Extracting Audio

[Jay]

Greetings! Is there a way to extract or "rip" audio from an AVI file using
Moviemaker, then add it back again? I successfully slowed down the video
part, muted the soundtrack so it doesn't play at half speed, but I'd like to
overlay the original audio twice, end to end. I was able to do it using
another program, but my machine crashed this a.m. (anyone know a good data
recovery place?) and I need to deliver this as part of a presentation.

Thanks,

 

[Gene A]

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When you say "crashed" do you mean the
hard drive failed? What data do you need
to recover?

In Timeline view...just drag a second copy
of the video clip to the Audio/Music track.

Also you can save the audio as a separate
..wma file:

In Windows Movie Maker....
To save only the audio track of a video clip...
drag the video to the "Audio/Music" track.
Then go to...File / Save Movie File / ect...ect......

This will result in a .wma audio file. Be sure
to drag the clip all the way to the left on the
timeline or you will have dead air at the
beginning.

--

John Inzer
MS Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

John: I imported a wma audio file and edited out the parts I didn't want, and have it sitting in the time line. There is no video. How do I save the edited version as a wma file? Selecting save project as and changing the extension to wma doesn't work.
Gene

 

[Jay]

When I started my computer this afternoon, I was greeted with a blue screen
with error code 0x00000000 et al, with a message about win32k.exe. After
some troubleshooting over the phone with Dell, the tech advised a system
restore. Unfortunately for me, I haven't backed up my data (this video
project, some important Word docs, some pics of my son) in a few weeks, and
I'd rather not lose it all.

Thank you for the help with this and the slowing down issue. I'm going to
try this on another machine now.

 

[Graham Hughes]

YOU don't want to save the project, but the movie file,
file
save movie file
then choose your options and if you don't have any video in the timeline it
will give you audio only options