

For example, let’s say in your initial selection, you had a little piece of the noise still remaining over here outside the muted section. That sounds pretty good, but we can make some further adjustments. Just like that, the background ambience you copied is pasted at the playhead location and it covers that muted section.

Next, move your play head right before the muted audio and in the edit menu, you will choose paste as connected clip. Now I will copy that section by pressing command C. Now the key is, you want to drag out a little bit more than the initial selection that you muted. So I’m going to fix this by grabbing a piece of ambience from this portion of the clip by dragging out a range. With the audio completely removed, we’ve also removed the background ambience and it sounds unnatural. But as you’ll hear, this presents a problem. Just like that, the sound is knocked out. Now to disable that noise, I’m going to press the v key. So here’s where the noise happens, so I’ll just play it. This is opposed to moving into another clip when you don’t see the range tool. You’ll know you are in audio component mode when you move your pointer into the wave form and you’ll see a range tool icon.

Holding down to option key, double click right on the wave form. A better way to edit out the unwanted sound is to open audio components, where you can do surgical audio removal plus there are some additional benefits. And it works but it’s not the most flexible method of removing noise as you will see in a moment. Now you could take care of the noise using a traditional key frame method, holding down the R Key and drag across the noise and drag the volume down and there you have it. And in this particular shot, with the lead character, there is a noise that happens about here. I have two characters discussing some extreme sports.

Here’s a short film I shot last summer called “Second Impressions”. In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to surgically remove unwanted audio from your dialogue track. As video editors we often need to deal with audio that’s less than ideal. Welcome to Final Cut Pro X in under 5 minutes.
