As a new user of Video Studio, can anyone tell me the best way to reduce wind noise from video camera footage. We do quite a lot of videoing on board our boat and the wind noise through the microphone often drowns out speech or other required sound.
I have tried noise reduction but this does not help.
Many thanks,
Carole
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Hi Carole,
Unfortunately, VS10+ cannot reduce or eliminate wind noise from the audio section of your video clips. I have had the same problem on some of my video clips as well. I've heard from other forum members that there is a free version of a program called Audacity that is suppose to be able to reduce or eliminate wind noise from an audio file, but the end result might not be very pleasing. What I've been forced to do in these situations, is to mute the audio portions of my video clips that have the wind noise and add background music clips to the music track, thus replacing the audio coming from the video clip. However, if there are certain parts of the audio from the video clip that you need to preserve, such any important voice narrations provided on the clip, you can always go to the audio timeline of your project, click on the video clip to activate the "rubber band" of the clip and you can lower the volume at the wind noise segments where there are no voice narrations and then keep the audio at the default setting at the locations of the needed voice narration durations.
Hope this is helpful.
Maybe other forum members have other suggestions.
Unfortunately, VS10+ cannot reduce or eliminate wind noise from the audio section of your video clips. I have had the same problem on some of my video clips as well. I've heard from other forum members that there is a free version of a program called Audacity that is suppose to be able to reduce or eliminate wind noise from an audio file, but the end result might not be very pleasing. What I've been forced to do in these situations, is to mute the audio portions of my video clips that have the wind noise and add background music clips to the music track, thus replacing the audio coming from the video clip. However, if there are certain parts of the audio from the video clip that you need to preserve, such any important voice narrations provided on the clip, you can always go to the audio timeline of your project, click on the video clip to activate the "rubber band" of the clip and you can lower the volume at the wind noise segments where there are no voice narrations and then keep the audio at the default setting at the locations of the needed voice narration durations.
Hope this is helpful.
Maybe other forum members have other suggestions.
Cheers,
Bryan P.
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X3 Pro
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Canon G10
Canon 40D
Bryan P.
X2 Pro
X3 Pro
Adobe Elements 8
Sony DCR-TRV315 Camcorder
Canon G10
Canon 40D
This problem can be helped on location by instead of using the camera's own microphone, connect an external camera mic that comes with a wind shield. It obviously depends on whether your camera has an audio socket for an external microphone, but if it does, there are relatively cheap microphones available that come with wind shields.
Terry
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To follow on from what blplhp has said, you can export the audio as a .wav file and clean it up in an audio editor such as Audacity (which is free and available here - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/).
How good the results are will vary depending on how bad or what the noise is, but you can use the noise removal filter to select a small portion of the audio where there is no talking etc from which you create a 'noise profile' - you then apply this profile to the rest of your audio. If you read the Audacity help files, I'm sure they'll explain it in much more detail.
peace.
How good the results are will vary depending on how bad or what the noise is, but you can use the noise removal filter to select a small portion of the audio where there is no talking etc from which you create a 'noise profile' - you then apply this profile to the rest of your audio. If you read the Audacity help files, I'm sure they'll explain it in much more detail.
peace.
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Carole