Electrical hum in background- How best to remove?

jgaertner1@earthlink.net

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Sep 02, 2011 15:24

Hello, I need to film regularly in my workshop. The land lord has 220V 3 Phase Metal Halid lights that hum like crazy. When I film, I get the back ground hum on all my tape. I use UHF wireless mics, turn off as many lights as not needed but its still there.

How does one remove certain frequency noise with PD 8? I have tried the Noise Correction feature but it just makes the audi muddy. Is there any way to do it with software?

Does any of the newer versions of PD have a feature like a graphics equalizer?

Thanks

BarryTheCrab

Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Nov 06, 2008 22:18 Messages: 6240 Offline

Sep 03, 2011 09:37

PD 9 has WAVE Editor, which can do a better job of cleaning audio.
WAVE Editor also takes VST plug-ins, which can do tons of things to sound.
Audacity freeware also is quite good.
You may never get your audio the way you want, though, and I can't stress enough to budding video Masters, sound is EXTREMELY important, and lousy sound will drive a viewer away almost as fast as lousy video quality. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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jgaertner1@earthlink.net

Newbie Joined: Oct 08, 2010 10:15 Messages: 40 Offline

Sep 03, 2011 09:44

Thanks, I did just download and install PD 9, to be able to use the WAVE editor after reading up about it. If I could cut the noise in 1/2, that would be fine. Compared to other educational DVDs I have seen, our are pretty good.

I will report what I find out.

John

BarryTheCrab

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Sep 03, 2011 09:56

Google "VST" also, there are many free ones. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
Nvidia GTX 960(4GB)/16GB DDR3/
Canon Vixia HV30/HF-M40/HF-M41/HF-G20/Olympus E-PL5.
Tape capture using 6 VCR, TBC-1000, Elite BVP4+, Sony D8 camcorder with TBC.
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jgaertner1@earthlink.net

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Sep 05, 2011 13:27

Here is an update... I downloaded PD9 and ALL of its patches up through build 2930 and this is a real improvement. There is software for editing audio and for removing noise, as well as a graphics equalizer. I would recommend that anyone facing the same background noise issues I am facing upgrade to PD 9.

Thanks.

John Gaertner

CubbyHouseFilms

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne, Australia Joined: Jul 14, 2009 04:23 Messages: 2208 Offline

Sep 06, 2011 02:28

Hi John

Welcome to the forum

Thank you for your follow up.

Further to what Barry has said the wave editor in PD9 is indeed very good.

However the AUDACITY (Google it) of Barry due to his polite manner might of prevented him from revealing another excellent sound editor that is free, that, unfortunately I cannot mention.

Happy editing

Happing editing

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Neil
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BarryTheCrab

Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Nov 06, 2008 22:18 Messages: 6240 Offline

Sep 06, 2011 06:06

Cubster,
I did not know the program was unmentionable, so if you re-read, you'll see I did! HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
Nvidia GTX 960(4GB)/16GB DDR3/
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Tape capture using 6 VCR, TBC-1000, Elite BVP4+, Sony D8 camcorder with TBC.
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CubbyHouseFilms

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne, Australia Joined: Jul 14, 2009 04:23 Messages: 2208 Offline

Sep 06, 2011 06:30

Oops! So you did - I think I need glasses on my windows :

Happing editing

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Neil
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PD3.5, 5, 6 & 7. Computer: Dell Dimension 5150, Intel Pen. 2.80 GHz, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT 256MB, Windows XP Pro!!
PD8 Ultra v3022. Computer: Dell Studio 1747, Intel, i7 Q740 1.73 GHz, 8GB RAM, ATI Mob. Radeon HD 560v 1GB, Windows 7 Ult. 64
PD10 Ultra v2023. Computer: HP Pavilion dv7, Intel, i7 2630 2.00 GHz, 8GB RAM, ATI Mob. Radeon HD 6770 2GB, Windows 7 Pre. 64
PD12 Ultra v2930. Computer: HP Pavilion dv7, Intel, i7 2630 2.00 GHz, 8GB RAM, ATI Mob. Radeon HD 6770 2GB, Windows 7 Pre. 64
PD13 Ultim v3516. Computer: HP Pavilion dv7, Intel, i7 2630 2.00 GHz, 8GB RAM, ATI Mob. Radeon HD 6770 2GB, Windows 7 Pre. 64
PD16 Live v2101 Computer: HP Pavilion dv7, Intel, i7 2630 2.00 GHz, 16GB RAM, ATI Mob.Radeon HD 6770 2GB, Windows 7 Pre. 64
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