Hi, Editing a Cancun video excursion of the Maya Ruins. During the info delivered by our guide a brief but strong wind came up and lasted for about 10-15 mins. Didn't realize I didn't have windscreen on mic. On my Prestige I have the Basic audio filters. Any suggestions in eliminating or at least reducing this effect as it reduced the volume of the speaker.
Tks, Bill
This is where we start to create artificial background tracks to fill in when the camera track is too noisey and windy.
You can write down what the guide was saying and have someone with a pleasant voice read it into a mic and lay down a new narration track. Next you mute the camera original track.
Then on one of the other tracks put down some convincing natural outdoor sounds, birds chirping, car noises, and if late in the day crickets chirping, or what ever beasts are natural to that location. To make the entire presentation match, you would probably want to repeat this for the other scenes where the guide is talking as they should all match. Another trick would be to find some other scene where the wind isn't too loud and there is no guide speaking....then make a
Scene->sample of that track and lay this new sound as a natural background for your scenes needing a background sound. This is natural, as it was taken from the real natural on location audio and placed where it is needed. There is more than one way to skin a cat, as they say.
We have to do this if the wind noise is as loud or louder than the speaking voice of the guide. Don't fight with the wind, replace it with a soft but realistic background track. A little music between narration will set it off and make it even more interesting to watch.
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Wind noise overlaps too many critical frequencies normally to be able to selectively filter out without totally destroying the fidelity of the audio you want to preserve/enhance so prevention is the only practical solution.
You can try messing with it in PC audio software like Audacity and such, but I doubt you will be able to do anything with it you are happy with.
Live and learn unfortunately.
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Hi, Editing a Cancun video excursion of the Maya Ruins. During the info delivered by our guide a brief but strong wind came up and lasted for about 10-15 mins. Didn't realize I didn't have windscreen on mic. On my Prestige I have the Basic audio filters. Any suggestions in eliminating or at least reducing this effect as it reduced the volume of the speaker.