VideoSoap

Scrub up bad audio recordings

Good sound is just as important as what’s on the screen. We may have little control over our surroundings when shooting with an iPhone, so VideoSoap helps scrub out unwelcome background noise.

VideoSoap removes hiss or noise, brightens up the overall sound, and fixes poor volume levels. It accomplishes the first task by intelligently analysing the sound you don’t want, such as an air conditioner or traffic noise. As a clip plays, tap and hold Learn for a few seconds during the offending section and the app applies a filter to reduce or completely remove it from the entire clip.

Enhance and Boost sliders restore sparkle to dull audio, adjust low volume levels, or fix clipping on overly loud tracks. The results are quite spectacular and very easy to accomplish, but headphones are recommended. Video, along with cleaned audio, is copied to a new file with no quality loss. J.R. Bookwalter

VideoSoap works magic on poor recordings, but it needs updating for Retina displays and the iPhone 6.