Editing

Voice Cleanup

Clean up background noise and room echo in your voice, preview the result against the original, and choose how much to apply.

Updated 2 November 2026·View as Markdown

Voice cleanup reduces background noise and room echo in the recording, on your Mac. It is on for new projects, at Amount 75%, unless you untick Clean up voice at setup. The transcript and the waveform always use the original sound.

Open it with Audio in the toolbar, or Cut › Voice Cleanup… (⌥ ⌘ V). The Audio icon shows whether cleanup is on.

The Voice Cleanup sheet: the on and off switch (1), a 30-second preview window over the recording’s waveform (2), the Amount slider at 75% (3), Listen to Cleaned or Original (4) and the Apply button (5).

  1. On or off for the whole project.
  2. The preview window: 30 seconds of speech. Drag it along the recording to try another passage.
  3. Amount: lower keeps more of the original sound, higher cleans more.
  4. Listen to Cleaned or Original, to compare (⇧ ⌘ O).
  5. Apply cleans the whole recording at that Amount.

Outside the sheet, Cut › Listen to Original (⇧ ⌘ O) flips the main preview between the cleaned and the original sound.

A rendered video uses the cleaned voice when cleanup is on. An export to DaVinci Resolve always uses the original recording, so you can do your own sound work there.