Help Newbie: Can u extract audio from avi file & make it

[marvalpert]

Help Newbie: Can you extract audio from avi file and make it into an mp3.

i have a man talking. I want to have him say the first sentence.then i wan the rest of his speech to go over other pictures in the video.

what is the best way to make a high quality DVD.... do i save as dvd ? video file?

Which is higher resolution? avi or mpeg?

I have little pixels going on and off in the video.. what is that? a person had a digital camera with tape and made me an avi and mpeg file.. which is better to us? is the pixealtion a result of the transer?
marv alpert

[Black Lab]

Whao, hold on ther Marv. One at a time.

Help Newbie: Can you extract audio from avi file and make it into an mp3.

i have a man talking. I want to have him say the first sentence.then i wan the rest of his speech to go over other pictures in the video.

With your clip on the timeline, click Share>Create Audio File. This will create a wav file of the audio. If you really need it in MP3 format you will then have to use another program to convert that.

EDIT: I just re-read your question. For what you want to do you don't have to make a separate audio file. Simply right click on your clip and choose Split Audio. This will mute your video clip and put the audio in the audio track. (If you want the audio back in your video clip simply unmute it.)

what is the best way to make a high quality DVD.... do i save as dvd ? video file?

Many of us recommend that when you are done your editing, go to Share>Create Video File and choose a PAL or NTSC DVD template to make a DVD compatible MPEG2 of your project. When that is done you clear the timeline, then choose Share>Create Disc. This takes you to the burning window where you insert your MPEG2 for burning. We call this the Suggested Workflow. I suggest you read it.

Which is higher resolution? avi or mpeg?

I have little pixels going on and off in the video.. what is that? a person had a digital camera with tape and made me an avi and mpeg file.. which is better to us? is the pixealtion a result of the transer?

When you say avi I assume you mean dv-avi. Uncompressed avi files are around 65GB per hour. The compressed dv-avi is around 13GB per hour. When it comes to editing dv-avi is the way to go. It is basically a lossless format and you will not lose quality when you edit/render. MPEG2, on the other hand, is a lossy format and will degrade with multiple renders.

Please read From Camcorder to DVD - Editing Phase. Here's another: From Camcorder to DVD.

[marvalpert]

how can i tell if the person gave me the hi quality uncompressed avi file vs the compressed one?

Whao, hold on ther Marv. One at a time.

Help Newbie: Can you extract audio from avi file and make it into an mp3.

i have a man talking. I want to have him say the first sentence.then i wan the rest of his speech to go over other pictures in the video.

With your clip on the timeline, click Share>Create Audio File. This will create a wav file of the audio. If you really need it in MP3 format you will then have to use another program to convert that.

EDIT: I just re-read your question. For what you want to do you don't have to make a separate audio file. Simply right click on your clip and choose Split Audio. This will mute your video clip and put the audio in the audio track. (If you want the audio back in your video clip simply unmute it.)

what is the best way to make a high quality DVD.... do i save as dvd ? video file?

Many of us recommend that when you are done your editing, go to Share>Create Video File and choose a PAL or NTSC DVD template to make a DVD compatible MPEG2 of your project. When that is done you clear the timeline, then choose Share>Create Disc. This takes you to the burning window where you insert your MPEG2 for burning. We call this the Suggested Workflow. I suggest you read it.

Which is higher resolution? avi or mpeg?

I have little pixels going on and off in the video.. what is that? a person had a digital camera with tape and made me an avi and mpeg file.. which is better to us? is the pixealtion a result of the transer?

When you say avi I assume you mean dv-avi. Uncompressed avi files are around 65GB per hour. The compressed dv-avi is around 13GB per hour. When it comes to editing dv-avi is the way to go. It is basically a lossless format and you will not lose quality when you edit/render. MPEG2, on the other hand, is a lossy format and will degrade with multiple renders.

Please read From Camcorder to DVD - Editing Phase. Here's another: From Camcorder to DVD.

[Ken Berry]

With Video Studio open, right click on one of the files in the library pane or in the timeline and copy down all its Properties here. That will contain the information about which type of file you have. But essentially, if you have a very large file (65 GB for one hour of video), it will be uncompressed AVI. But if you have an hour of video and it takes up 13 GB, it will be DV/AVI.

[Black Lab]

And it's not going to really matter whether it's uncompressed or compressed, except for the amount of space it will take up on your HD. You edit an uncompressed avi just as well as a dv-avi.