How to reduce background noise when recording on iphone

By Kayla Collins | Updated: Sep. 16, 2022

[Video Noise Reducer] How to Get Rid of Unwanted Background Noise from iPhone Video

When you shoot a video using iPhone in a noisy place, the output video will be mixed up with ambient noise like wind, traffic, hum, ceiling fan, etc. To remove the unwanted background noise from your iPhone recording, the most common way is to use video noise reduction app on iPhone. However, most video noise reducer apps are featured only with this feature, which are not worth 5 bucks indeed. Instead, you can consider trying a full-featured iPhone video processing software to not only remove background noise from iPhone footages, but also edit/resize/transcode iPhone video clips. VideoProc Converter is the very one!

How to reduce background noise when recording on iphone

want to Remove iPhone Video Background Noise?

VideoProc Converter makes it an easy work!

  • 1. Eliminate background/ambient/white noise from iPhone videos at 1 simple click!
  • 2. Edit iPhone video footage (crop, cut, trim, split, merge, rotate, speed up/slow down, stabilize, fisheye).
  • 3. Downscale 4K to 1080p, 60FPS to 30FPS, lower bitrate to reduce iPhone size for Ins/YTB, etc.
  • 4. Transcode iPhone HEVC to H264, MP4, MKV, AVI, FLV, WMV, MP3, etc. 420+ output formats.

Get Closer to Top Video Noise Reduction Software

VideoProc Converter , the one-stop iPhone video processing software, is well-designed for you to remove any background/ambient/white noise from iPhone videos, including the traffic noise, trumpet, wind, breathing, hum, buzzes, whisper, annoying air conditioner noise, etc. That's not the whole story. World renowned as versatile toolbox, it also makes an easywork of editing iPhone videos (cut, trim, crop, split, merge, add subtitles/watermark, deshare, fisheye correction...), resizing iPhone clips (lower video resolution/bit rate/frame rate) and converting iPhone videos (HEVC to H264, MOV to MP4, MP4 to MP3, etc.) at GPU HW accelerated speed.

How to Reduce/Remove Noise from iPhone Footage

Prior to getting rid of iPhone video background noise, you're required to free download VideoProc Converter at your desktop first. Choose the product version based on your operating system. It's well compatible with Windows 11/10/8/7, as well as macOS Ventura/Monterey/Big Sur/Catalina or earlier. Afterwards, install and launch it on your computer.

Step 1. Import iPhone Videos. Click Video on the main interface > tap "+" (add video file to list) icon button to load the iPhone footages to the software.

Note:

1. This utility is a desktop-based tool so that you're demanded to transfer videos from iPhone to Mac or Windows first using Photos app or some third party apps.

2. As the below picture shows, there are more features available: DVD, Downloader and Recorder. To be specific, it can also be applied into ripping and backing up your DVD to MP4 or other digital formats, free downloading videos from YouTube (1000+ sites supported) and recording Mac/iPhone screen video with sound.

How to reduce background noise when recording on iphone

Step 2. Choose Denoise. Move your mouse to the bottom of the interface > find "Toolbox" and tap it > click "Denoise" option and tap the settings icon in the upper right corner to make the Denoise adjustment window pop up.

How to reduce background noise when recording on iphone

Step 3. Adjust Settings. Keep the default settings if you're not familiar with noise reduction settings. As for the video editing experts, you're allowed to freely tweak the High Pass and Low Pass, as well as cut your iPhone footage length for part video clip noise reduction. Afterwards, tap Done button.

Note: The features in Toolbox can be used 1 at each time and they can't be used with other editing features (Effect, Watermark, Cut, Crop, Rotate, Subtitle) at the same time. If you need to edit iPhone videos with more functions, do it after the previous is done.

Step 4. Choose Video Format. Tap "Video" or "Target Format" to enter into the output profile window, where you can select the output video format you need, including MP4, MOV, H264, HEVC, MKV, AVI, FLV, WMV, WebM, as well as iPhone Xs Max/Xs/XR, iPad Pro, Galaxy S9 edge, Huawei, Sony, Microsoft, etc.

How to reduce background noise when recording on iphone

Note: shift your attention to the lower right corner of the home screen and you'll find the Hardware Acceleration Engine (Nvidia/Intel/AMD) is auto ticked as long as your computer supports at least one of the GPU HW acceleration techs, be it Nvidia NVENC/NVDEC, Intel Quick Sync Video or AMD APP. Thus, your compute-intensive iPhone video noise removal task can be accomplished at GPU accelerated speed, up to 5X faster than ever and break away from the CPU overheating, CPU overuse and desktop laggy problem.

Step 5. Remove iPhone Video Noise Now!

Hit "RUN" button to commence the iPhone footage noise removal mission on your computer. The pop-up window will show you the iPhone video processing speed and the GPU acceleration tech it adopts. You would find that your CPU usage is roughly 30% - 50%, about 2 times less usage than the ordinary video noise removal tools. Therefore, you can simultaneously do other tasks like surfing, playing games, watching online videos, etc. without desktop laggy trouble.

A couple of seconds or minutes later, you can get your final outputs. Open it in QuickTime or Windows Media Player to enjoy your iPhone recordings without annoying ambient/background noise.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

How to reduce background noise when recording on iphone

Kayla Collins

Kayla Collins, a senior member of Digiarty software for 5 years, knows a thing or two about digital devices & video processing software like GoPro, DSLR camera, Drone, iPhone iPad, iMac, iMovie, etc. and is glad to share her knowledge to help people out of trouble. She's also deeply passionate about yoga, jogging, roller-skating, handcraft, reading, music, movie and more.

How to reduce background noise when recording on iphone

VideoProc is a primary branch of Digiarty Software that is a leading multimedia software company founded in 2006. It endeavors to provide easier hardware-accelerated video audio editing and conversion solutions. The installed base of the VideoProc product has reached 4.6 million units from 180 countries since its release 3 years ago.

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