it will immediately sound odd and artificial. But it is free and worth a try, especially if it’s only a few sentences of dialog. There are commercial products you can try as well that can semi-automate the process of matching the ADR to the original track.

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[Bob Peterson]

I recall using Vegas itself for ADR in a class taught by Jeff Fisher. The process I remember is that Vegas plays a bit of dialogue (we were using headphones), and a new take would be recorded on the time line. No third party products needed.