squeaky floor

Greetings,

Not sure if this is the right place to post the question...

I've tried basic Audio Analysis options... that reduces the floor noise "some" but kills her delicate voice.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Kman

Since the floor noise is louder than her voice, this is going to be tough. May require iZotope RX or something on that level.

This is difficult since the spectral range of the noise overlaps her voice. However several of the noises are impulse events, separate from speech. With a spectral editor they can simply be edited out and back-filled with room tone. Obviously that would require something like Izotope RX4.

There's a less expensive product which I've never used called SoundSoap: www.soundness-llc.com/products/soundsoap4/

However -- for cases like this I don't think any "auto fix" product can work. It generally requires advanced spectral editing. The problem with Izotope (besides the price) is it's complex to use, and requires a fair amount of training and experience.

If I have time I'll try to examine your clip further, but no promises.

Kman,
I always find it important to have a segment of "noise" that is isolated from the sounds I need to preserve to do a beginning analysis.
Any footage with just the floor noise and no dialogue over it?
Any other audio sources you could get? Looks like footage of back of house at a play. Any house recordings?
Any possibility of doing ADR?
Some of the pops should come out, but this is a tough one. This is not a consistent sound like a hum, so much harder to remove. Overlapping waveforms, but frequencies seem somewhat unique, so at least possible to clean up some.
Soundtrack Pro has an analysis tool to help remove unwanted sound. Do you have a copy of STP?
If you have some clean segments of the creaking, you do an analysis of the waveform using a 30band e.q and remove the offensive frequencies on the clip you are trying to clean up. Use relatively narrow "Q" and attenuate in the most troublesome frequencies. If this occurs throughout the video not just the segment you posted, this is going to take a long time to clean up as you will need to teak for each segment so you don't lose sound frequencies you want to keep. As an example, if you have a door closing you might lose that sound if you simply drop a tweaked eq filter on all footage.
This video tutorial may help you…
fcpx.tv/Pages/audioeq.html
Hope this helps, Greg

VidGreg,

The only other audio was recorded on the internal mic of the 2nd camera.

I've decided to go with what we have. Since this project is for the kids in the play. Everyone will have to deal with the one floor problem.

Thanks for everyone's input...

Kman