SoundTrack Pro Tutorial: Removing Background Noise

[kingjowl]

GAAAAAWD DAAAAYUM

[DoubleSnapProduction]

Thanks for another great tutorial!

[newpageone]

you've saved the day once again, my man. hissy wireless mics are a thing of the past!

[Issendil]

Thank you!! That was very helpful :)

[bobwhiteproductions]

Thanks. Much easier than isolating via 32 band EQ. Make sure to isolate each clip, if the roomtone changes in a narrative sequence. I just did it to my whole scene with roomtone changes, and it worked quite nicely however.

[JulDLuxe]

Very Usefull. Tanx!

[sandilthompson]

Your tutorials are very informative. I only have 1 criticism... You talk too much about unnecessary things like a fairly long intro and goodbye to each tutorial. Generally I have to get a good few minutes into a tutorial before I get into the real teaching of the content.

[iradivadvideos]

@sandilthompson that was very nicely said (and funny)

[RizzoAstronama]

Tok er Jerbs

[Westwind7even]

Help! I want to remove background ambience (nature sounds = bird chirping,insects buzzing) from a song! what have to do.!

Any kind of help will be appreciated .THank you!

[AndrewMerlino]

thanks man, greatly appreciated

[floydpinkxxx]

Thanks for a great tutorial man

[DAVIDISAKSON]

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[pixel480]

hi great tutorial but it wasnt working as well as yours note that i was importing straight from motion to soundtrack would that make a differance in removing the backroud noise . thank for the tutorial and would love a response thank you.

[horstroberts]

thank you!

[SuperMayet]

thank you so much!The only problem I have left now is that when I open it in fcp the sound clip is a bit shorter than the original sound, which means my video is not sync with the sound anymore. Why is this? What can I do? Really appreciate the help!

[supergirl2034]

Perfect sir! Just what I was looking for!

[TheLfotis]

really clear & simple & helpful! Thank you!

[killerdisain]

very nice tutorial good good good

[cameronsbits]

I seen a few of your tutorials and they have been very helpful, cheers mate!

[hankbaby1]

That was very helpful, thank you!

[mountpunchmore]

I am familiar with this noise removal technique. I used to use Audacity to do this. What I am curious about is if I have pretty good audio with just a tad bit of buzzing, is there away to preserve the quality of the audio that I am not removing? Perhaps a way to artificially re-build the pieces of the audio file that were removed, but without the buzz? Or would I basically be better off doing ADR to the entire audio track?

[LaurenDunning1]

Thanks for posting this video! You're a lifesaver and made it easy to follow and understand. I cover sports and the video from the combine I shot had the most annoying buzz/hum from the lights on the football field. I'm sure this won't be the last time I'll have to use the noise reduce on Soundtrack Pro. Thanks again! Lauren

[OptimisticLifestyle]

Is there anyway to connect your new audio to your Footage permanently, So when you move your clip and make changes it changes the audio to?

[MrRicmtz]

you talk to much and should just get to the point!

[2migell]

hi how do you export video & audio

from soundtrack pro

to Tunes or other program

my final cut is not working

[misslemedia]

Thanks dude. Very easy to understand. You saved my movie :)

[woodenpalette]

Thanks Mate - the power of Youtube



[AndTheGiantPeach]

Really helpful, mate. I'm trying to teach myself all this to edit my personal film projects and I really appreciate the resource you're providing here. Thanks so much!

[makeitgo]

Awesome!! You answered my questions!!!

[TheCc0108514]

great~ site!! I have study for the sound track pro's Manuel but the between the send to from FCP to Sound track pro is very confuse. Could you please tell if I don't want destroy original sound property (if sent to sound track from FCP) Which sent to I should do and to sent back to FCP?

Thanks

[LexQPR]

great tutorial mate. cheers!

[tadouk]

thank you .

[JohnBasedow1]

That is a great tutorial. My friend gave me this link & I also learned how to do this at the Apple Store. I got rid of annoying water fountain & vacuum noises in a vid I shot at a spa with this system.

[Evangeline30575]

GRACE!

[SeaDekVideos]

Really helpful, thanks for taking the time to put this video together.

[poormansdreamstudio]

brilliant....as per usual

[deedido9]

Great video but I have a problem. Everything works fine until I try to save it in Soundtrack - whatever name I give the file and wherever I try to save it to, it keeps saying the file cannot be saved.

Any advice?

[andrewgabriel]

that was an awesome video, it worked like a charm! thank you very much!

[chipmunkhippifest]

that little icon at the top is a right buggar to get haha cheers for the tut, subscribing now haha

[tubapizza]

I'm new to FCP and STP. thanks! these will be really helpful.

[aimmap]

very frustrating to watch and listen to.

[guitarman00037]

command "a" selects all buddy

[Mastersun88]

cool can you do this to create acapellas to songs your trying to remix in logic pro I am going to try this trick.

[OgrAdaY]

@Mastersun88 no that is done using the instrumental version along with the normal one and inverting the instrumental

[Mastersun88]

@OgrAdaY dude I know but say like you have a heavy metal song you want to remix there is just no way that method would work and besides you can't just get an instrumental to any song or create a perfect one to any song. so I guess I am going to keep trying until I get an acapella to a heavy metal song or any other song that it is hard to get a good acapella to. remixing can be hard but I am going to give up I love remixing songs that sometimes are hard to get an acapella to.

[yankeeswin27x]

Thank you SO much!!! I have a 45 minute interview segment that I am responsible for editing...and the interview was (foolishly) filmed in the wind... you just saved me hours and hours of re-filming! Thanks so much!!!

[elkwyre]

Hi - does this tutorial apply to STP3 as well?

[OurOnlyPlanB]

Thank you Great vid!

[deedee23k]

I just want to thank you for your great training videos It is really appreciated Thank you so much....

[JoSeVeNJo]

Tanx!

[wvavken]

This really helped me. THANK YOU

[HAMayoral]

So.... How can I export a video out of soundtrack pro? I can only find how to export the audio. (I don' have final cut, I have Logic Pro).

[xexsnowblindxex]

@HAMayoral you should be able to just change the settings in the menu that comes up when you click export. make you have it set to export using compressor and preserve video. i think thats how you get it to export with the video. im not entirely sure because i havent used soundtrack in forever

[omigrad]

Thank you!

[TheApolloDream]

You are Awesome! Keep it up!

[Danmartinez224]

Hey this helped me out alot! thanks so much : ) keep posting

[HAMayoral]

Hootnany, these be fresh vids my friend!

[Twistmusic]

Thank you very much. Very helpful. Please keep posting!!

[kcmamber]

Thank you! Very helpful.

[AnotherWell]

Thank you very much. What I missed was; how does one synch the processed track with the picture in Final Cut Pro? At the moment I am doing it visually.

[ibanezgr]

great but I really hate your accent and your voice

[SmokezZ908]

so can anyone explain to me exactly what soundtrack is?

[istudioo]

good job keep it up!

[AlexsTechChannel]

Thank you so much!!!

[sdastagir]

Thanks a ton, i was working on a edit project and had lots of wind when i conducted an interview, the windy sound was a major concern, with this tutorial i managed to give almost a crisp audio to my client and he was very impressed with it.

[SlamDuncDrummer]

Great tutorials. Thanks for taking the time to help us learn.

[XxMartialArtistxX]

Thx man, and hey u sound like that guy from borderlands that lets you use his cars XD but thanks alot man very helpful

[MrDDAVE2010]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

[dflkeg]

will the sound track pro work on microsoft

[sillentkller9]

@dflkeg lol no its part of the final cut suite which only works on apple

[sillentkller9]

@dflkeg you could try use something like audacity (which is free) or adobe sound booth

[AlexsTechChannel]

@dflkeg No soundtrack pro is mac only

[jollyoldKL7]

I've tried all this and I still have a loud continuous noise in the background of an outside interview I did. If I get rid of most of the noise, my speaker sounds like he's underwater (even if i change the reduction bar.)

Any ideas??

[SoleProprietor]

Thank you for the great tutorial and the easy-to-follow steps!

I had an interview that had some horrible background noise (overhead air conditioner) that I was able to significantly reduce the noise.

[natiscoolha]

thank you man, really appreciate it!

[jakayboy]

haha an audio tutorial an the sound screws up at 0.56

[BlacKatProductionz]

or a BAD MIC!  lol! love your accent, and tutorials!

[SoCalStudio]

Thanks for the tutorial. It helped

[geogodley]

VERY BAD: after doing this, as soon as you audio compress it (in soundtrack pro) to bring the volume up to broadcast level, the noise is back just as loud as before. I compared & there's no difference. we'll see what delane lea engineers say.

[aaronjacobwillman]

Dude, i've watched about a million of your tutorials... and i'm wondering... where the hell is that accent from?

[geogodley]

@aaronjacobwillman southern/ midwest u.s.a

[MrElisha999]

Very Helpful..Thanks

[expecttheatre]

This is great! Thanks so much for putting this together.

[essam891413]

nice tutorial

but nothing compare to adobe audition

[Prafeston]

Thanks! The audio filters in Final Cut are worthless when you can't tell what you are doing until after making changes and rendering the audio...and then it doesn't seem like some of them even do anything. This tutorial helped a lot!

[b4adamas]

First time I've watched your work, and may say, great job. Every helpful. Easy to understand. Keep it up.

[drlavelle]

Thank you Eric,for another lesson. What I really like is that I can play it until I understand it. Best to you,

Doc

[gbmov]

you can just save the soundtrack pro file and it ill be replaced in finalcut pro

[SkyeSweetnamVideo]

You saved my audio!

[adventurekeefe]

AWESOME! Thanks for this tutorial!

[gregcorke123]

Nice one Eric, You do make great tutorials they've helped me out a lot, thanks. I'm going to try this on some footage I've got. Just out of curiosity what happens if you make more than one pass I'm wondering if it might do an even better job, anyone tried this?

[Minori6]

This was one of the most useful sound tutorials I've seen, thank you so much!

[empowermac]

Another grand slam from Eric!

[swetrich]

Thanks!

I knew you could do this but i never knew how!

[robbansv]

thanks, great tutorial

[OhNoItsGojira]

You're the Best

Better than all the rest

Better than anyone

Anyone I've ever met

[iAppleMUSIC]

Nice! I really need to upgrade to the new final cut.

[michaelmckeever9]

Great vid.

[CWAG2]

Very usefull. Thanx! :)

[batlover88]

Hey Eric awesome vid, I literally encountered this trouble the other day on one of my videos....but quick question, how do you reduce that "metallic" sound and still have the background noise reduced?

[AppleSoldier]

use tone control and dont turn it so far down

[batlover88]

Yea I've tried this, but the tone so far hasn't changed the metallic sound, I even move the threshold and amount down a little bit

[onjoFilms]

Try checking the "noise" checkbox on S.P. and that lets you listen to just the noise. Turn up the threshold till you start hearing what you want to keep and back off just a little then hit apply.

[batlover88]

i dunno maybe i'm not getting a good enough "print" of the noise, cuz I've tried this and either the noise doesn't get turned down but it gets rid of metallic, or noise goes away with metallic sound

[sammy646464]

@batlover88 ive been having the same problem, glassy sound seems to be a part of noise reduction, it almost can't be avoided becasue I guess it's removing those frequencies which are present in the real sound. What Ive been experimenting with is first removing as much wind, hum etc with a low pass filter, as much as I can before it starts to sound starts to sound unnnatural, and then running the nosie reduction,. just something to try

[snowboardfrontfliper]

Thank you! great tutorial man!!