Wind Noise Cleanup

taormina

taormina

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Hi guys,

What audio fx would you apply in Vegas to a track that has heavy wind noise? I cannot ge the actors back for ADR.
 
It is unlikely that you're going to get decent sound out of that.

But you can try the track EQ and the noise gate.
 
Right, if it's heavy then it's not likely you're going to rescue it. But you can cut some of the low-end rumble, use the EQ to drop the lowest frequencies to zero and see what you think. You might end up removing some of the rumble, but at the expense of making the voices sound more hollow and more like a telephone call.
 
I just shot a series outside. I've got wind sounds as well. I plan to dub most of it. I rendered clips of all dialog that I intend to dub and add back in over some ambient. Any tips on best way to do this?

I'll cut down as much room noise as possible in my studio (read home) then film with my cam (best mic I have only works with my DVX) while they listen to clips on headphones.
 
If you absolutely have to use what you have, you might give the Sony Noise Reduction plug-in a try. I just recently ran into a similar situation and it was pretty effective at removing the droning wind. For the gusts I automated an EQ to notch filter out the appropriate frequencies. It wasn’t great, but it was way better than what was there.
 
just to clarify the eq part. You can try a notch filter at -inf with a fairly narrow width and move it around to isolate the wind noise. It might produce reasonable results if the wind is fairly consistent and of a similar freq.
 
I used a high-pass filter on some wind noise and lowered it until it cut out a lot of the wind noise. However, there are chunks of it that are at the same frequency as the dialogue, and there just isn't anything that can be done with that.

But high-pass set to 300hz and a bit of EQing in the midrange cleaned it up and made it at least listenable.
 
I tried my hand at dubbing last night. So far so good. it's so sweet to see the SNR expand. I think I got 30+dB. I recorded in my office. No echo-y sounds. I just hope i can weave it together so the whole thing sounds right.
 
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