What's the best way to capture, then edit, audio from an avi file? I want to use some of the music from the roll of the end credits to add to my menu's at the beginning of my my movie.
Drag the AVI onto Avidemux.
1,2.Select the clip/play using the A/B buttons .
3.Choose to copy the audio (or select a different format for further editing).
4.Save the audio clip - give it a full name (if you selected wav format, call the file clip.wav).
The clip can be further edited using the likes of Audacity.
I did something wrong! I was able to navigate to the section of the AVI that I wanted to capture, the rolling of the end credits. I assumed when you mentioned the "A" and the "B", that they were used for setting a start and an end frame time, correct?
I set my beginning copy frame and my end using this method, saved it as an mp3 and used the full path while saving it, however when I went to play it back in Media Monkey, it would not play.
I also saw that it was like an 80 MB MP3 file and I assume that's because it had a video stream in it. BUt might that be why I could not play it back? Can't figure out what I did wrong!
Also how do you clear the setting for the "A" and the "B" if you mess up without closing the program out and starting over again. Also you said "3.Choose to copy the audio (or select a different format for further editing)" Did not understand that part.
The Audio menu (on the left) has a drop down selection.
Either select 'Copy' - which is the original format - or select another format.
If the file is to be further edited it should be saved as a wav.
The A/B buttons are used to select the start and end of the clip.
When you save the clip using the top menu 'Audio' - only the audio is saved, not the video.
Sorry to be slow in getting this...Just a few more questions...You said
"When you save the clip using the top menu 'Audio' - only the audio is saved, not the video." What did you mean by "top menu".
Also, in the last screen shot, it looks like the "copy" function for video is greyed-out, which, I imagine is where you want it to be. I can't get mine to do that!
Avidemux has two menus - the traditional menu at the top and a separate menu on the left side panel.
The menus overlap functions to some extent.
Dragging a file onto Avidemux, the left side menu defaults to 'Copy'.
If you wished to select a clip of the video to save as a separate file, you would normally copy the video, audio and format - no recoding involved.
If you change the 'Format' menu (bottom left), the 'Video' menu becomes available.
In your case, you can leave the Audio at copy and the selected audio clip will be saved in it's present format (mp3, AC3, etc) - by choosing to save the audio as a wav file, you can more easily edit it later.
So in other words disregard that screen shot where I saw the video function greyed out? That's not going to happen with what I'm doing right?
I was finally able to get a wav file to play in Media Monkey, but when I tried to import it into Audacity, it would not load all of the way. It just sat there at about 50%! Also I noticed in the import window it said "importing MP3" even though I know for certain that it was a wave file. Can't explain that!
Also I'm still a little confused on this whole process. Isn't there any way to extract just the audio file, not the audio file with video in it. I'm just guessing but it seems that is what I'm getting when I save these large wav and mp3 files. I mean a normal mp3 is like 5 MB's or smaller right, but there files that I clip are like 50 MB's for an MP3 and even higher for a wav!
Also, in regards to Audacity...Are you saying that you can't edit an MP3 file in Audacity? I know that I have before.
When you click 'Audio' and save the file, only the audio portion is being saved.
The size of the file will be many times larger if saved as uncompressed wav.
Audacity can (I think) load an mp3, but requires the Lamemp3 encoder to export the file.
