Adobe Audition -- Removing generic noises that run through entire clips

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12 жыл бұрын

Santa Rosa Junior College CS74.21C - Advanced DV post production class, assignment 10
Instructor: Jeff Sengstack -- jsengstack@santarosa.edu
How to use the use the Noise Reduction effect in Adobe Audition.
Jeff Sengstack is the author of the lynda.com tutorial: Soundbooth Essential Training
www.lynda.com/Soundbooth-CS5-t...
Note: Soundbooth and Audition share several characteristics, including the Noise Reduction workflow. With the release of CS5.5, Adobe has discontinued Soundbooth. Audition has been a stand-alone, Windows-only product for a few years. For CS5.5, it was re-engineered to make it Windows & Mac compatible and it is now included in Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium and Master Collection.
Link to Audition Help file section on Copying, cutting, pasting and deleting:
helpx.adobe.com/content/help/e...

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@whatwerewetalkingabout5980 7 жыл бұрын

If anyone is just looking for the Noise Reduction part of this, it begins at 6:29

@FilmRikProductions 6 жыл бұрын

Why Not Studios o

@jacobwatson5512 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, you are a god

@jjwhittle8873 6 жыл бұрын

So much waffle. I can't stand these kind of videos. Why not start showing us pictures of your kids as well?

@jeremysouthard 4 жыл бұрын

The hero we need!

@LindorPlays 8 жыл бұрын

I shot an interview in a medical room where big equipment fans couldn't be turned off. This video was a huge help, and the clip sounds much better! Thank you :D

@realstonekicker4371 11 жыл бұрын

It is always a pleasure to watch/listen to the real pros who understand the art of communicating technical information. Thanks for the quality videos.

@sushinami48 11 жыл бұрын

Nice!! I use Adobe Audition for five years and I didn't know it would be so easy to mute the sound from the room! That simplifies my life a lot, as I produce lots of music and I don't have a studio. Thank's a lot!!

@xGomeztheWolfx 9 жыл бұрын

Very nice tutorial! I've used Audition only a few times, but I decided to do a scary story reading for fun. This helped me out tremendously.

@harisberbic9671 10 жыл бұрын

This must be my lucky day, again infinite thanks Master Jeff!

@Synmotion 7 жыл бұрын

This video is so much more than what its title suggests..very helpful..

@AlanFlores 9 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I was looking for. I was able to remove most of the noise from the audio track I recorded during a wedding I captured earlier. Thanks for the video Jeff :)

@BUMCSM 12 жыл бұрын

thanks a lot, have always used soundbooth- didn't even realize CS5.5 didn't have soundbooth until i tried to clean up some audio in a premiere project. Very helpful vid and the audio i cleaned up seemed to have much better results than I have ever gotten from soundbooth.

@damiencarton5998 11 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to thank you for this video, i'm a beginner in video editing (and sound..) i fidled a little with audition but always got burbly voices and weird spikes when people started talking... Your tutorial is very straight forward, i watched a lot of tutorials on this subjects, but yours did it for me :) You explain everything, and it really helps !! Now, thanks to you i'm one step closer to delivering "pro" movies :)

@PhillipSiddiq 11 жыл бұрын

I was looking for a DVD tutorial on Audition. Watching your video really pushed me to purchase one. And low and behold......it's your DVD! Looking forward to learning from it.

@ckarczewski 12 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU SOO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP! I go to Columbia College Chicago. They teach Pro Tools but I am switching to Adobe because of your videos. Thanks again I wish you were my teacher.

@bradfrankshaw 8 жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial - I've never used Audition before, but I had a serious background hiss/mic hiss issue in my Premiere Pro file - by the end of this tutorial it was solved! thanks!!

@JeffSengstack 8 жыл бұрын

+Frank Bradshaw Good to know. You're welcome.

@GreenTribeOfficial 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experience.

@adilbasha 12 жыл бұрын

great tutorial. one of the best i've seen! thanks a lot.

@RaymondPetersonTheMoreIvreet 9 жыл бұрын

Thanks. The spectral waveform was something that I avoided. I see it is a helpful tool for good audio.

@CebuLightsandMusic 12 жыл бұрын

hands down! thanks for your effort! Great video! it helped me improve my videos. thanks

@HillaryMeister 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This helped me tremendously! Now... I've removed the a/c noise, but the voice is a bit echoey. I'll go look for a tutorial on how to fix that.

@JeffSengstack 7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Good luck with your quest to fix an echoey voice. I don't know of an effect or technique to remove echo. If the voice became echoey as a result of removing the A/C noise, perhaps remove less noise.

@digantshah4753 10 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial. Thank you for sharing.

@dedskin1 8 жыл бұрын

that's a pretty clear audio to start with

@jaymovez 11 жыл бұрын

Wow, SO SIMPLE but so effective. Thank you so much I was looking for exactly this to reduce noise!

10 жыл бұрын

Awesome tut! :) I knew it is done this way, but didn't knew how to do it :D

@WtbgoldBlogspot 8 жыл бұрын

Do you recommend doing noise removal before or after EQ and loudness?

@JeffSengstack 8 жыл бұрын

After. Do all editing that will change volume levels first. Then do noise reduction. That way, you avoid amplifying any noise artifacts that you might not have noticed before you changed levels.

@chriswhitten7225 8 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial! You are an excellent teacher :)

@terrywall4591 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks a bunch, Jeff! I'm not surprised by your reply as I thought the waterfall rushing sound covered a pretty wide frequency range. I do subscribe to CC, so I'll check out that Sound Remover effect. I'm also having to contend with a helicopter flying overhead, as the wedding was close to Camp Pendleton, but alas, there's only so much that can be done if it's an outdoor wedding! Thanks again!

@Nathjrb 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial. Maybe I'm being very picky. I don't have a hum as such, more like a very faint hiss from the radio mics. I've removed it best I can but it does seem to distort the voices slightly.... but it's barely noticeable to be honest.

@dhawaljoshi1 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeff. Very helpful.

@lauraosborne7326 9 жыл бұрын

So helpful! Thank you :)

@pshyclaticvibrationn 11 жыл бұрын

i am from country nepal its very nice to hear you.... you explain very nicely and thank you alots sir thanks alts.

@honey1761990 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Awesome tutorial! :)

@gurleenkohli1 8 жыл бұрын

Hi Jeff, Really nice tutorial. I just need to know how can I remove one of the sounds from an audio song ( like an generic noise from background but with lots of other audio musical sounds. Please suggest!!

@JeffSengstack 8 жыл бұрын

+Gurleen Kohli If you go to the following playlist you'll see two tutorials on noise removal in Audition: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nsygaN2Wlb64haM.html

@deniseyahrling3689 8 жыл бұрын

Very, very good tutorial! Thanks a lot!! Saved my audio :)

@JeffSengstack 8 жыл бұрын

+Denise Yahrling Good to know. You're welcome.

@HeatherBridge 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeff! I'm a newbie with audition so this helped!

@JeffSengstack 6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@JeffSengstack 12 жыл бұрын

You can remove the dialogue if it's centered in the clip. To do that use the Center Channel Extractor effect. If the voices are spread out, using that effect becomes impractical.

@cyberdogtube 12 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@moreapropos 8 жыл бұрын

This is very helpful and you are 100% correct about that watery metallic sound (that's a perfect description btw). I seem to encounter that side effect often, but how do you get rid of it. In some cases, that sound is worse than the noise, so it sort of makes the whole attempt futile. Sometimes I have been able to decrease by not applying the NR effect so aggressively, but then sometimes there is a trace of noise left. I guess it is not a 100% solution?

@JeffSengstack 8 жыл бұрын

Your conclusion is correct. Depending on the noise, the noise print used in the Noise Reduction effect can have a wide range and complex set of frequencies. When working with that type of noise, the Noise Reduction effect will have a much harder time making quality sound. In those cases, it comes down to adjusting the amount of noise you want to remove (percent and dB) relative to your perception of the sound quality.

@JeffSengstack 11 жыл бұрын

I would first try to remove the BG noise a little at at time. Apply the effect several times at light settings. That might reduce the resulting tinniness. To make voices richer -- use an EQ effect to add some bass and mid-tones. Or overdub. Mix two or three versions of the same clip with miniscule offsets in time. Finally, if the BG sound is distinct -- like a hum -- the upcoming version of Audition has a new Sound Remover effect that does wonders with dynamic, foreground sound.

@JeffSengstack 11 жыл бұрын

Noise Reduction is a "process" effect, meaning it can be applied only directly to a clip. It can not be used in the Effects rack or in a Multitrack session.

@felipecuyumjian 8 жыл бұрын

Hi! Very well explained! How do I copy or apply the noise reduction I`ve just made to other pieces of the same speech? (considering I have imported a project from Premiere with cuts in it) Do I have to apply the reduction to each piece of audio?

@JeffSengstack 8 жыл бұрын

Once you create a noise print, it remains the current print until you make another one. So, you can open a clip, capture a noise print, use it with Noise Reduction, then simply apply Noise Reduction to each clip, one at a time, without making a new noise print. Or you can import the original full audio clip used in P Pro, do noise reduction on it, save it under a new name, and replace that clip in P Pro. To replace a clip, right-click that clip in the Project Panel and choose Replace Footage.

@felipecuyumjian 8 жыл бұрын

Wow. Ok, got it. Thank you so much!

@JeffSengstack 8 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@teluproductions 5 жыл бұрын

You are amazing and thank you so much for sharing your knowledge of Audition....

@JeffSengstack 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! You are most welcome.

@lagnomaxim 10 жыл бұрын

Very helpful. Thanx!

@jasonargall 10 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

@yicrhymeproduction 12 жыл бұрын

hey thank you for your tutorial its work... thank you and god bless

@Lz1Movies 12 жыл бұрын

thank you!!

@fuattatar 12 жыл бұрын

ty very much good video

@JeffSengstack 11 жыл бұрын

Hi Terry. Unfortunately, falling water is a lot like "white" noise in that it includes a full range of frequencies. So removing waterfall noise will likely remove a lot of other audio as well. Your best bet is to use Audition's Noise Reduction effect and capture a noise print of the waterfall when no one is speaking. You'll need to do this as a separate process for each audio source. If you have Audition CC, its new Sound Remover effect might work better.

@MrAnomylous 8 жыл бұрын

Good tutorial.. Thanks.

@JeffSengstack 8 жыл бұрын

+Robert Cunningham Thanks Robert.

@ljbattle9646 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@dkmanley54 11 жыл бұрын

Hi Jeff. Used Audition CS6 for the 1st time, helping my son on his school project. You are correct when you exclaimed "Amazing" for removing a background noise throughout an entire clip. The problem the voices are so intermingled with the BG noise that when noise was removed the voices are very watery/tinny as you describe. Is there a tool/process for adding richness back to the voices after the noise removal? Thanks for great tuts, looking forward to watching more. Dave Manley

@terrywall4591 11 жыл бұрын

Hi, Jeff! Wonder if you could offer a suggestion on how I might remove--or at least minimize--the sound of a waterfall in the background of the spoken word? I was shooting a wedding for a friend and the venue had a waterfall running while the ceremony was in progress. I had 3 audio sources and they all had the waterfall noise in them...BUMMER! I was watching this video but the noises in your example weren't as disruptive as the waterfall sound. What might you recommend? Thanks a bunch!

@armallya 11 жыл бұрын

This is excellent, do you have hands on training at Santa Rosa College for part time and evening lecture? is this Santa Rosa California? ·

@dkmanley54 11 жыл бұрын

i can't figure out how to bring a saved Noise reduction (process) filter I saved into the Effects rack.

@caleb121693 8 жыл бұрын

If I applied this effect, saved it and closed audition. Then I decided to change my mind and re-edit the clip how can I do that? There's no way for me to reset it

@JeffSengstack 8 жыл бұрын

You are correct. The process of editing audio clips (as opposed to applying effects in a multitrack session) is "destructive." If you apply one or more edits to a clip and then save that clip using the clip's original file name, you will have changed the original clip. And you can't un-do those edits. So...when editing a clip, use Save As and give that clip a new name like "original-clip-edited.wav."

@Starbuckin 12 жыл бұрын

Thanks alot! You've just made a sub!

@KhakiPance 10 жыл бұрын

can you do this with a snare drum from song?

@JeffSengstack 10 жыл бұрын

Probably, but a snare drum is not a generic, background sound like those I cover in this video. It's a dynamic foreground sound. In that case, your best bet is to use the Sound Remover effect (Adobe added it to Audition CC, which was released after I did this video). Select a few samples of the snare drum using the Paintbrush Selection Tool (hold down the Shift key to get more than one selection) and choose Effects > Noise Reduction > Learn Sound Model. Use the Time Selection Tool to highlight the portion of the clip you want to fix and then choose Effects > Noise Reduction > Sound Remover. To figure out what the various settings do, click the "i" information button in the upper right corner of the effect dialog box to open your browser to the Help file section on this effect.

@RiZiNGxENIgMa 7 жыл бұрын

Wow thank you so much!

@JeffSengstack 7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@TTPotterUltraPower 12 жыл бұрын

What about removing the main dialogue and just keeping the Background Music (both voice and music in a single track) I have used the spectral editor and I know that the whole thing is the yellow parts. The thing is, there isn't much uniformity in the track, there are small yellow bits all over it, and I need that all so I can keep the sad, dark tone. What do I do?

@TTPotterUltraPower 12 жыл бұрын

Oh I already tried that, it just gives me muffled noises and faint but audible versions of the dialogue which sounds robotic. The dialogue is not centered. What can I do to select all the parts of the same color in the spectral editor? That's the only way...

@MultiXnet 8 жыл бұрын

Best mode is> turn on EQ 30. and pull down every one after each other. one will work 100%

@AdrianGarcia-jh8ry 7 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@JeffSengstack 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@CranmanPhotoCinema 10 жыл бұрын

What about EQing it after noise reduction?

@JeffSengstack 10 жыл бұрын

Using an Equalizer effect toward the tail end of the workflow is frequently a good idea. I didn't cover it here because the focus was on removing noises.

@TTPotterUltraPower 12 жыл бұрын

Ok, but I don't understand what you mean by copy and paste 'into" the clip. Can you elaborate?

@CorbinChancellorTV 11 жыл бұрын

If you are having trouble capturing a Noise make sure at the top left you're in waveform

@dkmanley54 11 жыл бұрын

good advice I'll try those. The noise is more of a hiss, an old computer because the kids filmed using a Galaxy S3 but with the screen reversed picking up noise behind the camera ;) Kids.

@CranmanPhotoCinema 10 жыл бұрын

I have a project where once I do this, my vocals get incredibly tinny. How do I fix that?

@JeffSengstack 10 жыл бұрын

That is the downside to some noise reduction/removal. If the noise is too close in pitch to the sound you want to retain, heavy reduction can lead to that tinny sound. To remedy that, you can try a couple approaches. The easiest but less desirable method is to simply do less intense noise reduction. Or, working in the spectral frequency view, you can use selection tools to highlight a frequency range that is above the pitch for your voice and use stronger noise reduction on that. And then select the range that includes your vocals and do less intense reduction on that.

@CranmanPhotoCinema 10 жыл бұрын

Jeff Sengstack What about EQing it after noise reduction, to bring life back to it?

@evensstlouis8207 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your great tutorial, after removing the wind noise in the background I end up having a robot voice.

@JeffSengstack 7 жыл бұрын

That is a common result. The more noise you remove the more robotic (metallic) the vocals. The only suggestion I can make is to adjust the two sliders in the Noise Reduction effect as you listen to the results, trying to find the best middle ground.

@JeffSengstack 12 жыл бұрын

You can copy a selection from one clip and paste it into another clip or into the current clip. Or you can make a selection and copy it to a new clip. For more information on that go to the link I put in the description (KZfaq does not permit links in comments).

@JeffSengstack 12 жыл бұрын

Your results using the Center Channel Extractor are not uncommon. As for selecting all the parts of the same color...that can be done, but I don't know that it will work. You can use a selection tool to select a brightly colored region, and then copy/paste that selection to a clip. But colors don't represent voices or specific sounds, they represent volume levels within a frequency range. The louder the sound the brighter the color. Selecting a color, leaves out a whole lot of frequencies.