Audio filter question

I am trying to render some footage that was shot during a live comedian event from around 15 meters away using a stationary camera.
The picture quality is ok, but the sound is lacking a bit. The big room create some echoing by default, and the microphone was far away - so some of the closer background noise is just too loud in comparison.
So i am looking for a filter that helps me remedy this. As re-rendering is time consuming just to test for some subtle audio changes, and there are soo many filters available (FCE HD 3.5) - which one should i look closer into?
Thanks a lot for pointers.
Frank Mantek

There is not much you can do with bad sound. You can spend ages and end up with very little, if any, improvement.
Some people recommend a program called SoundSoap but that costs big money! ( £100 upwards - with no guarantee it will help your problem ).
Ian.

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A.
There is nothing wrong with learning and we all have this fact in common; once we were all newbies and had to learn. I wish I would have had these resources when I was a kid but all I had was a Kodak Instamatic and and super8 movie camera. Pretty lucky then!
But, looking at your body of posts, you expect people in a virtual space to know what you're doing, what your video looks like and how it sounds. We don't even know how your rig is configured or what you're using for equipment so how is anyone supposed to answer such ambiguous questions on subjects of rank subjectivity for you?
There is huge merit is figuring stuff out for yourself as this way leads to better learning than having someone just point out the way. Everyone needs help occasionally -- or frequently in my case -- so when you do, come and ask with specifics in mind. Join Lynda.com for a month, it's cheap at $25.00 and then bookmark and devour everything in kenstone.net, provideocoaltion, adam wilt's website and I'll guarantee you'll learn more than running in here and asking constant generalities. It's my biggest problem with this forum and others; everyone thinks there's a magic filter/plugin, no one wants to figure out anything for themselves and because FCP and Macs are cheap, all this should be easy. Well, whatever.
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I am getting this error when I open my project. In addition, no media will play in the project either in the sequence window or the source window.
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I dug around a bit and I found that there is a known bug with audio from XML's and that is what I am using (convinced my client to migrate from FCP to Premiere - please don't tell me I made a mistake).
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Steve and Bill,
I follow your advice, but it did not solve the problem. It is true that problems began when I used ZOOM recorder at 98kHz/24 bit in my current project (I already changed ZOOM mode to 48kHz/16 bit), but could this be just a coincidence?
In the meantime I checked the rest of my 16 projects (.prel), which were fine before. To my surprise I found that although all of them were made using EXACTLY the same method, some of them are still OK, but most I can not Playback. The messages appearing are of three types:
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i need an audio filter that will bring out a distant clapping noise thats you cant even hear during playback. i have raised the dB as high as possible. is there a way to get it heard at all?

Just be aware, that if the audio is very slight and you raise the level .. you will also raise the levels of any surrounding room noise, etc ... so you will get a lot of hiss and maybe even echo. You can also double up the clip to increase the volume but I doubt you would be left with anything useful
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Steve and Bill,
I follow your advice, but it did not solve the problem. It is true that problems began when I used ZOOM recorder at 98kHz/24 bit in my current project (I already changed ZOOM mode to 48kHz/16 bit), but could this be just a coincidence?
In the meantime I checked the rest of my 16 projects (.prel), which were fine before. To my surprise I found that although all of them were made using EXACTLY the same method, some of them are still OK, but most I can not Playback. The messages appearing are of three types:
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