Getting audio out of a video

Hey Everyone,

I wanted to try and score to some movie parts and/or trailers. Before I can do that, I need to ofcourse get the audio out of the images. Now I know how to do that, however, I don't know if there are ways to keep the lines by the actors in. Is it possible to do that? I could imagine that the lines are mostly in different frequencies, so that means filtering with frequencies should do the trick, but how is that done easily?

Any help would be appreciated :)

Kind regards,

Hugo

Well, extract the audio with softwares like Adobe Audition, (probably to rip the DVD first, or try directly from .VOB files) and then...

the common Karaoke problem ... there are many filters (including the ones in Audition) that say they can do it, but the music will be affected, there's no way to remove the voices without touching the music, and this time will be even more difficult because the soundtrack surely have other noises, effects etc.

The karaoke filters usually work like this, the frequencies that are equally repeated in channels right and left, is called "Center Channel" and that is what the filter will remove, assumng the other instruments are sent more to right, or more to left, that method usually doesn't work good enough.

Vocal removers

I really recommend you to try to get the soundtrack in CD or search for it in Google, or the very best thing you can do, train you ear and listen carefully, you brain is the best filter ever created.

SYS65 read the question again ;)

Truth is: this can't be done. A film mix is more complex than music with regards to the voice, so the karaoke trick won't work. My suggestion: find scenes that doesn't have music, that you feel could use music. This can be found in lightly scored movies like The Birds for example (has no music)

Well, i'll tell you that I read again and I find the syntax is kinda confusing for me, besides I don't know what happens but is like the part of my brain processes the languages gets hot or something, and I begin to confuse things

well thanks anyway for the fast responses guys. I think I'll do then with bryla's suggestion :). Or just search for a scene with no lines by the authors!

About the vocal removers: Will these vocals be saved, or is there a possibility to do this? Then it ís ofcourse possible to get only the music out. Question is how much the voices still have music in the same track..

well almost all lines are written by the authors - except for some ad libs.

One of the hardest disciplines in film scoring is handling dialog, so I wouldn't search for a scene without dialog.

You know what could be fun? Take out all audio and afterwards get yourself a couple of friends to re-record the lines of the actors :)

Haah, that'd be funny, I might even try and do that ^_^

Actually, in some situations it's possible to separate out the music from the dialogue by ripping each track of a 5.1 mix separately. I've done it before with varying degrees of success. You'll need to have the DVD and it'll need to be mixed in surround. Google around for instructions, it's a pretty common request.