[MacDV] Removing audio distortion?

[James Asherman]

On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 04:28  PM, Sean W.Gallagher wrote:

>
> I'm editing a speech that was shot with two cameras and the audio from 
> the speech came directly from the speaker's microphone into camera 
> one, but it's slightly distorted. I tried using the audio from camera 
> two (which is perfect), but the cameraman cut the camera at a crucial 
> point in the speech. Is there a way to remove the distortion from the 
> audio? I have Peak DV, but I don't know how to use it. I'm editing in 
> FCP3, but I can't figure out what filter would do this if any. Any 
> help would be appreciated.
>
> -Sean
>
>

Removing distortion is almost impossible.
You could try the audio filter eq and try to zero in on the offensive 
frequencies and cut them.
Then you would need to maybe use a compressor limiter to smooth it put 
and regain the gain lost to the eq, but all of that is liable to make 
it sound like crap as much as it is to fix it. Luckily FCP is non 
destructive.
Jim