How To Manage Audio Settings brackground noise and silents in OneTake?

OneTake allows you to control how your audio is processed before videos are edited. These settings define how background noise, breathing sounds, audio balance, and silence are handled when the Magic Button processes your video.

All audio settings are managed at: https://app.onetake.ai/app/settings?tab=audio-editing. These settings apply automatically to future videos unless you change them.

Where to find Audio Settings

1. Log in to your OneTake account
2. Go to Account Settings
3. Open the Audio remastering tab
4. Adjust your preferred audio options
5. Click Save changes

Once saved, these settings define how OneTake processes your audio when editing videos.

Background Noise

This setting controls whether OneTake removes environmental noise from your audio.

Available options:

• Remove background noise
• Do not remove background noise

When background noise removal is enabled, OneTake reduces steady sounds such as hums, air conditioning, or room noise while keeping speech intact. Disabling this option keeps the original audio unchanged.

Breath Sounds

This setting controls how breathing noises are treated.

Available options:

• Remove breathing noise (recommended)
• Do not remove breathing noise

When enabled, OneTake reduces audible breathing sounds between speech. If disabled, breathing sounds remain exactly as recorded.

Left-Right Audio Balance (Advanced)

This setting controls how audio channels are balanced.

Available options:

• Centering audio balance (recommended)
• Keep the original balance between audio channels

Centering audio balance ensures that speech is evenly distributed across left and right channels. Keeping the original balance preserves the original stereo positioning from your recording device.

Silences and Dead Time

This setting controls how pauses and quiet sections are trimmed.

Available options:

• Automatically remove dead time (recommended)
• Only trim the start and end
• Apply custom settings when trimming silences
• Do not trim anything, leave it all in

Automatic removal shortens pauses between spoken sections. Trimming only the start and end keeps internal pauses intact. Custom trimming gives finer control, while disabling trimming preserves the full recording.

How these settings are used during editing

• Audio settings are applied when the Magic Button processes a video
• They affect future videos, not videos already processed
• They define how OneTake cleans and prepares audio before visual editing
• They do not change subtitles, translations, or video styles

If you want different behavior for a specific project, update your settings before processing that video.

When to adjust Audio Settings

You may want to adjust these settings if:

• You record in noisy environments
• Your microphone captures breathing sounds clearly
• Audio feels unbalanced between speakers
• Your videos contain long pauses you want shortened

These controls allow you to tailor OneTake’s audio processing to match your recording style and environment.

Updated on: 09/02/2026