The Sound of wind

[JPMVDE]

Hi,

I have recently captured some film I made in a windy area and it comes out really loud and you cannot hear any of the narration or background talking.
Does anybody have any ideas or suggest any programs I can use to get rid of this annoying, badly planned filming?

Thanks

JPV

[jelir]

I use noise reduction feature in Studio9 to remove the sound of wind. Sometime it works fine but sometime the sound get worse.

[Snakebyte1]

Hi...

There of course are Professional filters and tools for this but these are usually out of reach for the average person...

I find that the filters available in, say MediaStudio or Premiere are OK, but it depends on your source - sometime they work, mostly they don't.

The easiest solution for the narration is to simply re-record the narration and dub it back over the video, the adjust the audio levels to make it blend in with the rest of the project.

The background talking would be harder to dub over. This may or may not be possible, it depends on what you have filmed and how long it is etc. If you could write out a transcript of what is being said, then get those individuals to read out those lines, you could redub it back in. It gets more difficult if you have close-ups of people talking, then you have to get the audio in synch or it looks like a foreign dubbed film!!!

D.

[BobK]

You might try one of the cheaper (or free) audio editors to filter it out. I've had good luck with [url=https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=GoldWave]Goldwave and they have a free trial.

[dphirschler]

Next time use a condom. Haha.. seriously, pros will sometimes stretch a condom over the microphone to prevent/reduce wind noise.

That doesn't help you much with this recording though. I would imagine your wind noise is in the lower register. Try using a bandpass/stop filter to clip out the bass in those parts.


Darryl

[tin2tin]

If it is fiction - post sync'ing(rerecording of voices) of the actors - would be what the pro's do - when the dialog is of bad sound quality.

Or if you got several takes of the same lines of dialog, just edit them in over the bad sounding lines - usually you can get better results that way than post sync'ing, because the actors are in the same mood an in the image.

Tin2tin

[JPMVDE]

Any tools or filters I could use in Adobe Audition???

[Soopafresh]

Use dynamic range compression. It'll make the loud stuff more quiet, and the quiet stuff louder.

[JPMVDE]

Thanks! Will give it a shot.

[greymalkin]

wow! thats pretty funny..i came here to ask the exact same question...i also have a video that sounds like it was shot during a hurricane! i don't think it's salvageable but i hope yours works out.
The key is how bad the wind noise is..i've edited out wind noise before when it showed up as a low rumble by just dropping out the lower frequencies in the eq...however, if its in the same frequency as the speech range and constantly overpowering it..i don't know if any amount of money will be able to fix...

[Soopafresh]

Post 20 seconds of it in an Mp3 file up here and we'll give it a shot...

[bit_pit]

Charcoal tablets help my wind probems.....