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Remove background noise from videos

You can’t always get what you want, as The Rolling Stones once noted, so I wasn’t too disappointed when Santa again failed to bring me a Google Pixel for Christmas. Instead, I got a new pair of trousers, some comfy slippers and a bottle of nice aftershave.

“I wanted to remove the wind from a video of me larking about in the Alps”

Besides, I’m happy with). Similar to Magic Eraser for photos, which detects and deletes unwanted people from your snaps (see this column in Issue 620), this tool uses machine learning to identify and remove distracting video background noise. It works by separating the audio into different layers, so you can reduce the volume of sounds such as music, wind and people talking.

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