remove music from audio track?

Is there a way to remove the music from the audio track of a video file and
still leave the audio where people are speaking? For example, if you're
watching a documentary video that plays some really loud and annoying music
while people are talking, is there a way to mute the music but still hear
the people talking?

Swifty
Sun Apr 20 23:37:27 PDT 2008

Spaz wrote:
> Is there a way to remove the music from the audio track of a video file
> and still leave the audio where people are speaking? For example, if
> you're watching a documentary video that plays some really loud and
> annoying music while people are talking, is there a way to mute the
> music but still hear the people talking?

WMP11 has a "Karaoke" setting which does just that. Look in "Special
Effects".

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John
Mon Apr 21 03:30:26 PDT 2008

Spaz wrote:
> Is there a way to remove the music from the audio track of a video file
> and still leave the audio where people are speaking? For example, if
> you're watching a documentary video that plays some really loud and
> annoying music while people are talking, is there a way to mute the
> music but still hear the people talking?

If you mean the music is playing at the same time people are talking,
then no I'm afraid that's not possible.

John.

ianmac
Mon Apr 21 05:38:03 PDT 2008

Hi, I have made up a movie of an art exhibition opening and there are 2
people talking on the 1st half--intros etc..and I have added music for the
rest of the movie which is panning over the artists work but the background
noise on the clip isloud. Is there any way to turn off the original sound so
that my added music will be on it's own?

"John" wrote:

> Spaz wrote:
> > Is there a way to remove the music from the audio track of a video file
> > and still leave the audio where people are speaking? For example, if
> > you're watching a documentary video that plays some really loud and
> > annoying music while people are talking, is there a way to mute the
> > music but still hear the people talking?
>
> If you mean the music is playing at the same time people are talking,
> then no I'm afraid that's not possible.
>
> John.
>

Spaz
Mon Apr 21 08:52:41 PDT 2008

"John" <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote in message
news:6738m1F2h7d5jU1@mid.individual.net...
>
> If you mean the music is playing at the same time people are talking, then
> no I'm afraid that's not possible.
>

Ya, like let's say you have a DVD documentary from the History Channel and
you want to remove the annoying background music and keep the narrator's
voice only. Not possible?

ianmac
Mon Apr 21 12:06:00 PDT 2008

No It's not what I was getting at. I filmed the Art opening with the
introductions by the 2 people at the beginning. Iwant to keep the
introductions but Iwould like to turn off the audio of the rest of the film
so that the audio mp3file I have added can play on its own without the
general hubbub in the background. It works fine with the added audio but it
would be nice to be able to turn off the 2nd half of my original filmed
audio. Maybe it is not possible..it seems like such a simple thing that WMM
have not added?

"Spaz" wrote:

> "John" <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:6738m1F2h7d5jU1@mid.individual.net...
> >
> > If you mean the music is playing at the same time people are talking, then
> > no I'm afraid that's not possible.
> >
>
> Ya, like let's say you have a DVD documentary from the History Channel and
> you want to remove the annoying background music and keep the narrator's
> voice only. Not possible?
>
>

Todd
Mon Apr 21 12:11:29 PDT 2008


"ianmac" <ianmac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1E9A0B2B-1B54-4946-AFA2-402E125BBE86@microsoft.com...
> No It's not what I was getting at. I filmed the Art opening with the
> introductions by the 2 people at the beginning. Iwant to keep the
> introductions but Iwould like to turn off the audio of the rest of the
> film
> so that the audio mp3file I have added can play on its own without the
> general hubbub in the background. It works fine with the added audio but
> it
> would be nice to be able to turn off the 2nd half of my original filmed
> audio. Maybe it is not possible..it seems like such a simple thing that
> WMM
> have not added?


The trick would be to remove the unwanted audio from the original film in
WMM BEFORE you add your MP3 soundtrack. Once the new audio is overlayed on
the old, it's too late.

Neil
Tue Apr 29 15:45:55 PDT 2008

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:24:45 -0700, "Spaz" <yeah@right.com> wrote:

>Is there a way to remove the music from the audio track of a video file and
>still leave the audio where people are speaking? For example, if you're
>watching a documentary video that plays some really loud and annoying music
>while people are talking, is there a way to mute the music but still hear
>the people talking?


About all you can do is break out the audio track, and process it
heavily.

For example if you can break out the audio track to a WAV file, then
programs like Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ may be able to
apply EQ (equalisation) to boost the speech frequencies at about
400-4khz and reduce the background frequencies - typically you'd use a
Notch filter to do those steps/=-

That can help to can the bassy / high treble which often appears in
music - effectively you can de-emhpasise it a bit with EQ but not
eliminate it of course.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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