How to remove or overwrite audio?

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kileyheidtbrink

How to remove or overwrite audio?

Post by kileyheidtbrink »

Hi, my friend had a video made of her wedding and she wants me to somehow be able to remove the music or overwrite it so I can put the music that she wants on it, so I told her that I might be able to do that with my program it is old but I thought it would be able to do that, I have ulead video studio 5 but am not sure how to do this. Any kind of help would be great or if someone knows another place to look would be great.
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Post by Ken Berry »

I have never used VS5 -- I only started with VS7 -- but I am pretty sure you can still do what you want. If your friend wants to get rid of all the original audio, then click on either the Edit or the Audio tab which I think will be along the top of the screen. On that screen there will be a little box which normally will have 100 in it. That is the audio box: lowering the number below 100 reduces the volume, with 0 being silence. To the right of that box, though, there should be a tiny loudspeaker icon and if you click on it, it will mute the audio in one go.

If you only want to mute the audio in parts of the video, then you have to make cuts so that you have a separate video clip for each of those parts. Then choose either of the methods above to mute the audio.

Then you use the command 'Insert Audio' to insert the music (or voiceover comment) you want in the music or voice tracks in the timeline.
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Post by heinz-oz »

Great Kiley, your friend has a video of her wedding and wants you to replace the music.

Now, what format is this video? On tape, CD or DVD? Commercially made by a professional?

Does she want to get rid of the complete sound track or just the music? if just the music, forget it. The sound track is just one stream. To remove only the music is impossible, especially with VS 5. I don't know of any consumer level software that would allow you to filter music from a sound file and leave narration, background noises etc.

You can however reduce the sound volume to zero and add another sound track to the video if, in fact, you can get it into VS in the first place.

Commercially produced videos may have copy protection, preventing you from doing what you want to do.
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