removing audio defect

[T. Payton]

That is gonna be hard to isolate. Basically you need to find the frequencies of the finger snap and pull them down as much as you can without harming the dialog.

You can find the frequencies using the Channel EQ and “Analyze” button, or just guess and notch out the frequencies with that EQ.

If you wanna upload a sample here I’ll give it a shot and report backs with the settings.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Kyle Bass]

You could also use something like iZotope RX, which allows you to spectrally repair the audio instead of notching out entire frequencies. Works quite well, but it’s not included with FCP X and it’s not free.

[Philip Fass]

Here’s an exported sample:

https://www.legacyvideoportraits.com/htunsample.mov

You’ll hear the noise over the work “back.”

Thanks!

[Bret Williams]

It’s pretty clearly AFTER he says “back” and it’s so short. Just delete it and fill that spot with a frame or two of the audio before or after it. Would be the first thing I’d try.

[Philip Fass]

I’ll give it a shot. Will need a different approach if there are others that are right on top of the dialog. I suppose for those I could try to find a noiseless example of the same word and replace the bad one.

[T. Payton]

Ouch. That is a full spectrum snap. You can’t isolate frequencies.

My first thought was Envloper, it works based on dynamics alone and lets you reshape the volume of a sounds. It looks like it reduces it on the waveform but you can still hear it as clear as day:

Here is before:

And after:

(again it looks good, but the snap has some reflection and room noise. That is a weird snap I tell you)

Here is the enveloper version:

Click removal – enveloper

So I think you are best to just remove it and add some room noise. Something like this:

Sounds just dandy:

Click removal – enveloper

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

OOps. Posted the wrong video for the volume notch. Here is the correct one.

Video Fix – Volume Notch

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Bret Williams]

Exactly what I had to do in my first X project and the fact that I could edit at the sample level was great. We had a lot of slamming doors in interviews (shot in lobby) and when they were between words I just did what you did. When they were on words, I was lucky enough to have other takes with the same word and in flexion. X made it easy to slip it into position. Editing at the frame level in 7 was kinda hit and miss for this stuff.

[Jari Innanen]

Here’s my tip for cleaning audio in FCPX:
https://youtu.be/SRS7yCqqDOI

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