Wind noise auto filtering

I need yourexpert help. I'm a novice at audio filtering, and I need to filter out wind noise on a minute of film.
My narrator, who is 82, recently had a stroke, so I cannot reshoot it.
I used a rabbit fur isolator on my remote mike, but the shoot was on a windy beach last winter and I got wind noise nevertheless.
Which filter should I use? What frequency should I filter out?
Thanks in advance.
Bob Ingle

Bob,
Wind (and air noise in general) is often hard to get rid of once it's been recorded. This is because air/wind noise often covers most of the audible spectrum. So if you try to reduce the noise, you end up reducing the audio you want to keep along with it.
If the noise is more low-end, you could try playing around with the EQ filter. But you're best bet may be to use Soundtrack Pro by sampling the noise alone, then reducing the noise on the rest of the clip with the sample to filter it out.
-DH

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Matt,
Like he suggested, I've had better outcomes when I lessen the effect, then if I feel daring, I'll try it again, ever so slightly.
From my experience, the low-cut filter worked best for my wind noise. You could definitely still hear the wind, but the low "boomy" blasts that I had were all taken out - quite drastically at that - and without any digital noise.
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I shoot mostly outdoors too, and it gets pretty windy where I live!
> I shoot mostly
outdoors and even with a sock covered mike I pick up
the wind noise
I hope you mean you have a Rycote "Softie" or something similar protecting your mic . . ?
If so, you should be able to shoot in quite a high wind without any "wind noise" - but of course, even if your "sock" is correctly fitted and working well, you'll pick up the sound of the wind (different thing altogether).
If you have the right gear and are experiencing the buffeting sound you get with an unprotected mic, then I suspect there are gaps somewhere - so tape them up!
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Mickey Oksner wrote:
Is there a filter/effect that will reduce wind noise while retaining voice reception?
HI -
Are you talking about general wind noise as in "Wind in the Background" or are you referring to wind which is directly hitting the microphone capsule and thus causing extreme plosives and distortion.
In latter scenario, there is nothing that you can do aside from 'living with it' or record it again.
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