Audio Eraser Limitations

[harbinger007]

I have a YouTube channel with several hundred short videos of figs grown on my farm. Some have annoying distracting noises and I shot several videos today to test out the audio eraser feature as well as evaluate video quality. Video quality is great IMO. Some limitations or drawbacks I've noticed thus far:

1. The edited videos make it sound somewhat like I'm in a closet, a bit unnatural
2. When trying to edit a video over 2 minutes long I'm told to trim the video to 2 minutes or less
3. I saw "um" quite often and none of these are filtered out though I had understood this as one possibility of the feature.

Overall, I like the edited quality but maybe not quite as good or useful as I had hoped.

 

[I Can Be Your Hero]

1. Yes when you use audio eraser, it does change the sound of the remaining audio. Doesn't sound very good, so I don't bother with it.
2. Yes, seems like a limitation.
3. I don't think it filters 'um' out of audio eraser. I thought filtering out 'um' and 'ah' was with the improved speech to text, unless I'm confused and audio eraser can do that too?

Agree that audio eraser isn't nearly as good as advertised. I tried it a couple of times, audio is ruined when you use it, so I just don't bother using it.

 

[harbinger007]

Overall for my situation it does make the video better but not great. Number 3 "um" was my wife's memory who pointed it out in my video in a not very nice way!

 

[Kizzy Catwoman]

It works for me. I take car videos and often have TV on in the background. I don't want the distraction and it filters out the speech leaving the cat noises like purring etc. For my use case it has been perfect.

 

[harbinger007]

Purrfect??? Don't you ever want to do a video more than 2 minutes?

 

[MoreDef]

I was recording my kid dancing to Blippy, and at some point, I was talking to her. I decided to try and edit out my voice, but it also affected all the other voices. It ended up sounding like someone had just turned on ANC, as everything got quieter and more muffled.

It seems to me that you can't isolate 1 voice above other voices and simply erase it, but rather it's meant to take out other noises that aren't similar.

Kinda weak.

 

[Kizzy Catwoman]

Purrfect??? Don't you ever want to do a video more than 2 minutes?

Not really because people don't want to watch for more than a couple of minutes or my cats don't do things for more than a couple of minutes.

 

[I Can Be Your Hero]

It seems to me that you can't isolate 1 voice above other voices and simply erase it, but rather it's meant to take out other noises that aren't similar.

Kinda weak.

It's not just that though. I was recording out and about and was talking, there was background traffic noise and wind noises. Muted them and my voice became super quiet and really hard to hear. Change the tone of my voice to so it didn't really sound like me either.

So I revert it back to the original and yes it has audible background noise, but I was at least louder and sounded normal.

 

[harbinger007]

Interesting as my voice volume didn't change with the audio eraser.

I don't have an original version uploaded but here is one where I used the eraser
fig video

Here is another unedited one as it was slightly over two minutes long
fig video with no audio eraser