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longzhilin
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May 17, 2011
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May I extract an audio from video?

  • May 17, 2011
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I want to extract the audio from a video, but I don't want to import that video to audition. Can I do that?

I am working on Audition CS5.5

Thank you!

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    Correct answer Ron_Day

    Thanks a LOT for this indeed revealing post, Steve, because it made me understand things I wasn't able to since the 5.5 demo came out. I had no answer to the question how on earth anyone thought it was possible to do serious audio-for-video work with a program in which the priority of video output is lower than that of clip representation on the timeline (leading to skipping frames, freezing video playback, etc). Now I got the answer: you weren't supposed to. I'm feeling much better now, because this concludes several days of frustration. Thanks again.


    Hey Guys,

    Maybe I'm misunderstanding here, but the simple act of opening a video asset will give you this behavior. When a video asset is opened into Audition CS5.5, we automatically split the stream into the video and audio portion.

    Yes, this means you have the video stream in your files panel as well but you can simply close it or ignore it if you won't be needing it.

    The audio portion can be edited and saved as a single audio asset just like it could in Audition 3 and earlier.

    Please let me know if I misunderstood the purpose here.

    Thanks,

    --Ron

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    Bob Howes
    Bob Howes
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    December 7, 2016

    Please note that this thread is more than 5 years old and both Audition's video capabilities and the ability to interchange files with Premiere Pro and AME are greatly changed.  I'd suggest than any future video questions start their own new thread.

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    longzhilinAuthor
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    May 18, 2011

    Hi guys,

    Thank you for your reply. I understand this function I think.

    Thank you!

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    Steve C2
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    May 17, 2011

    Hi Longzhilin,

    While I haven't tried that, yet, you certainly should be able to split your video clip into separate audio and video within your NLE and then export your audio.

    Then, close your NLE and import your audio into Audition.  If you are using Premiere Pro CS 5.5, you might be able to export your audio directly into Audition via Adobe Dynamic Link, or some other method, but I haven't seen the newest Premiere Pro, yet.

    Perhaps, someone else can comment, too.

    Steve

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    May 17, 2011

    Hmm... With AA4 in its present incarnation, doing this outside the CS suite doesn't appear to be possible at all. There is no 'extract audio from video' facility in either EV or MV, and it's not available as an import option as far as I can see, so you would have to arrange to do this externally. Or use AA3.0.1, which of course will do this.

    The feeling at present seems to be that if you have Audition in the CS, then its actual video handling as such isn't quite as important as it might have been, and I think I'd agree with the principle, at least. But in practice, it's different. There has been feedback from video editors who point out (quite reasonably) that if you are going to do things like voiceover work, or even foley, having the ability to handle the entire job, synched accurately, within the audio editor is indeed a very useful facility. On that basis alone, I would expect this to return at some stage in the future.

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    Brent_C_N_
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    May 17, 2011

    Thanks a LOT for this indeed revealing post, Steve, because it made me understand things I wasn't able to since the 5.5 demo came out. I had no answer to the question how on earth anyone thought it was possible to do serious audio-for-video work with a program in which the priority of video output is lower than that of clip representation on the timeline (leading to skipping frames, freezing video playback, etc). Now I got the answer: you weren't supposed to. I'm feeling much better now, because this concludes several days of frustration. Thanks again.

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