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Hi!
I have a larger big trouble concerning my wedding video. We got married on a beach and on that day specifically the wind and the waves were rather bad. I can hear about 98% of the word in the audio but it is heavily contaminated by wind and wave sounds. I have been trying to clear it up myself using some instructions but have not succeeded very well.

I understand that this is a big trouble as the wind/waves varies in db and in frequency, but I am not able to reshoot it so I am stuck with this. Do you have any tips for helping me or better yet if someone is able to take a look at the file themselves (I've added the wave file in here). If it gets 1% better than the current state I would be glad.

The file is on google drive where you can download it
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1Oi74 ... =drive_web


I would be very greatful!

Thank you

Using Audacity 2.1.2 (.exe installer)

Sign in to Google Drive to Create an Account!!!

How about no. I'm not going to do that.

Koz

lindstroem wrote:The file is on google drive where you can download it

You'll need to make the link "public" so that we can download it.

Ah sorry about that! Please try now.

High Pass filter, 300 Hz, 48 dB per octave may help a bit.

The "Isolate Vocals" setting in the "Vocal Reduction and Isolation" effect helps to make the main voice clearer, but at the expense of creating weird bubbly sounds in the background ("strength" should be set to about 1.0).

Sorry, no miracles.

steve wrote:High Pass filter, 300 Hz, 48 dB per octave may help a bit.

The "Isolate Vocals" setting in the "Vocal Reduction and Isolation" effect helps to make the main voice clearer, but at the expense of creating weird bubbly sounds in the background ("strength" should be set to about 1.0).

Sorry, no miracles.

Thanks! The high pass filter defidently helped sort out the highest areas. The isolate vocals defidently helped make the voices clearar but at the cost of making the sound surreal (The video of a couple on the beach and that background noice makes it a bit too weird to put in a wedding film)

I've tried to play around with other settings, is there some other action apart from high pass filter that you think can be applied to tone the wind down? My belief is that the volume of the voices are fairly similar, not possible to distinguish the noiser wind based on that? (or something). Thanks again!

steve wrote:High Pass filter, 300 Hz, 48 dB per octave may help a bit.

The "Isolate Vocals" setting in the "Vocal Reduction and Isolation" effect helps to make the main voice clearer, but at the expense of creating weird bubbly sounds in the background ("strength" should be set to about 1.0).

Sorry, no miracles.

Thank you very much for your input. The high pass filter was a good suggestion and although the isolate vocals did make the sound more clear, the bubbly sounds would not suit in very well with the wedding video with the ocean in the scenery. Do you have any other suggestions on how to further improve from the high pass filter? Did make it alot better.

Thanks!

lindstroem wrote:

steve wrote:High Pass filter, 300 Hz, 48 dB per octave may help a bit.

The "Isolate Vocals" setting in the "Vocal Reduction and Isolation" effect helps to make the main voice clearer, but at the expense of creating weird bubbly sounds in the background ("strength" should be set to about 1.0).

Sorry, no miracles.

Thanks! The high pass filter defidently helped sort out the highest areas. The isolate vocals defidently helped make the voices clearar but at the cost of making the sound surreal (The video of a couple on the beach and that background noice makes it a bit too weird to put in a wedding film)

I've tried to play around with other settings, is there some other action apart from high pass filter that you think can be applied to tone the wind down? My belief is that the volume of the voices are fairly similar, not possible to distinguish the noiser wind based on that? (or something). Thanks again!

If you apply a high pass filter, you should take the option "Isolate Center" and not vocals.
Apply it on a duplicated track and mix the two tracks together (by turning down the original) such that bubbly noises are still masked.
After all, you wanted only 1 % improvement...
perhaps, a bit noise reduction with one of the available noise types as profile may help too.
Robert

In this situation, I'd suggest subtitles.

@Robert J. H., Do you mean copying the track so I have two then apply High pass filter on one and then isolate center on the other and then mix them? Do you have any recommendations on the settings for isolate center?
Well what I wanted was to have a crisp perfect recap of the voices and a slight lovely breeze in the background, but I would be glad even for 1% improvement which isn't to say that I will settle there

@DVDdoug, Thank you I believe that you are correct. I will try my best to improve the quality of the audio but then add subtitles. Also makes it more genuine compared to just adding a voice over.