Wind noise on videos - how to prevent or remove?

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Does anyone have any bright ideas for preventing wind noise on videos shot with a mobile phone or compact hand-held camera?

In neither case do I have the option to attach a separate mic, and manually covering the mic hole while holding the phone/camera with one hand and clinging on to the boat with the other requires juggling skills I don't possess. I suppose a bit of tape might be a pragmatic solution.

Any suggestions for computer programs that can filter out wind noise from a video? I've done a bit of a web search but nothing leaps out.
 
Many compacts have a "wind filter" setting in the video menu which helps a lot. Some tape over the little hole for the mic is another thing which helps slightly. I have some permanently on my compact camera.
There is a video here showing how to do it after having filmed.


He uses Premiere Pro as a video editor. He uses Audacity to clip the noise. It is a stand alone programme. I am not sure you can use Audacity with other programmes.

Bit of a faff though.
 
On board ship for the walkie talkies ... it was common to put the WT in a plastic bag and just make sure the plastic was a single tight bit over mic.

With Keycams and various digicams used on my models - clingfilm over the mic hole can reduce it a lot ... the noise comes from the air going across the hole ... its like a flute or whistles hole. Make it flat with the film and air cannot be 'cut' by the holes edge.
 
lw395 said:
Generally, the sound adds little to nothing to sailing videos. Just turn it off.
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There are two things that make me stop a video :

1. Fisheye / Wide angle lense

2. No sound.

I have DJI Pro drone and that records HD up to 4K .... and no sound. If it did - all you'd hear would be the propellers whirring away .. droning noise ! ..... but watching - it is like your ears are straining to hear something at least ......... so music or background addition is added to solve it.

All other video units I have - if I remember ! - will get the clingfilm ...

Of course if its a microphone proper - then the big light sponge job is the answer ... as sound passes through but wind no.
 
I often put on sailing videos and some music from another source.
Unless there is likely to be really high quality commentary, the sound is generally a waste of time.
Videoing dinghy racing, you can mostly only hear the camera boat engine and wind noise.
Mostly we watch them in the bar with the sound off.
Professionally videoed racing like the Olympics, the commentary is usually not worth listening to, but there won't usually be any live sound from the cameras.
Watching live sailing (racing), there is little sound involved.

If you're going to record sound live on camera, you need to do it properly with good mikes.

Putting your own taste in music with the video is likely to cut down your audience, there are few enough people who actually want to watch sailing videos already, losing half of them because they don't like your favourite band is not a great way forwards.
As people found 40 years ago with cine, sound dictates the editing and even the shooting.
 
I agree if the sound is added and without care to volume / video content.

As Hitchcock said - sound can complete a scene - creating what is actually not seen but mind imagines.

We have a guy who posts a lot of model flight videos on one forum I am part of ... very good model pilot ... great scratchbuild designs but I know that many cannot watch his videos because of the strange french rock music he has really loud on them.
 
I agree, annoying music on sailing videos can be a real turn-off, but, as an aside, those sailing programmes one sees sometimes on digital channels late at night, involving racing sponsored by Rolex etc., seem to have an off-putting, strange sound to the commentary/narration, I wonder why?
 
A problem I have and I know many others have ... it is getting harder to fit music to videos because of increasing Copyright range.

Music that was previously available ... written decades even century ago - now has some orchestra in some off beat place claiming CR when used as background as example.

Free Music Archive - which until a year or so ago was a really good source of music to background a video has been ruined by this. Artists who were pleased to provide music - are now 'invited' to apply CR to their music and it has destroyed the archive's whole reason for existence.

I have a pal who is really good keyboard player ... and I use some of his work on videos ........... because odd parts or chords of HIS work resemble works triggers Youtube CR - I now cannot use his without having my videos 'marked'. You cannot counter this either - once triggered - that's it. I've tried and some poxy unknown music entity basically told me to 'get stuffed' !!

Much of this actually stems from Youtube creating the Monetised Scheme.
 
A Windshield or Dead Cat (honestly that's what it called) is what the pro's use. They are great but purpose made for a particular product usually.
An alternative I've used in the past for a gopro or compact camera is a small piece of fur from an old child's toy. This stuck over the mic works well. The furrier the better.
 
Refueler said:
A problem I have and I know many others have ... it is getting harder to fit music to videos because of increasing Copyright range.

Music that was previously available ... written decades even century ago - now has some orchestra in some off beat place claiming CR when used as background as example.

Free Music Archive - which until a year or so ago was a really good source of music to background a video has been ruined by this. Artists who were pleased to provide music - are now 'invited' to apply CR to their music and it has destroyed the archive's whole reason for existence.

I have a pal who is really good keyboard player ... and I use some of his work on videos ........... because odd parts or chords of HIS work resemble works triggers Youtube CR - I now cannot use his without having my videos 'marked'. You cannot counter this either - once triggered - that's it. I've tried and some poxy unknown music entity basically told me to 'get stuffed' !!

Much of this actually stems from Youtube creating the Monetised Scheme.
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Very true. I've never had a video banned but I guess it could happen. I had one marked for copyright infringement because there was a radio faintly playing in the background of one scene, for about two seconds.

PS
I tape a bit of foam over the mike to cut down noise, it helps.

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lw395 said:
I often put on sailing videos and some music from another source.
Unless there is likely to be really high quality commentary, the sound is generally a waste of time.
Videoing dinghy racing, you can mostly only hear the camera boat engine and wind noise.
Mostly we watch them in the bar with the sound off.
Professionally videoed racing like the Olympics, the commentary is usually not worth listening to, but there won't usually be any live sound from the cameras.
Watching live sailing (racing), there is little sound involved.

If you're going to record sound live on camera, you need to do it properly with good mikes.

Putting your own taste in music with the video is likely to cut down your audience, there are few enough people who actually want to watch sailing videos already, losing half of them because they don't like your favourite band is not a great way forwards.
As people found 40 years ago with cine, sound dictates the editing and even the shooting.
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The START gun, hooter, klaxon or whatever makes viewing a false start more interesting though, eh ? or even the Recall ?
 
If your music is playing 'in' the video YT seem to be a little less stringent in their application of copyright.

A dead cat, or in the case of a mobile phone more a dead hamster, would help indirectly with this too. A small bit of fake fur placed over the microphone or a fetching home-made fake fur phone case, with cut out for the camera(s), would work.
 
Maybe foam ? I have a decibel meter with a foam egg shaped cover.
I have learnt so much about music and video this evening and all from a wind thread.
Great stuff ?
 
External mic covered with Dead cat is the way to go but the bigger the gear the less likely you are to get it out when things get interesting on board. .
For your compact camera, you can glue a bit of fluff over the hole for the mic (where the audio goes in).
The main issue with wind is it blowing across the top of the mic sensor. Fluff will sort this with minimal muffling
 
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