We shot a short film about not judging people by how they look. We have a wonderful cast of actors and a great location but we couldn't turn off all of the refrigerators in the deli and so now we have this constant noise in the background. Any advice on how to get rid of it? I edit with Adobe Premiere Pro. I heard about a plugin that allows you to sample the noise you want to get rid of and then it takes it out. Is there a plugin like that for Adobe Premiere Pro or do I need to use another program to get it done? It's a great film with a wonderful message and I need to find a way to get rid of that background noise. Thank you.
Post-Production : How do I Get Rid of Loud Refrigeration Noise In Film? by Michael Gier
How do I Get Rid of Loud Refrigeration Noise In Film?
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If you're on Creative Cloud, you should have access to Adobe Audition. Download it. Once it's installed open Premiere. Right click on the track and choose Edit Clip in Adobe Audition. Listen to the clip and find a place where only the fridge noise plays. Use the I-Bar tool to select a few seconds of that sound sample. Choose Effects> Noise Reduction/Restoration> Capture Noise Print (or try Shift+P) Click Okay to the next box. Choose Edit> Select> Select All to chose the entire clip. Choose Effects> Noise Reduction.Restoration> Noise Reduction (process). Play with the controls and see if you can fix it. I highly suggest making a copy of the clip you want to fix outside your current cut to experiment with first. Unfortunately, as you clean up the rumble, the same values are going to come out of your dialogue too. You might be better off doing ADR work with your actors in a quiet space, or they could wind up sounding very tinny. Good luck.
Thanks David. I'll give it a try. I haven't used Audition yet but hopefully it'll be easy to do if I follow the help you gave.
You might also look for someone running Protools that has iZotope RX-4. I have tried using EQ to get rid of refrigerator noise and the frequency cut across too wide a spectrum in my case. The option for me was RX-4, ADR, or re-shoot. The RX-4 worked miracles.
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In the future, make sure that while you're on location, your sound mixer gets you about 30 seconds of "room tone" (30 seconds of nothing but the sounds of the diner - including those offending refrigerators). Then, you can use that to smooth the sound in post. Alternatively, have a PA whose only job is to unplug those things before a take and plug 'em right back in on, "cut." My guess is, if they're that loud, you're going to have to ADR.
Always, always get room tone.
My name is Andrew Macht, I am a dialogue editor who works in pro tools, do you have a sample of the offensive sound?
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Thank you for the suggestions and the willingness to help. I found someone who is doing the post-production sound work and he's been able to get everything sounding good. We do have to do a little ADR but thankfully not much.
good to hear
Do you have a few seconds of sound with JUST the refrigerator noise? i.e, no overlapping dialogue. If so, you might be able to isolate and dramatically reduce/get rid of the frequency by using a Third Party program called "Audacity". Best of all, it's free.