How to Sample Audio from a Video Clip

Performance & Techniques Music Production
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How to Sample Audio from a Video Clip

Hey guys!

I want to sample the audio from a video clip I have on DVD. What’s the best way to do this?

Cheers!
Zaq

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Okay, there are many ways to do this. What OS is your computer running? What programs will you be using this sample in? Are you trying to rip an entire song or just a cool vocal sample?

You could run a cable from the sound out on a dvd player, into your computers sound card and use a program like audacity to record and edit the sample. This is quick and easy.

Another way would be to use this to rip the DVD to your computer http://handbrake.fr/

Then depending on what OS you use, use software to extract the audio stream, and once again audacity to edit it.

Hope that helped.

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import it into a DAW that supports video editing and export as a wave file

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Dups has the right idea… any one of those will work for sure.

there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to do this all within the computer.

Nuendo handles both audio/video…

but there are a lot of free utilities that will rip DVD audio. Google is your friend

search “rip dvd audio” and behold the wealth of information :slight_smile:

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Easiest way is to play it on your pc and use Audacity to record the audio as it’s playing.
Then chop it in Audacity or your favorite editor

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thanks for all the advice guys! i’m going to try and go the audacity route - seems simple enough.