Remove clicks and pops in my recoding (Final Cut)

[willybNL]

I tryed to play somewhat around with the Audio filters in Final Cut, but what I really can't find (probably due to a missing manual about the filters although I seem to have everything) is a filter that is able to filterout some
clicks and pops my camcorder recorded when i moved the statief (that thing you put the camera on).

Of course, I could search all these clicks (which are all the same in noise), but that would be an endless job... Something that would kill that frequency (but that is as smart as knowing what that frequency is) would help me a lot.

How do you remove clicks and pops?

 

[diehardmacfan]

do you have final cut studio

if you do you can use soundtrack pro to remove the clicks and pops

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/soundtrackpro/

visit that websight and click on the third demo video thats entitled "audio restoration"

it will show you how to remove clicks and pops using soundtrack pro 2

 

[ezekielrage_99]

Soundtrack should do the removal of cracks and pops pretty easily, I recently finished a project where I had to remove the hum of an air conditioner unit from a video and Soundtrack removed to hum pretty well, although it did take some stuffing around to get a good result.

 

[willybNL]

do you have final cut studio

if you do you can use soundtrack pro to remove the clicks and pops

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/soundtrackpro/

visit that websight and click on the third demo video thats entitled "audio restoration"

it will show you how to remove clicks and pops using soundtrack pro 2

mmm... FCE has sound track, but not that clicks and pops option. But it looks exactly for what i'm searching.

It's not just anywhere in the wild as plugin?

p.s. Smootcam from FCS2... noticed it was in Shake 4.0 too... any other plugins that could do the same for FCE?

 

[willybNL]

mmm... FCE has sound track, but not that clicks and pops option. But it looks exactly for what i'm searching.

It's not just anywhere in the wild as plugin?

p.s. Smootcam from FCS2... noticed it was in Shake 4.0 too... any other plugins that could do the same for FCE?

So nobody any idea what I can do if I didn't have the Pro version?
(pretty bad of apple to not include something so important in the express version, makes it almost useless for audio).

 

[huntercr]

So nobody any idea what I can do if I didn't have the Pro version?
(pretty bad of apple to not include something so important in the express version, makes it almost useless for audio).

It's not so bad.. get creative. If it's a pop with no audio around it, simply drop the volume at the moment of the pop. It's a cheap hack that works when there is multi track audio and the track with the pop is not "busy":

Open up the audio track in FCE find you first "pop" and zoom in really far so that the only thing you see is the pop. Now add a marker on the timeline and then add another slightly to the left of the peak of the pop. This should give you 3 points to work with and should allow you to drag down the 3rd point all the way to -4000 db ( ok don't really drop that low... like -32 makes your point) then move the middle point so that you get a nice curve that is sharp. Then do the opposite thing after the pop so that you almost have a parabola. Depending on how the pop actually sounds you can bring up the volume back faster after the pop... once the "attack" of the noise is done, the remainder of the sound won't be very annoying.

You're basically trading a really annoying pop for less annoying dead air
Professional people might think this is a terrible hack because its so obvious and amateur, but it worked for me, and like I said if you have multi track audio, you may be able to cover that up completely.

if you don't have multi track audio but have background noise in the scene it will make the dead air more obvious. I have clipped out a second or two of background noise from a naturally quiet part of the scene before and overlayed that at a lower volume and then ramping up slowly to normal volume and then down again. This can work in short segments, but only if you have ambient hums etc...

Yes these are cheap hacks, but get creative. You might find you can solv your problems with the tools you have.

 

[willybNL]

It's not so bad.. get creative. If it's a pop with no audio around it, simply drop the volume at the moment of the pop. It's a cheap hack that works when there is multi track audio and the track with the pop is not "busy":

Open up the audio track in FCE find you first "pop" and zoom in really far so that the only thing you see is the pop. Now add a marker on the timeline and then add another slightly to the left of the peak of the pop. This should give you 3 points to work with and should allow you to drag down the 3rd point all the way to -4000 db ( ok don't really drop that low... like -32 makes your point) then move the middle point so that you get a nice curve that is sharp. Then do the opposite thing after the pop so that you almost have a parabola. Depending on how the pop actually sounds you can bring up the volume back faster after the pop... once the "attack" of the noise is done, the remainder of the sound won't be very annoying.

You're basically trading a really annoying pop for less annoying dead air
Professional people might think this is a terrible hack because its so obvious and amateur, but it worked for me, and like I said if you have multi track audio, you may be able to cover that up completely.

if you don't have multi track audio but have background noise in the scene it will make the dead air more obvious. I have clipped out a second or two of background noise from a naturally quiet part of the scene before and overlayed that at a lower volume and then ramping up slowly to normal volume and then down again. This can work in short segments, but only if you have ambient hums etc...

Yes these are cheap hacks, but get creative. You might find you can solv your problems with the tools you have.

Sorry, didn't spend 300 euro's for 'amature' hacks... I guess you might have expected that something so simple is in the package (at least: if I look at competitors it's in there). So i'm thinking of buying something else and selling this one.

 

[cdarlington1]

Professional Training Needed...

Sorry, didn't spend 300 euro's for 'amature' hacks... I guess you might have expected that something so simple is in the package (at least: if I look at competitors it's in there). So i'm thinking of buying something else and selling this one.

The best thing you could do is have a professional record your audio then you wouldn't have to deal with it in post-production. I know of no filters that will take pops out of your audio track...poor recording...poor output...plain and simple. I have been a film editor for 16 years and I can tell you that the method described above that you think is "amature" is in fact a tried and true method. Get some training!