On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 07:27:19 GMT, Not A Speck Of Cereal wrote:

>As Paul Rubin so eloquently put:
>[] Not A Speck Of Cereal writes:
> [...]
>[] > -- is this common?
>[]
>[] Yes.
>[]
>[] > -- is there any way to avoid this in the future
>[]
>[] Yes, use an external mic.
>[]
>[] (the cam doesn't have
>[] > an external mic input, which I would gladly use)
>[]
>[] Oops, you bought the wrong camera. Sell it on Ebay and buy another one :).
>
>Ack, I was afraid of this (I forgot to add one last question "time to
>upgrade"?)
>
>[] > -- if this is common, does anyone know of a good way to remove the
>[] > noise from the audio while computer editing? (I have Sound Forge and
>[] > other audio tools).
>[]
>[] You can filter some of it out but it's hard to get rid of all of it,
>[] and you will have to constantly tweak the settings for different parts
>[] of the tape. There's no universal "remove motor noise" setting that
>[] works for everything. You might post on rec.video.production for more
>[] specific advice.
>
>Thanks. Even if I upgrade now, I still have 4-5 interviews that cannot
>be re-shot, so I'll have to goof around with notch-filters until I
>find a happy medium, I guess.

Notch filters don't work well, and the Sound Forge
noise-reduction module is expensive - go to
www.syntrillium.com and look at Cool Edit. It is
fairly cheap, well-written and easy to use, and includes
an excellent noise-reduction module (with a good help
file - I use this module often in video work, and it
does truly amazing things...! ;-). With it, you should be
able to remove most or all of the offending noise without
seriously degrading the remaining sound. You can also
"mis-use" it and reduce all kinds of noise the module
is not supposed to work well on (mixing the original track
with noise-reduced tracks using various fft files, I have
been able to remove or reduce busses, jousting matches
[with crowds], fights, etc. and pull up mumbled speech
recorded outdoors from a distance to intelligibility...).
I highly recommend this product!