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September 6, 2017
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Fixing Audio Recorded from a DSLR Camera

  • September 6, 2017
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How, if there is a way, can I fix an echo-y room audio recording?! I recorded video off of a DSLR camera and the audio was recorded separately, but I have somehow lost the audio so I am trying to salvage the video recordings by using the audio recorded from the back of the camera. Is there ANY WAY to fix this?! Thank you!

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Correct answer John Blackfire Films Ltd

There is deverberate from Acon Digital https://acondigital.com/products/deverberate/ which is really impressive for removing reverb from the track, but it's still a rescue, not a fix.

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John Blackfire Films Ltd
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September 15, 2018

Well, like I said, it's a rescue, not a fix. But in real world application, if you have some speech with too much reverb it's an effective tool for restoring it to a more usable level. It may be a bit smoke and mirrors but clients don't give a crap about scientific accuracy, they just want results, and this tool can provide results.

John Blackfire Films Ltd
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September 15, 2018

There is deverberate from Acon Digital https://acondigital.com/products/deverberate/ which is really impressive for removing reverb from the track, but it's still a rescue, not a fix.

SteveG_AudioMasters_
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September 15, 2018

John_Sac9  wrote

There is deverberate from Acon Digital https://acondigital.com/products/deverberate/ which is really impressive for removing reverb from the track, but it's still a rescue, not a fix.

I'm afraid that I find their claims to be rather exaggerated. Especially this one:

"The Early Reflections Filter uses sophisticated statistical methods to estimate the so called impulse response of the early reflections. The impulse response is then utilized to calculate an inverse filter that cancels out the effect of the early reflections."

The whole point of an impulse response is that it's an accurate representation of a room's characteristics, and all rooms have a unique impulse response, dependent entirely on the relative positions of the source and receiver. You simply cannot create a 'statistical' version of one and expect to have even a shred of accuracy about it! There are lies, damned lies, and then statistics...

New Participant
August 9, 2018

Hello,

There is a company called Audionamix that creates many products for fixing bad audio. I will recommend checking out a product called Instant Dialogue Cleaner which is a plug-in that should work with Adobe Audition. It basically uses an algorithm to preserve speech as much as possible and can save some poor recordings. You can check out their stuff on their website or watch the Instant Dialogue Cleaner Demo video.

SteveG_AudioMasters_
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Community Expert
August 9, 2018

Original answer stands - you can't use a NR program (and not a particularly good one at that - iZotope's RX will do a better job) to get rid of a room response, which is what the OP was asking about. This is not about cleaning noise away from dialog - which Audition's Adaptive NR will do just as well - but something that is essentially un-fixable in any sort of usable way.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
September 6, 2017

There's some things that you can do in the Essential Sound Panel or with some of the Audio effects, but if you've got a real problem child here, I'd recommend going over to the Audition forum. You can edit PrPro audio directly in Audition, and it's of course got a LOT more tools for the job ...

But really, the Audition forum is where the audio masters hang ... Steve G, some of the others over there are very knowledgeable on this sort of thing.

Neil

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
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November 14, 2017

We might know a thing or two, but unfortunately one of those things is that it's pretty much impossible to fix camera audio recorded at a distance, with unremoveable room tone...

R Neil Haugen
Legend
November 14, 2017

Very true. However, when most of "us" here say that, well ... we're not necessarily the real experts, ya see?

So sending folks over to you-all to get Truth is a lot easier. Besides, some times what's needed isn't getting to 'broadcast quality' ... but just getting sort of understandable. And to get the max of what can be had takes far more real experience in sound than most on this forum have.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...