VideoSoap 5
Make your videos sound less noisy
Free (with IAP) Developer Soundness, soundness-llc.com Platform Universal Requirements iOS 8.1 or later
One of the biggest problems when recording video using an iPhone or iPad’s built-in mic is unwanted noise. Whether it’s cars passing by on a busy road or the background hum of a rowdy office, it’s an undesirable distraction.
VideoSoap aims to solve that by removing that noise from your videos – but that’s not all it does. It can boost audio that’s too quiet, or dampen audio that’s too loud. New to version 5, the app also allows you to use your iPhone as an external mic and cancel noise before it’s recorded.
You need to run a cable between your iOS device and the microphone socket on a DSLR or camcorder. The app then picks up the audio from the iOS device’s microphone, processes it – canceling noise and enhancing the audio if you choose – before routing it to the headphone jack for the cable to carry it to the camera.
The interface is clear and easy to use so you don’t need to be a technical wizard to use it, and the app does a good job of eliminating high frequencies in background noise. Lower sounds such as wind noise are muffled, but remain. The live mic feature is similarly less effective with lower-frequency sounds. We found the best results came from a combination of the Denoise, Enhance and Boost controls. While the app itself is free, saving, exporting or using the external mic features requires an In-App Purchase, which costs $9.99.
the bottom line. Quick and easy noise removal, but lacking proper fine control over the audio in your videos.