Video question using a Z9. How can I remove breathing in Post?

[Allen Moss]

I forgot my microphone and I can just hear my breath in quiet moments of the video. Is there an easy way to remove the breathing? Just starting out with video so don't laugh to hard or breath! I'm using DaVinci Resolve in case that matters. Thanks!

 

[NickZ2016]

I forgot my microphone and I can just hear my breath in quiet moments of the video. Is there an easy way to remove the breathing? Just starting out with video so don't laugh to hard or breath! I'm using DaVinci Resolve in case that matters. Thanks!

That's an audio question.

I'm not the best person but go into fairlight in Resolve . Actually before that cut the audio track up. You'll need to unlock it from the video. Cut it into segments. Good vs needing to get rid of breathing. If that makes sense.

If those bad segments only have breathing just try lowering the audio levels. Failing that Fairlight has plenty of more advanced features but you'll do better asking in the Resolve forum on the Blackmagic website.

Of course the real easy trick is to put some music over it -)

 

[NickZ2016]

Follow along with that. I think the first bit should work for you if the breathing isn't over anything you want to keep

 

[Allen Moss]

I forgot my microphone and I can just hear my breath in quiet moments of the video. Is there an easy way to remove the breathing? Just starting out with video so don't laugh to hard or breath! I'm using DaVinci Resolve in case that matters. Thanks!

That's an audio question.

I'm not the best person but go into fairlight in Resolve . Actually before that cut the audio track up. You'll need to unlock it from the video. Cut it into segments. Good vs needing to get rid of breathing. If that makes sense.

If those bad segments only have breathing just try lowering the audio levels. Failing that Fairlight has plenty of more advanced features but you'll do better asking in the Resolve forum on the Blackmagic website.

Of course the real easy trick is to put some music over it -)

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

 

[JasonTheBirder]

I forgot my microphone and I can just hear my breath in quiet moments of the video. Is there an easy way to remove the breathing? Just starting out with video so don't laugh to hard or breath! I'm using DaVinci Resolve in case that matters. Thanks!

I do it manually in Audacity. For example, doing it manually on about ten minutes of footage will take me only a couple of minutes. There are two possibilities:

1. If the silent parts have no other background noise, you can just silence the audio, but make sure to do noise reduction first so it doesn't sound like a silent gap
2. If the silent parts have some constant background noise, you can create a second track, mute the breathing parts and paste some random background noise onto the silent track

You could also create a noise gate if your breathing is quiet enough, but I'm not sure if there's a way to do that in Davinci Resolve itself.

 

[Allen Moss]

I forgot my microphone and I can just hear my breath in quiet moments of the video. Is there an easy way to remove the breathing? Just starting out with video so don't laugh to hard or breath! I'm using DaVinci Resolve in case that matters. Thanks!

I do it manually in Audacity. For example, doing it manually on about ten minutes of footage will take me only a couple of minutes. There are two possibilities:

1. If the silent parts have no other background noise, you can just silence the audio, but make sure to do noise reduction first so it doesn't sound like a silent gap
2. If the silent parts have some constant background noise, you can create a second track, mute the breathing parts and paste some random background noise onto the silent track

You could also create a noise gate if your breathing is quiet enough, but I'm not sure if there's a way to do that in Davinci Resolve itself.

Thanks for the tips. I’ll look into Audacity.