You shot something outside and the wind got into the mic. That low roar and buffeting that sits on top of everything, worst when a gust hits. Indoor audio you can usually save. Wind is harder, because it’s loud, it’s spread across the whole sound, and it never holds still.

What the standard fixes get you

The classic move is a high-pass filter. Wind energy sits mostly in the low frequencies, so you roll those off. It helps with light, steady wind. The catch is your voice lives down there too, so cut enough to kill the wind and the voice goes thin and tinny. You’re trading one problem for another.

Noise reduction is the other go-to, and it has the same weakness it always does: it wants steady noise, and wind isn’t steady. It comes in gusts, so the tool smooths the quiet stretches and then a gust punches straight through. You end up tuning multiple effects for different parts of the clip and still not getting it clean.

Both of these are fighting the wind by frequency or by volume. Neither one knows what wind is.

A tool built to pull noise off the voice

This is where AI source separation does better. Instead of guessing from frequency or loudness, it separates the noisy background from the voice and lifts it out, while leaving the voice where it is.

SoundScrub is a desktop app that does exactly this. You drag the clip onto it, hit Remove, pick the built-in “ambient noise” preset, and it hands the file back with the wind pulled out and the voice intact. Because it’s targeting the sound itself, it doesn’t fall apart on gusts the way a noise gate does, and it isn’t carving a hole in your low end the way a high-pass does.

If the wind is brutal and the voice is the simpler thing to name, go the other way: pick Keep, select “people speaking”, and it isolates the voice and drops the rest.

Nothing to install, no plugin chain. You’re only charged for what you run, $0.25 per 30 seconds.

In SoundScrub you drop a clip in, choose Remove or Keep, then pick or type the sound to target.

Getting it done

Export the windy clip as a video from your editor. Drop it into SoundScrub and you get the same video back with the wind gone and the rest of the audio left alone. Reimport it and drop it in place of the original. The audio is already swapped in, so there’s no track to mute by hand, and the quality matches what you exported.