Unwanted Wind sounds in video clip, any audio filter's that might help???

[Bruce Hornsby]

Unwanted Wind sounds in video clip, any audio filter's or effects that might help reduce or get rid of this wind noise ??? thanks

[Bruce Hornsby]

Thanks Dan, oh well I guess I'll have to live with it for now, I'm going to check out the Sound Forge soon. Thanks man for filling me in

[Dan Heim]

Not much in Premiere. You'll need special sound editing software to do anything even close to what you want. I use SoundForge, which a great WAV editor.

Removing wind sound is tricky since it's basically white noise with frequency components all over the spectrum. But depending on specific environments, it can be more of a "pink" noise that only spreads over a few octaves.

You'd have to look at the frequency spectrum of the wind noise and create a band-pass filter to drop that range a few decibels. You can do this with SoundForge. Apply the filter and hope for the best.

If it's just wind it's not too difficult. If the wind is masking voices or other sounds you want to keep it's a lot more difficult, since you'll lose some of their content in the filtering process. If the wind is changing in volume and pitch AND masking voices there's not a lot you can do.

I've only tried taking out wind on one occasion, and it came down to just experimenting with the filter until I could hear a definite inprovement. But the wind sound was still there in the background. Good luck.

[Malick A]

Hi Bruce
I am using a perspex sheet just about covering the camera to reduce wind noise. Also get yourself a windsock (furry cover) when using an external mic. This will at least avoid having to remix /filter sound. Just a tip.

Malick

[SLG !]

I some pretty band wind and used the free trial of CoolEdit to model the sound and remove it from the entire clip.

Worked pretty good. Left a bit of a warble in some of the quiter portions, but all in all, did the job.

Steven
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