Best filter for cutting wind noise

Jdaniels

Jdaniels

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Was shooting some practice footage for a friend working on interview skills today. It was fairly windy and I just used the shotgun mic on the camera to record audio. I usually use my sennheiser wireless gear when doing the real deal, but today I didnt.
I need to filter out the wind as best as possible, so which audio filter should I use. I have FCP 7 with the standard filters from Apple and Final Cut Pro.

Thanks,
JD
 
Honestly... the "reshoot filter" is your only hope.

A low-cut (aka hi-pass) EQ will help a little by taking out the low-end rumble, but you will be left with distortion artifacts across pretty much the rest of the spectrum and nothing can be done about that.
 
C2V said:
Honestly... the "reshoot filter" is your only hope.

A low-cut (aka hi-pass) EQ will help a little by taking out the low-end rumble, but you will be left with distortion artifacts across pretty much the rest of the spectrum and nothing can be done about that.
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Yes, well, There's always that pesky reshoot option, but I want to work on my post skills to present him with a halfway decent, i.e. watchable file he can use. This is a one time only shoot as he is out of town starting tomorrow.
 
Yeah I don't know of a filter that completely removes wind noise. You can try washing it through the Noise Reduction plug in in Soundtrack Pro but that is best for a constant noise like electrical hum, etc. And it leaves weird sounding artifacts if you apply it aggressively. Take it as an important lesson- don't skimp on the production sound- it's difficult/impossible to really fix in post.

Noah
 
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