voice distorted
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Noiz2
Sound Ninja
There is not a lot you can do, with any program. You can try to use a limiter to round the top of the chopped off waveforms, that will usually soften the harshness but what ever got lost is lost. If it's not to bad just mellowing the harshness might make it usable. If it's really trashed.... Garbage in garbage out.
It may be ADR time.
It may be ADR time.
ozduc
Well-known member
RichW said:
I think FCP only has 1 audio limiter. Digital distortion or clippling is impossible to repair. It is kind of like over exposing your shot and having everything blown out. There is not much you can do about it after the fact. Remember ALWAYS use headphones and monitor your audio. Just cause the meters on the camera might look fine, it doesn't mean the audio sounds fine.
ScoobySounds
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A bit of light clipping can be clip restored in a program like audition,
or in the same program you could draw the wave back to having peaks again by moving the actual samples. (reduce the amplitude of your wave by by a few db to give you a bit of space for your new peaks)
heavier clipping means absolute loss of information i'm afraid.
or in the same program you could draw the wave back to having peaks again by moving the actual samples. (reduce the amplitude of your wave by by a few db to give you a bit of space for your new peaks)
heavier clipping means absolute loss of information i'm afraid.
Noiz2
Sound Ninja
FCP also has some noise reduction plugins (or poss you have to send the clip to STP?) that might help a little.
What is gone is gone, but by rounding the chopped waveforms you can sometimes get rid of the very nasty digital grit and get something usable. I would be doing this in Pro Tools so I'm not sure what your choices are in FCP. Drawing out individual clipped peaks isn't very practical unless you only have a very few.
Also all of us have been assuming that this is digital clipping, it could be the mic preamp clipping. This doesn't sound as harsh as digital clipping but is actually harder to clear up. Don't expect too much improvement.
What is gone is gone, but by rounding the chopped waveforms you can sometimes get rid of the very nasty digital grit and get something usable. I would be doing this in Pro Tools so I'm not sure what your choices are in FCP. Drawing out individual clipped peaks isn't very practical unless you only have a very few.
Also all of us have been assuming that this is digital clipping, it could be the mic preamp clipping. This doesn't sound as harsh as digital clipping but is actually harder to clear up. Don't expect too much improvement.