- [Instructor] Hey everybody,
this is Roberto Blake of RobertoBlake.com,
helping you create something awesome today.
Welcome to an Adobe Audition tutorial.
I don't think I've actually done one of these here
on the channel before.
I think I might have dabbled in this
with some Adobe Premiere tutorials for video editing,
but today I'm gonna show you how
to do noise print capture and noise reduction
in Adobe Audition so you can make your audio files
sound a lot better for your videos.
I recently did an interview in San Diego
outdoors with my friend Sunny Lenarduzzi.
If you look over here, I'll show you guys real quick.
So you guys can see that we're outside.
We're in San Diego.
Gorgeous weather,
but that's not the best conditions for audio.
So, what I had to do was
I had to clean this up in Adobe Audition.
I've already done that,
but I'm gonna show you guys the process for that.
So, yeah we've got some noise here
that we really want to get rid of
'cause it's noisy outside.
- [Male Voice] That's full consultant.
- [Female Voice] Thank you.
And I did social media consulting
and video marketing consulting for about five years.
Didn't talk about it.
- [Instructor] So it's not bad, but it's not great.
I mean, look at that.
We don't want noise like that.
We've got a lot of that here in the beginning.
So, that's not what we want.
That's not ideal,
but because this is the level
of noise that's more like persistent in the video,
I want to find a place in the video
where we have a good representation
of the typing noise we want to eliminate.
So I want to find as much of it as possible.
I wanna find like a long stretch of that if I can,
and sometimes toward the end is a little bit better.
So we're just going to scrub through our footage.
We're gonna find a long stretch of that background noise,
and I'm going to capture that.
So, I'm going to right click here
and click Capture Noise Print.
You could also use Shift + P.
So I've captured that.
I'm going to select all.
And you can use Control + Shift + P
and Command if you're on the Mac,
or you can go here to Effects, Noise Reduction,
Noise Reduction Process.
So now what this is going to do is
I can move these sliders and it will adjust that noise.
So I can see what's going on.
- [Male Voice] But, guys, as always,
thank you so much for watching,
and remember go out there
and create something awesome today.
- [Instructor] So, that actually sounds pretty good.
Now, this won't be the default settings.
This is kind of what I picked out here.
Usually, it'll wanna reduce it by like 90%,
and that's going to not always sound great.
So, to give you an example.
I'm gonna pick another part of the clip.
- [Female Voice] Through my business as a consultant
for a bunch of different companies...
- [Male Voice] A successful consultant.
- [Female Voice] Thank you.
And I did social media consulting...
- [Instructor] Again, not bad, but it can sound better
if we reduce the power of this effect a bit.
So, if I scroll back ...
(choppy recording plays)
- [Female Voice] So, focus on frequently asked questions.
How I grew my business, I was a consultant
for a bunch of different companies...
- [Male Voice] A successful consultant.
- [Female Voice] Thank you.
And I did social media consult...
- [Instructor] So it actually sounds pretty good.
So we're gonna hit apply,
and that's going to apply this noise reduction,
and our audio is gonna sound a lot better.
- [Female Voice] For a bunch of different companies...
- [Male Voice] A successful consultant.
- [Female Voice] Thank you.
And I did social media consulting
and video marketing consulting for about five years.
Didn't talk about it.
I had a lot of clients
and I needed to figure out how to answer their questions
and not have to spend my time on the phone
or in meetings.
So I started making video tutorials
and I made one and posted it to YouTube.
- [Instructor] So you can see that sounds really good.
That's a good representation of the audio here,
especially for being outdoors.
It's better than most of you might be used to.
The end result is a video
that has pretty decent audio
despite being shot outdoors.
- Yey.
- You guys all know Sunny.
She is the founder of be your own boss.
- Be your own boss.
- And she's gonna teach us how to grow a business
on YouTube. - I am.
- Like a boss.
(laughing)
- [Instructor] So guys, that worked out really well.
Ultimately it didn't take long
and you can do the same noise reduction process here
for your videos if you're filming outdoors
where it's a little noisy in the background,
you got some wind coming through
and it makes a huge difference
in the outcome of your audio
and makes it feel a little better,
a little bit more professional
and easier for your audience to hear clearly
what is going on
Now, what also helps with this is having good Hardware.
I will link down to my YouTube kit
and the audio gear that I'm using in the description
so that you guys can use it.
It is pretty affordable overall
and even while doing this tutorial,
I'm doing it on an Audio-Technica $60 condenser microphone.
So that's what I'm using here
for my tutorial and live stream setup,
and you guys have seen that the audio quality
has been really good on that.
Don't think that you need wildly outrageous gear
to get this done,
but I recommend Adobe Audition software
the same way I recommend Premier Pro,
because it's what I use
and you can see the benefits of the Adobe ecosystem
and what it allows you to do here,
working between programs seamlessly.
I really like that
that's why I use it.
I like that I can do After Effects stuff
over here in Premier and Photoshop
and use all of my other programs
and so that's where I think the real value is.
If you guys have questions
or you want to see other tutorials from me,
definitely let me know in the comments section.
I like doing tutorials like this
and I just need to know what would help you guys the most.
Would you like to see more Adobe Audition tutorials
for handling noise reduction,
or do you want to see my workflow
for the Create Something Awesome Today podcast?
you can see here it's a little different
than what I typically do in Adobe Audition
and so I'd like to share that with you.
If you want to check out the podcast
then go to soundcloud.com/RobertoBlake2
or RobertoBlake.com/iTunes
to check out the Create Something Awesome Today podcast.
If there are other Adobe tutorials
that you guys would be interested in,
it doesn't have to be video editing or Premiere Pro,
I'd love to maybe get back into doing some stuff,
go back to my roots in Photoshop,
share some of that stuff with you guys,
if it's something I haven't done already.
Maybe some cool stuff there
or maybe a Basics or getting started
with Adobe After Effects.
Let me know what you guys are most interested in seeing
in the comments section.
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Check out the other awesome stuff on the channel.
Also links to all my audio gear in the description below.
As always you guys thanks so much for watching
and don't forget, create something awesome today.
Take care.