Hi Ray,

I still use PD6 but I couldn't find a way to save/export a sound track so I just played the video and recorded the track with an audio editor. Admittedly, it was only a short track so it didn't take much doing, I suppose a 3 hr track migh be a bit of a pain . Anyway that worked for me and I was able to edit it with effects etc OK
Cheers
Adrian Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (see below)
Confucius
AMD Phenom IIX6 1055T, win10, 5 internal drives, 7 usb drives, struggling power supply.

Quote: Hi Ray,

I still use PD6 but I couldn't find a way to save/export a sound track so I just played the video and recorded the track with an audio editor. Admittedly, it was only a short track so it didn't take much doing, I suppose a 3 hr track migh be a bit of a pain . Anyway that worked for me and I was able to edit it with effects etc OK
Cheers
Adrian

Thanks vn...that surely is a way to do it, but you would think there should be a way to save off the audio right from PD? Maybe a new feature?

Yes, it would be good to be able to capture a track, I sometimes find a nice set of sounds that would be good to have as a background (running water, surf etc) but you often need to 'clean it up' a bit, ideal if you could capture, save and export.
maybe next release?
cheers

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (see below)
Confucius
AMD Phenom IIX6 1055T, win10, 5 internal drives, 7 usb drives, struggling power supply.

Quote: Yes, it would be good to be able to capture a track, I sometimes find a nice set of sounds that would be good to have as a background (running water, surf etc) but you often need to 'clean it up' a bit, ideal if you could capture, save and export.
maybe next release?
cheers

There is a feature in Sony Vegas. You can name your audio editor in preferences and then do an Edit Audio! It is pretty neat. I have an
audio editor called Audacity (freeware)...which I am trying to figure out how to use.

Ray

One of the first things I would try on the next project is to shield your mic grill on the camera from the wind. Just about the best thing for killing wind noise is animal fur and some fabric shops have some artificial fur trim with self adhesive backing. A small piece of that might work.

I use an external mic with a Deadcat (No, they don't kill cats for that) windmuff (Deadcat is a brand name). I bought the Rode StereoVideoMic and the price of $249 includes the Deadcat.

There is a limit to how much wind noise that will handle but it works far better than a foam windscreen.

Ray

If all you want is a audio file to work on in Audacity or another audio editor try this in both PD6 & PD7.
1) Go to Produce, Create a Streaming File
2) Select WMV
3) Use the elevator box to select "Windows Media Audio 8 for ISDN (Better than CD Quality, 96Kbps)" Lots of choices but look for Audio in the title.

Jeff

Very neat tip, should have thought of that!
Thanks.

Adrian Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (see below)
Confucius
AMD Phenom IIX6 1055T, win10, 5 internal drives, 7 usb drives, struggling power supply.

There is a really neat application called AOA Audio Extractor. It allows you to grab the audio from any movie and convert it to one of many formats. Best of all - its free!

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