So basically my audio is shit and I panicked so hard. The speaking voice is so low that I could barely hear and if I turn it up, the noise gets louder and interrupts the voice. I still don’t know if it’s something wrong with the microphone or the camera. I checked the audio when we were shooting and it was not that bad. Anyways, I might check with my equipment but that can wait. I can’t shoot the whole thing again because she’s quite busy at the moment with her exams and stuff and it’s close to the due date of this assignment. I barely knew how to use Audition but I tried it this time. I’ve only used it to amplify the volume of the audio before and I’ve never gotten into other techniques. So I went to Lynda and searched audition and THANK GOD they’ve got exactly what I needed which is the tutorial on how to reduce noise with a certain frequency (ignore all the tabs that I’ve opened haha).
After watching the tutorial I tried to do it with my audio. And here’s the before and after. There’s a huge different between the clips and the annoying noise is almost completely gone. But due to the changes that I’ve made, the original voice or tone of the interviewee has been altered slightly. It sounds a bit muffled and like she’s speaking in a big room rather than a living room. but that’s the best I could do for a beginner to Audition.
And here’s the process of my editing.
I select a part in which there’s only the noise. And go to Effects, Noise Reduction.
Set it on Defult and click Capture Noice Print.
And start sliding the buttons on Noise Redction and Reduce By. Until the noise is gone or to the lowest. And then go to Advanced. Set Spectural Decay rate to really low to make the sounds less decayed so it would sound like it’s in an regular space. And then click apply.
I figure out that the noise is the red vertical lines that are above the range of speaking voice and start to do the same with them like the last step and try to make them disappear.
I repeat the step for a couple of times so all of the vertical red lines are gone.
This is the final look of the audio. The vertical red lines above the speaking range are gone and the clip sounds 10 times better than the original one. The speaking voice is now loud and clear. Forgot to mention, before noise reduction I amplified the audio by 10dB so it’s easier for me to see the differences between sounds.