How to Remove Background Noise From Audio

You can have the best visuals in the world, but if your video has poor or distracting audio, it will be difficult for your viewers to enjoy it as you intended. If you notice your video has excess background noise, this helpful video will show you how to remove it.

Coming to you from Mike Russell, this fantastic video will show you how to remove background noise from your videos. This is a very common issue; I am sure you have watched a video with high background noise before and know how distracting it can be. Luckily, it is not particularly hard to reduce background noise with a little work, though you can rarely remove it entirely. The best advice is to do your best to get proper audio at the time of capture. Audio is a lot like getting exposure correct: modern software can certainly do some impressive things, but you will get the best results if you get the best data to start with. Check out the video above for the full rundown. 

And if you want to continue to learn about video editing, check out "Introduction to Adobe Premiere: A Video Editing Tutorial With Lee Morris!"

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Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based portrait, events, and landscape photographer. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Music Composition. He is also an avid equestrian.

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This is super helpful! I love Mike's stuff!

DeReverb is too nasty. Too much comb filtering. You're not fixing that in the mix. You just need to record your audio right.