Using only the audio from a video

[Guest]

I know this sounds like a stupid question, but is there a way to not use the
video and only the sound from a captured video? I'd like to combine the audio
track from one video clip and the video from another video clip into the same
movie. Make sense?

 

[Guest]

I use freeware Audacity or WavePad to record with the What You Hear option.
Open the audio software and something - e.g. Movie Maker - to play your file.
Start recording, then start playing your file. At the end you'll have a WAV
file with a few seconds of silence followed by the audio from your file.

There should be a simpler way, and MS claims that there is. In KB article
314575, it is stated that you can use MM to "record [capture] video only,
audio only, or both video and audio". That would be convenient if true.
Unfortunately my MM [version 2.1.4026.0] never displays the Record dialog
shown in the article. All I get is a Video Capture Wizard with choices more
limited than what's shown in the article.

Photoman

 

[Guest]

You can download WM encoder from microsoft,in the encoder select,convert
file,then select target file,run the conversion with audio only.

 

[Graham Hughes]

If you are using movie maker, just drop the video file on the audio/music
track, it automatically becomes audio only. This also works with some other
apps.

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

 

[Guest]

Thank you, Andrew E, for that great hint. Your very compact message was not
easy to understand but I finally figured it out. Now I can 'rip' the audio
track from a clip into a wma file, use WavePad to convert from wma to wav,
mess with it, and reinsert the modified audio into the clip without any
synchronization problems.

Thanks!

Photoman