Audio editing issue- remove ambient room noise

I am doing an audio run thru of my short program (puppets, etc). We had to do some VO work and have noticed the ambient room noise varies from scene to scene. On some it is OK, but others it is quite noticable. Is there a filter I can apply to control that? FC6 Thanks!

If you did this properly and sent it from within fcp, when you save in soundtrack pro and switch back to fcp, it should update properly. Then compressor and into dvdspro

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camcorder on 16bit, i am using a vhs player attacthed to camera then firewire to imac, ... the imovie project is perfect in everyway. Everything is pal. Yes i did export to QT within IM and this was also out of sync.
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pops into mind: in iM vers3, there was some 'bug', concerning PAL wrong audio and NTSC good audio ... wow < scratching bald head > .. try to contact some wiseguy with better memory..
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