Any tips for removing audible camera clicks?
 

Due to limited space, just filmed an event side-by-side with a photographer, was courteous and showed what was happening each time the camera shutter "clicked" to the audio as I ran the footage into FCP. But they didn't make an effort to re-locate. Audio was recorded from the on-board camera (VX2100). Is there a quick way to detect and remove the "clicks" in SoundTrack Pro?

I know how to manually remove each click directly in FCP with audio levels, but due to the size of this project and the agreed terms of the project (post-production audio cleanup is not included at the agreed on price) I won't be doing that.

I'm asking if it's a quick fix only as a courtesy to try and clean things up, but again, if it requires manual click-by-click cleanup, that won't happen.

Final Cut Studio 3

Thanks

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Hey Grant

Sorry for the obvious question but did you try the Analysis tools yet? Clicks and Pops perhaps?

Best
Andy

If the above does not help, try taking a noise print on the section where clicks happen then remove the noise from the rest of the clip.

1. Process>Noise reduction> Set noise print > select the section that contains noise to be removed
2. Select rest of the clip
3. Process >Noise reduction> Reduce Noise

This is very easy once you get the hang of it, and usually works like a charm, unless the frequency of a noise is too close to what you don't want to alter.

So it is important to try to get as pure a noise print as possible (just the noise you want to eliminate).

@Gabor

Thanks for that detailed reply. It does seem to work, but still needs lots of manual tweaking. Something to spend more time working with for sure and practicing. I rarely use STP, so didn't know it had these tools, but knew it was a power-house for audio edits, and knew someone here could offer advice in getting me in the right direction.

Thanks

Your best bet would be to post this in the "All things audio" section as the audio-specialists will be there and could advise you further. There may also be other tools you could use (such as Peak, SoundSoap etc) that could do the job faster/better than STP. Either way chances are you'll get more detailed and varied answers there.