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Audio Cleaning program
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Posted by: Sops
Does anyone know of a good program to clean up audio? I'm editing a video and the audio track it sort of staticy, since it was captured from a plain camcorder (and not a good one at that). I'm hoping to make the audio sound clean. Any one know of any audio editing programs that can do that? If it makes any differnence, i'll be editing the movie in adobe premiere.
Posted by: jungles_mcbeef
Have you used Cool Edit Pro? I have an old version of that and use it quite a lot for cleaning up audio (gets rid of clicks and pops, hiss etc), but it does muffle the sound a little bit, depends how crisp you want it. I definitely recommend you check it out though.
Posted by: AK47
I use a host of audio editing programs... two are must haves in my opinion.
Sound Forge 6.0 is my all around favorite. Chopping tracks up, minor equalizer work, and a host of others.... this is what this program excells in. VERY friendly to use and a very speedy program to use (doesnt take forever to perform operations). Very good stuff.
Ray Gun 2.0 is my second favorite. It's a small program that I use for my vinyl transfering. Noise reduction, Click reducion, treble, bass and stereo effects are all included here. Personally, I think this is the easiest way to do noise reduction and the results are impressive. Also, adding a little bit of the program's "stereo" effect can improve a poor audience concert recording alot.
One more-
The afore mentioned Cool Edit Pro. This is what I use for multitrack work. Next to Ray Gun, this program features the best noisereduction techniques that I've seen. Using the multitrack feature to create sampler tracks or improve the quality of live performances (multitracking a single track... mixxing and adding delay on some tracks to enhance vocals, keyboards, guitar,etc... it works VERY well).
So, there are my favorite programs. Although I havent heard the audio that you want to clean up, you described it as staticy, so I would think you're in the market for some minor noise/pop&click reduction. RayGun or CoolEdit will work wonders for you.
If you could (and want to)... contact me via pm and you could send me a clip of the audio. Just a minute or two in mp3 or .shn. I could take the sample and try to fix it up the best I can just to show you what kind of results you could get.
Posted by: jungles_mcbeef
AK47, are Sound Forge and Ray Gun shareware? You got me keen for them.
Posted by: AK47
Nah, unfortunately neither is shareware and neither is particularly cheap.
You can download demos though:
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.c...uct.asp?PID=668
Thats the link for Sound Forge
And:
http://www.arboretum.com/products/p...y_gun_main.html
There is the url for Ray Gun.
Check out the demos for both.
Ray Gun sells for $119 and Sound Forge starts at $399.95
Not cheap at all, but after using them, I cant live without them.
Posted by: BACONHEDDv6.6.6
I've tried all of the above,and they're ok,but here are my favourite choices:
-Steinberg "Denoiser" (Direct-X plugin for audio hosts) *quick+excellent qual
-Alogorithmic's "Sound Laundry" (Standalone real time) *quick+good qual
-Dartpro 32 Restoration (Standalone,no realtime) *little slow,but outta this world Denoising/Hissing !!!!!!! I'm serious-I challenge anyone to show me better cleaning quality! Cons: Big learning curve/understanding of how filters work,how chaining filters together will work/sound 
-Steinberg "Clean!" (Standalone) *medium speed+real time previewing+good-->excellent qual
Of course,you should extract the audio track from your vidcam to a separate audio track from the video,and save to hard drive.Then-clean it up and resave it.THEN load it into "Premiere" as your audio track.If you don't know how to get the audio saved to a separate,independent wave,then I'd say use "Soundforge" with a Direct-X audio cleaning plugin,-because it will load video too.Then just edit the wave,and resave the whole *video* (with integrated sound) back to disk,prepped and ready for Premiere.I'm not that familiar with Premiere,maybe it WILL allow audio plugins/processing access from within? If it does,-that may be the easiest route if you're used to using it...
Hope this helps. 
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