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Heather Disco
November 17, 2012 at 10:13 pm in reply to: Removing low hum audio on files in FCP 6 while preserving speech?

Sent. Hope that works!
Heather Disco
November 17, 2012 at 9:55 pm in reply to: Removing low hum audio on files in FCP 6 while preserving speech?

I added myxtrosequel@me.com to the list of authorized viewers of the file – it should email you with a link. I put all the bad audio parts / timings in the description and as I just learned, you can click on any of the times and it will jump the video to that part! Neat.

Okay, let me know if you need anything else. Also, enjoy the silly zombie film.
Heather Disco
November 17, 2012 at 9:44 pm in reply to: Removing low hum audio on files in FCP 6 while preserving speech?

Definitely still looking for answers so I hope you can get something out of this thread as well! I tried to follow some other forum posts with similar stuff but couldn’t find anyone who was having this exact kind of problem so decided to post my particular issue!
Heather Disco
November 17, 2012 at 9:41 pm in reply to: Removing low hum audio on files in FCP 6 while preserving speech?

Out of the 12 minute video, there are like ten little chunks of time where the audio is a bit of an issue, mostly because we shot on one camera so when we changed shooting angles to shoot the other part of the scene, the audio hum changed how it came through.

I can link you to the YouTube file to check out, I can make note in the description of all the spots that are an issue (though if you watch the whole thing it will probably be obvious) then let you determine whether you want to take a closer look. Then we can decide the best way to try and get the file to you (I could drop all the music audio and export one big audio file to re sync with the movie once done, but I will wait to worry on that until you decide whether you are interested.)

Do you have a YouTube username or email that I can use to link you to the private file? Thank you so much in advance for even considering helping me with this.
Heather Disco
November 17, 2012 at 8:18 pm in reply to: Removing low hum audio on files in FCP 6 while preserving speech?

I have not tried Izotope RX-2 but I do have Soundtrack Pro, I have never used it for anything other than cutting a background music file for promo videos so I have only ever created a sound not edited one.

To use Soundtrack Pro, will I have to take the audio files off the video, attempt a denoise and then have to re sync each and every clip? The promo video is a twelve minute “short film” that will be pitching a full length movie, and with the amount & types of cuts, re syncing the audio to each and every part will take a great amount of time.

You said “Sometimes a parametric notch around the fundamental frequency can help.” Is this something in FCP? I haven’t heard of this before and don’t know how to access it.

Thank you for your response
Heather Disco
November 17, 2012 at 8:14 pm in reply to: Removing low hum audio on files in FCP 6 while preserving speech?

Yes please. I did not see the previous comment, I didn’t get an email notification about it like I did on my other post (?)

I am not familiar with Izotope RX-2 in the slightest, but I just looked it up and it looks spendy but there is a trial version; I may be able to use the full version to test it out – I will look into that more.

Did you happen to watch the clips and from there, determine that Izotope RX-2 would be the kind of thing I need? Sorry, audio was unfortunately never a strong point for me in film school.

Thanks so much for the response.
Heather Disco
November 16, 2012 at 1:50 am in reply to: Removing low hum audio on files in FCP 6 while preserving speech?

I have tried AUHiass filters but I can’t seem to tweak them enough to make the speech not sound “tin-y”
Heather Disco
November 15, 2012 at 8:17 pm in reply to: Compressing a 12 minute video for best quality DVD

Thanks for the quick response.

I read the file (didn’t see it before so thank you) and here is my source codec:

Format: H.264, 1,920 x 1,080
Linear PCM, 16 bit little-endian signed integer, 48000 Hz, Stereo (L R)

FPS: 16.63

Data Size: 937.3 MB

8.04 Mbit/s

Does that help in any way? As far as destination codec I really don’t know what I would write. I don’t know much about specifics of encoding so I am not sure what 2 pass VBR is or what 1 Pass CBR is either. I looked around in Compressor and I can’t figure out how to change things like “6.5 mbps”. I have no idea how to set up custom compressions.