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Use Adobe Audition’s Reduce Noise function to quickly fix audio and send it back to Premiere Pro. Here’s how!

A common problem for video editors is having to deal with noisy audio in your edits. Maybe the shoot was shot “run and gun” style and the audio came from an on-camera mic. Perhaps, there was a noisy element in the room (air conditioner, refirdgerator hum). Whatever the case, noisy audio can kill the production value of your project. It’s distracting and makes any production look amateurish and low-budget. Although there are a variety of post-production tools you can use in an attempt to fix extra noise in your audio, Adobe Audition is a useful choice for for Premiere Pro editors. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to roundtrip your audio files over to Adobe Audition fornoise reduction – a big timesaver for Premiere Pro editors!

Noise Reduction in Premiere & Audition

In Premiere Pro, select the clip in the Sequence right click and select “edit in Audition”.

Audition will launch, and now we can remove the background noise.

Click and drag on the waveform to select several seconds of background noise (more is better) where no one is talking.

Select Effects> Noise Reduction > Noise Reduction (process).

Click “Capture Noise Print”and then “Select entire file” to reduce the noise for the entire clip.

Check “Output Noise Only” and and drag the “Reduce by” Slider until you just hear a mosquito like noise and not the audio. Make sure you uncheck “Output Noise Only” before you click Apply. If you over reduce the noise it will start to distort the good audio as well.

I generally up the Precision Factor to 10 or more, it cleans up the sound a bit. I suggest playing the clip, dragging the sliders and listening to the results. Now, click Apply and the noise reduction is applied.

For more on the Advanced Option read the Adobe Help.

Save in Audition, then use the shortcut Command + Tab on a Mac (Alt + Tab on a PC) back to Premiere Pro .

The audio in Premiere Pro is now called “Extracted” and replaces the original of the clip.

If you decide later that you want to use the original audio in your Premiere Pro project, you can you Match Frame with “Replace with Clip”. It’s also helpful to duplicate the sequence before you send to Audition to make it easier to revert back to your original sequence.

What tools do you use to cleanup your audio in post production?
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Integrate Adobe Audition into your post production workflow! Utilize Audition’s powerful tools for fixing common audio problems like background noise, hum, clipping, clicks and pops.

Adobe Audition can quickly clean up audio and fix problems that Premiere Pro cannot. In this post we cover common audio problems that you may encounter in your video editing and post production – and how to address these issues using the tools within Adobe Audition.

If you’re looking for tips on a Premiere Pro to Audition workflow, check out my previous posts on roundtripping your video editing clips and sequences into Audition and back to Premiere.

Noise Reduction in Audition

Adobe Audition has powerful noise reduction tools that be accessed in the Waveform Editor. If you are in a Multitrack Session, double click on a track to go into the Waveform Editor.

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Click and drag to select several seconds of background/ambient only sound. The more time you have to sample the better your results will be. Make sure you do not select any audio with voices or other noises!

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Go to Effects > Noise Reduction (process). Click “Capture Noise Print” and then “Select Entire File”.

Click “Noise Only” to hear what you are removing (deselect it before you click apply). Click the green button on & off to toggle the effect as you adjust the “Noise Reduction” & “Reduce by” sliders.

If you prefer shortcuts, use Shift +P to save a noise print and CMD/CNTRL/Shift + P to open the “Noise Reduction” Effect. I suggest making shortcuts for effects you commonly use (do this by accessing the shortcut editor in the menu bar, Edit >Keyboard Shortcuts).

Adaptive Noise Reduction

Adaptive Noise Reduction automatically learns what noise is, as long as you have background noise before people start speaking. To take advantage of this tool, it is a good habit to always record 4-5 seconds of audio before your talent starts speaking.

In Adobe Audition, you can also combine Adaptive Noise Redution with other effects in the Effects Rack (which you can’t do with standard Noise Reduction). It is part of several presets like “Clean up and Level Voice-Over” that can help you get started if you are new to audio effects.

Remove Hum in Audition

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This Adobe Audition effect comes in handy if you are doing a lot of location filming where you can’t control the production environment.

Use this to remove AC hum (lights, power lines, electronics). In my example I was picking up hum from an Xbox 360 in the room.

Go to Effects > Noise Reduction/Restoration > Dehummer. Select your preset based on country. I’m in the states so I picked 60Hz.

Auto Heal & Spot Healing

You can use Auto Heal & the Spot Healing Brush to remove clicks, pops, and other short noises you want to remove from your audio.

Zoom in by pressing the plus key and select the pop. Right click and select “Auto Heal” (Comm/Control + U).

You can also paint a selection with the spot healing brush(B) by dragging over the area to fix in the “Spectral Frequency” display.

Using the Diagnostic Panel

Access the Diagnostics panel in Audition by choosing Window > Diagnostics from the menu bar. The powerful diagnostic panel provides tools to fix clipping, clicks and pops in your audio.

The Declipper is handy for repairing clipped audio. Select the DeClipper Effect in the Diagnostic panel. Click Scan and your clipping areas will be listed. Select a listed problem to move to it in the waveform.

You can fix each one at a time or click Repair All.

Note: Depending on your audio it may still appear clipped, as Audition works in 32 bit floating point. Decrease the amplitude or use Normalize to see that the audio isn’t actually clipped. I have had varied results with the DeClicker, so if it dozen’t fix your issues, you the manual method mentioned above using Auto Heal & Spot Healing Brush.

Before:

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After:

Adobe Premiere Edit Audio In Audition

Utilize a Premiere to Audition workflow to take advantage of these great audio tools in your video editing projects. For more details on working with audio in Adobe Audition see Adobe Help.