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Thanks. I've taken it as far as I can for the time being. I'm leaving it to the professionals from here.

Exactly. No one monitoring, mounted right on the camera, signal sent directly into camera.

From what I can tell, based on what the producer told me and what I can see in the picture and on the meters, this was recorded onto a $400 mic and sent into the XLR input on an XL2. Shot in an extremely reflective log cabin environment with no on set mixing and a lot of clipping. I tell them on a daily basis that our best bet is to let a pro audio guy do what they can with it and we'll address how to resolve it based on their report. (Re-recording, etc.)

Thanks Marc. I appreciate your response and positive contribution toward a solution. This was helpful.

Blankenship, you're obviously a seasoned professional. I admitted I was out of my realm and came here for recommendations on a plug-in or two. Some people provided recommendations. I tried what Vin and Jesse suggested, and found a solution. Then I posted that I found a solution. That's pretty much the end of it, right? I could have communicated more clearly what the issue was, but unfortunately I didn't. Good news is, the problem is resolved so now you get a chance to cool down and maybe find a way help or ignore the next person who comes here looking for assistance, instead of attacking the new guy. Take it easy on us, please.

Thanks Angelo. I'm cleaning it up relatively easily with iZotope RX II ADV, and a little EQ. I'll check out Cedar if I run into problems in the future.

Although I'm sure this isn't a serious question... Try Davinci Resolve or RG Colorista. There is a simple highlight recovery tool you can use to get started. RG Colorista is a plugin you would need for AVID, Resolve has a free download on their site for the base model of their software. If you shot it with a Red Epic or similar camera you should be able to adjust your ISO in several programs that will allow you to change camera settings after the footage has been recorded. Hence why there is such a huge file size in the first place, because it records everything. Unless you're going to rotoscope the highlights and adjust them separately, you are going to lose your exposure on your subject as you bring your highlights down. Most likely, you have clipped your highlights and they are non-recoverable because there is no data past it's maximum brightness threshold. If this was a serious question, I'd look into one of those two solutions mentioned above and start with highlight recovery, and ISO settings. Good luck.

Fair enough. I thought the easy solve would have been "start with EQ" or some other similar suggestion. The suggestion is the solve. After that, I'll need to spend time with it and eventually hand it off.

When was I rude?

Guys, I said be polite. Cross over into video editing in AVID, Premier, FCP, or any compositing application and I'm sure there is a learning curve for you as well, I've got those covered. I'd help you if you had a question on the video side, not tell you to use the "GanGbuster27-niner" filter, then laugh at how clever I was was while being self-righteously pissed off about redundant newbie posts. I'm willing to go into PT and figure it out and I know I'll have to spend a lot of time working with these tools to find what sounds right for this project (for a rough delivery as I mentioned). All I asked for was a plug-in or two that could point me in the right direction. No magic fix. The sound has noise in it because it wasn't captured correctly on set. As editors, we get this crap all the time. I didn't record it and a pro audio guy will get to dive into it after me, I would just like for the Producer to hear it more clearly if possible so we can focus on the story and lock picture. I'm taking the time out to learn how to improve it and to ask questions, why would you jump all over someone who wants to learn? I could spend years in PT and not be great at it... in this instance, I want to take some time to try to finesse it, and see how I can improve it, not check every single plug-in included in PT to figure it out if possible. Hence, point me in the right direction. So, just looking for those plug-in recommendations, like "vin" suggested above. Thank you.

Video editor looking to do a passable cleanup on an audio track only for the purpose of handing in a rough. They gave me horrible audio, with noise and the mic was probably laying on the ground in a corner, def not where it was supposed to be. I'll launch Protools and see if I can give myself a refresher. Bad audio is bad audio, but I wanted to see if anyone can recommend a plug-in or two that I should focus my time on as I dig around in there to try to give it a little bump. Not looking to take up too much of anyone's time, would appreciate any recommendations on a plug-in I should try. Please be polite. I don't have time to search the boards here to try to understand the technical mambo jambo listed in most of these posts. I'm a typical video guy who doesn't have the years of post audio experience that you do. So when we're talking plug-ins, you're already over my head. Not exactly, but you get my point. Skill level 0, this guy right here. Can anyone recommend a plug-in that I can research and start to try out? Thank you.