Whether you are videotaping a wedding, or recording an interview, your audio should be as clean and free of distractions as possible. Sounds such as coughing, footsteps, and door slams can be distracting to the listener and detract from the professionalism of your production. With Sony Sound Forge Pro 10, you can remove such distractions from your recordings to improve the overall quality of your final product.
Instructions
Removing a noise
1. Open your audio file in Sound Forge Pro 10. With the waveform displayed in the data window, play the file to locate the sound you wish to remove. Select the sound by dragging the mouse across the sound wave.
2. To completely remove the audio, click the Insert Menu, then choose Silence. In place of the noise, there will be silence. In many cases, this will be sufficient.
3. To replace the noise with other ambient audio, select a section of natural sound by highlighting it with your mouse, then under the Edit menu, choose Copy. Once again, select the noise you wish to remove, and choose Edit, then Paste. Your ambient sound will replace the noise.
Remove regular noise
4. To remove noise that occurs sporadically throughout your recording, use Noise Gate. Under the Effects menu, choose Noise Gate. From the Preset menu, select Noise Gate 1 and preview the file. If not enough noise is removed, decrease the Threshold amount. If too much sound is removed, increase the Threshold amount.
5. If you wish to remove a regular noise pattern such as a hiss or hum from a recording, use Noise Reduction. Under the Tools menu, select Noise Reduction.
6. Select a one-second section of noise by dragging the mouse across the waveform to highlight the sound wave. In the Noise Reduction dialog, click the Capture Noiseprint box, then hit Preview.
7. Hit OK to apply the changes to your file. You will immediately hear the difference.
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