Using only the audio from a video

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I know this sounds like a stupid question, but is there a way to not use the
video and only the sound from a captured video? I'd like to combine the audio
track from one video clip and the video from another video clip into the same
movie. Make sense?
 
I use freeware Audacity or WavePad to record with the What You Hear option.
Open the audio software and something - e.g. Movie Maker - to play your file.
Start recording, then start playing your file. At the end you'll have a WAV
file with a few seconds of silence followed by the audio from your file.

There should be a simpler way, and MS claims that there is. In KB article
314575, it is stated that you can use MM to "record [capture] video only,
audio only, or both video and audio". That would be convenient if true.
Unfortunately my MM [version 2.1.4026.0] never displays the Record dialog
shown in the article. All I get is a Video Capture Wizard with choices more
limited than what's shown in the article.

Photoman
 
You can download WM encoder from microsoft,in the encoder select,convert
file,then select target file,run the conversion with audio only.
 
Thank you, Andrew E, for that great hint. Your very compact message was not
easy to understand but I finally figured it out. Now I can 'rip' the audio
track from a clip into a wma file, use WavePad to convert from wma to wav,
mess with it, and reinsert the modified audio into the clip without any
synchronization problems.

Thanks!

Photoman
 
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