movie quotes to samples
So I have recently gotten into the whole loop and sound sampling functions in traktor. These are great for little personalized mixes when you are djing. But now I want to take this a step further and take quotes from some of my favorite movies and incorporate them into a set. Does anyone know a way to pull the sound from a movie (ex: a DVD) and convert it to a sound file that I could use it in a set?
Which sound card do you have? It could be as simple as routing the RCA’s from the DVD player to a channel on Traktor, and recording it.
If you have a Mac, you can use Audio Hijack to record from any application. Just play the DVD on your Mac and hijack the DVD player app. The free version will record up to 10 minutes:
Most of the movie clips I used for samples were already up on youTube, so you might be able to bypass the DVD entirely.
like ss19789289183 said, run the audio outs of a dvd player through your soundcards inputs. Make a deck in traktor an input deck and record away. It would probably help to run the video out of the dvd to a monitor or tv for visual reference. Done it before.
lol. That’s my name!
Haha, I just did so. Dropped samples all over the mix.
Here’s what I did:
Ripped the audio-track from the BluRay, converted the dts-file to wave and fired samples off with a MPC 1000 during mixing with CDJs.
This is the result.
Some examples are at the start, 18:20, 28:55 and 42:14.
https://soundcloud.com/hedge/hedgehog-in-the-mix-the-basterd-issue
Yeah, if you have a DVD ripper you should be able to pull the audio file…it’s been ages since I copied a DVD though, I’m not familiar with the software though. Should be easy to find instructions…try the doom9 site.
Actually, here ya go:
route the audio through traktor
Just so you know, you should only take the audio from the Center channel as that’s 99.9% Dialog while FX and MX are all over the L,C,R,Ls & Rs. You’ll still here a little bit of FX & Music in the center channel but mostly Dialog.
off track for a second: hedghog, killer coverart mate 
grabbing that mix for that alone lol
(Sorry for derailing the thread a bit. SirReal is absolutely right, take the midstream urine!)
Thanks dude. Takes forever to do that stuff but still no one wants to listen to it.
I’ve been doing that for a while now:
Excellent point! The dialogue would come out much cleaner that way. This is assuming you have a DVD player with RCA out’s for each channel or a correctly set up receiver.
You should also be aware that it’s technically copyright infringement if you use samples from television and movies but I’d assume lawyers would only come after you if you’re selling a product that uses those samples and not for, spicing up a live mix but I think technically they could still come after you even for that.
There’s a huge gray area when it comes to sampling, but as SirReal said, if you’re not making money, you should be safe.
Also to HedgeHog, the classic house special mix art is crazy! Reminds me a bit of Human Centipede. Ass to ass rather than ass to mouth…
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Originally Posted by SirReal
Just so you know, you should only take the audio from the Center channel as that’s 99.9% Dialog while FX and MX are all over the L,C,R,Ls & Rs. You’ll still here a little bit of FX & Music in the center channel but mostly Dialog.
Excellent point! The dialogue would come out much cleaner that way. This is assuming you have a DVD player with RCA out’s for each channel or a correctly set up receiver. [/quote]
There is always a stereo mix which would come from the RCA output of a DVD player that you could route to a channel on your mixer or depending on your soundcard you could plug into a deck in Traktor as a live input and record…
Yes but the stereo mix would have music and sounf FX mixed with the Dialog. Actually the 2 trk is usually an LtRt and if you run THAT through a dolby decoder you’d get a LCR and mono surround the C would have less music and FX but taking the center channel from the 5.1 mix is the cleanest way to get Dialog that’s not smothered in FX and music. I do this for a living, trust me.
if your movie is in .avi format, whether a dvd rip or whatever. you can extract the audio by dropping the file into an audio editor such as audition.
I have the Traktor Audio 6 so ill try the line out from my dvd player
Above & Beyond’s 02/07/2011 essential mix has a few cool movie quotes in it. A good one is from School Of Rock where the kid asks Jack Black if they’re going to be goofing off every day, and he says they’re creating musical fusion.