How to fix audio in post
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unclebob6958
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How much do you want to spend? $100? $1,000? $10,000?
The best "software" is your brain. Then you spend lots of time.
A low pass filter will take out some of the engine rumble. There are reverb removers that are partially effective. If you have real echo (delay) you have troubles.
iZotope RX2 is pretty good at smoothing out troubled tracks; it still takes lots of time and lots of patience, however.
Noiz2
Sound Ninja
The short answer is no. There is software that a person who knows what they are doing can use to help them clean up the tracks, but it's the skilled person who is key not so much the software. Software is just a tool.
That said (because I think you were looking for something you could buy that would do some kind of automatic "fixing" of the sound, and that does not exist) even the best tools may not get you where you need.
A lesson for the future is that there is pretty much no valid reason (except for documentary/ journalism shoots) to shoot sound in a moving vehicle with the engine running. There are nine zillion ways to shoot that kind of shot where you never have to shoot sound when the vehicle is in operation.
Folks who have all the money in the world don't do it for a reason, it almost never works out. You don't have $$$$$ to throw at it but mostly the way around it is free. Mostly it's working the shot list and planning the shoot.
Of course if you do have $$$$$ to throw at it PM me and we can work out a deal ;~).
That said (because I think you were looking for something you could buy that would do some kind of automatic "fixing" of the sound, and that does not exist) even the best tools may not get you where you need.
A lesson for the future is that there is pretty much no valid reason (except for documentary/ journalism shoots) to shoot sound in a moving vehicle with the engine running. There are nine zillion ways to shoot that kind of shot where you never have to shoot sound when the vehicle is in operation.
Folks who have all the money in the world don't do it for a reason, it almost never works out. You don't have $$$$$ to throw at it but mostly the way around it is free. Mostly it's working the shot list and planning the shoot.
Of course if you do have $$$$$ to throw at it PM me and we can work out a deal ;~).