Hi,
I tried several different approaches to edit out clicks and breaths from a podcast. Starting with locating and deleting each occurrence one by one by hand, to using several effects that automatically remove one or the other.
I’m looking for advice on the approach I settled on to see if anyone else has done it this way or if there are other ways to approach this issue.
What I settled on is the following and I wanted to see if anyone had feedback:
- Start with the audio that I want to edit.
- Duplicate the original audio and use an effect to pull out what is recognized by the effect to be heavy breathing - then invert that track.
- Duplicate the original audio again and use an effect to pull out what is recognized by the effect to be clicking - then invert that track.
- Mix and Render the two inverted tracks into a new track which is now the inverted sounds that I want to remove.
- Listen to the original track and the newly rendered inverted track together while I listen for missing or incomplete words due to an overly aggressive breath or click removal and at the same time edit the audio for regular issues (I use Sync-Lock Tracks to keep everything in sync).
- If I find a word or words that have been compromised due to excess breath/click removal, I silence that part of the mixed and rendered inverted track.
- When I’m done with editing the original track and the mixed and rendered inverted track, I then do a Mix and Render using the original track and the mixed and rendered inverted track and I end up with a final edited audio track with breath and clicks removed but without any compromised audio since I have removed the excessive breaths/clicks during the editing process.
It seems to be easier, and quicker, to silence the small and spaced out section of the inverted track than it is to highlight the original track and delete or silence a section of that. And, assuming that the automatic effects were fairly accurate in identifying breaths and clicks (say 80% accurate), then I only have 20% of the clicks/breaths to deal with instead of 100%.
Not sure if I explained that well enough or not, but if anyone has any feed back on the approach or any other approach that helps to save editing time, that would be helpful.
Thanks,
Mike