Background coughs, sneezes, or car horns sounding from afar are off screen noises that any cameraperson can do without but can do little to prevent. That's where you, as the trusty video editor, come in to reduce their impact. In this task, you will remove an isolated cough from a backing audio track, and replace the deleted sound area with a sympathetic copy and paste.
Get rid of nasty coughs by following these steps:
Select the Project panel, and import the file
Cough_Clip.avi
from theVideo
folder of this project, on your designated video drive.Create a new sequence. Don't worry about the settings, but rename it
Cough Removal
.Drag-and-drop the
Cough_Clip.avi
file from the Project panel onto Video 1, and press the backslash key to zoom the Timeline to the duration of this clip.Dial open the Audio 1 track using the small triangle, then expand the track by placing the mouse cursor under the bottom line of the Audio 1 header so that it...