Can Lightroom 3 reduce autofocus motor noise in video?
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I may be mixing up features in Lightroom 3. Does Lightroom have any tool to reduce autofocus or lens motor noise picked up in video audio, or is its noise reduction only for image noise in photos? If Lightroom can’t do this, what kind of software should I use to reduce focusing noise from recorded video?
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Not camera motor noise -- camera picture noise. That is, there's a feature in Lightroom 3 to make your photos less "grainy", which can happen under low-light conditions (higher ISO settings) or when using cameras with small sensors. If you are looking for audio noise reduction on recorded video, you're going to need to look at video editing software (and perhaps even stripping out the soundtrack and processing the audio separately).
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Lightroom 3’s noise reduction is for image noise in photos, not for audible autofocus/lens motor noise recorded in video.
If the problem is sound from focusing or lens motors in your video, you’ll need video or audio-editing software instead. A common approach is to separate the audio from the video, process the sound, then recombine it. Community suggestions included using Audacity for basic noise reduction; it can help if you have a short “silent” section to sample the unwanted noise. VirtualDub was also mentioned for basic video handling and conversion.
So: Lightroom won’t remove focus-motor sound from video audio. Use an audio/video editor for that task.
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