RX 8 Standard by iZotope. RX 8 Standard by iZotope is an audio repair tool plugin for Premiere Pro. You can do things like change the inflection of dialogue with their Dialogue Inflection tool. How many times have you needed something like that, huh? Other features include removing room noise, voice reverb, and breaths in a snap. Creating motion designs quickly and without experience. More than 10K templates, transitions, VFX, and SFX presets. Just choose a preset and apply it in one click. Get unlimited downloads of video templates, stock videos, stock photos, royalty-free music and more, directly in your Creative Cloud applications.
Welcome!Log InCreate A New ProfileMessage ListNew TopicPrint View Hi, What would be the most effective method for removing chirping birds from my dialog track? I've identified they are primarily from 3.5 kHz to 15 kHz and there's heaps of them. I've used the 31 track graphics eq to drop the gain on those frequencies all the way, but then the dialog sounds ugly. Are there other filters that would work better?? Thank you The sound of birds shares a lot of the same frequencies as the human voice. To be honest there isn't much you will be able to do about this. One thing you can try is to send your audio to Soundtrack Pro and use the Noise Reduction function to eliminate as much of the chirping as possible. But you will never get rid of it completely without distroying the dialog. Here's the method: R-click the dialog track in FCP and select Send to > Soundtrack Pro Audio File project. The dialog wil open in STP. Once the dialog track is in STP, zoom in on the timeline and find a spot in the audio where you only have the chirping. Select that part of the audio by dragging in the waveform. Now choose Process > Noise Reduction > Set Noise Print The press CMD + A to select the entire audio track and choose Process > Noise Reduction > Reduce Noise A small window will open. Play the audio and while it plays tweak Noise Treshold and Reduction until you achieve the best possible result. Then click Apply and save your STP file. Switch back to FCP and the changes will be audible inside your FCP project. Best wishes, Ronny As the saying goes, prevention is better than the cure. However if it's there it's there, so if it were me I would fix it in Soundtrack. I would start afresh without all the previously applied filters then open the offending clip in Soundtrack. Using the spectrum editor you will be able to see the 'Tweets' and erase them without touching the dialogue. Sounds like you are in for a long night. Best wishes. Ronny, XGTV - Thanks for this info! I'm working on another issue so I won't get to this for a day or so. I'll report back my results then.. Josh Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum. |
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Use these audio tips (and a couple of plugins) to easily remove reverb and echo from dialogue.
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Recording sound dialogue can prove challenging on set. Sometimes we find ourselves sacrificing ideal audio conditions for a beautiful shot. Whatever the case, we’ve all come across dialogue audio recorded with too much natural reverb present within the room.
If budget and time allows, ADR is the higher-quality option to replace your cavernous dialogue recording. Though as filmmakers often know, the best option isn’t always the most realistic in completing your project.
In any case, there are a few great plugins (compatible with Adobe Audition, Premiere Pro, and most audio/video editing software) that can actually “de-verb” your dialogue audio.
Don’t want to buy them? All of these plugins have trial-versions you can try out for free. Let’s take a look below:
- Acon Digital DeVerberate($99.90)
- SPL De-Verb($59.00)
- iZotope RX4($1,200)
Here’s a video tutorial from Curtis Judd of Learn Light and Sound that covers the removal of echo and reverb from dialogue audio using two of the above plugins: Acon Digital DeVerberate and SPL De-Verb. After the video, we’ll look at the steps Judd took in his process.
This video tutorial was first shared by Curtis Judd on his YouTube channel. Thanks, Curtis!
Acon Digital DeVerberate Step-by-Step Tutorial
1. Open the plugin and select reduce room reverb from the preset menu. Listen to the dialogue audio with and without the plugin engaged.
2. Next, adjust the reverb time (the time it takes for the original source sound to reflect off of the walls and come back to the microphone)in the source reverb settings box. As a general rule of thumb, larger rooms require a greater amount of reverb time (in seconds). Enable the difference monitoring box. This allows you to hear the amount of reverb the plugin will be filtering from your dialogue audio. Adjust the reverb time parameter gradually while playing back the audio. Adjust until you begin to hear only the reverb from the dialogue.
3. Uncheck difference monitoring to hear what effect the plugin has on the dialogue. Next, adjust the reverb level (dB) parameter (the amount of reverb to reduce/add) balancing between reverb removal and avoiding artifacts.
4. Although your dialogue audio should be sounding pretty good at this point, there may be some artifacts in the audio from the reverb reduction. Next, we will use the spectral smoothing parameter to reduce these artifacts. Use this parameter carefully as higher values may bring back some reverb.
SPL De-Verb Step-by-Step Tutorial
1. Upon opening, you will find this plugin has a very simple interface with only two parameters: reverb reduction, and output gain. Select the preset titled Less Room – more direct from the preset selection menu.
2. Adjust the reverb reduction parameter until you cancel out most of the reflections, resulting in dry and directdialogue. As you turn the parameter counter-clockwise you will hear more reverb reduction.
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How do you remove reverb from your audio? Got any tips you’d like to share? Let us know in the comments below.