Removing breathing sounds from video

Kevin-Ward wrote on 8/15/2024, 5:37 AM

Hello. I also posted in the audio cleaner section but I am unsure if that is the correct area for this question. I have a video that was shot on a phone. The issue is that the person holding the phone was breathing so loudly that it can be heard while others are talking. Every video I can find on breath removal seems to be for one person talking into a mic and happens after talking - never when someone else is talking while someone else is breathing. Can this even be done and, if so, what software or techniques should I try? Love editing in Vegas but this seems to be beyond the audio abilities of that program. Am on a PC using W11.

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SP. wrote on 8/15/2024, 6:07 AM

@Kevin-Ward If you get the Sound Forge Pro Suite, you'll also get SpectraLayers Pro, which is made to do clean up recordings like this. Alternatively, like I mentioned in your other thread, you can also try to use the free Ultimate Vocal Remover from https://ultimatevocalremover.com/ and try to isolate the voice with it. I think it offers technically the same AI algorithms that SpectraLayers has (and more).

johnebaker wrote on 8/15/2024, 6:41 AM

@Kevin-Wardi

Which program are you using to try to remove the breathing noise?

I have temporarily closed your first post.

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rraud wrote on 8/15/2024, 10:23 AM

Hi @Kevin-Ward, iZ's RX Advanced has a breath noise reduction tool but RX Advanced is costly, I am not sure if SLP (SpectraLayers Pro) has an 'auto' breath tool.
- Working directly in Sound Forge (or Vegas), you could draw volume envelopes to attenuate breath noises.
- In SF, you could copy a second or so of 'room tone', select the breath noise region and choose 'Edit> Paste Special> Overwrite' (or right-click the selected region and click 'Overwrite')
In any case, the SF Overwrite edit tool will not screw up A/V sync.

xman_charl wrote on 8/22/2024, 11:36 AM

Acon Digital has DE breath thingy...

 

 

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