Is there a way to edit the audio of a video clip in windows movie maker?

Question

I recorded a video with my camcorder and it has like a wind sound. Is there a way to edit the audio of that video?

Answer 1

fleacircus is right about putting the audio into a separate editor, but not about the low-pass filter. movie maker doesnt offer audio controls (or at least what I would consider audio controls), it only offers volume controls, and some fades and crossfades. To remove the wind noise, you need something like sound forge, which is what i'm using, but there are other programs out there that could do it as well. Basically, you need a program with some kind of equalizer, graphic or paragraphic (windows media player wont work because it wont let you save the files). Then import your video and play the sound, while adjusting the equalizer. wind is a LOW FREQUENCY noise (or at least to mics it is), so try lowering the lower pitches by a few decibels, or adjust what ever pitches are necessary to get a good sound. Sometimes there are even filters installed the programs for things like this, but they are not always as precise as doing it by hand, but you can look for them and use them if you dont want to do it by hand. After everything is done, export the sound as an uncompressed wav file, and import into movie maker. Go to your video and mute the audio from it, and then drag the de-noised audio clip into the soundtrack section. Obviously, if you want to add music, you will have to render, and then re-render. Or you could add the music in your sound editing program, so its one big sound file with all the music and wind removal and everything together. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Windows Movie maker has basic sound controls, you can increase or decrease the volume and fade in or out the sound.
It would probably be best to mute the sound on that track and load the source file into a sound editor. You can then try to fix the sound, wind is a combination of high frequency hiss and a low pitched rumble so a band-pass filter might help. You can then load the audio back into movie maker and place it back on your movie.

In future you can use a sock or furry mike cover to avoid having these problems in your audio.

For things like voice overs it might be more appropriate to record these inside

Answer 3

Luis,
I do that all the time, but not using movie maker. I use Pinnacle Studio.
You can download a trial to test it!

Good luck!

Answer 4

sorry its a bit unclear but i think theres a line that goes across that you can drag up and down. hope u arent planning to make a dvd with this movie. i got tired of WMM since it compresses everything and makes it blurry. try pinnacle or ulead products if ur computer can handle it. GL