How to extract sound effects from movies?

When you are watching a video or movie online and have a strong interest in background music or some classic lines, you might wonder how to extract audio from video. Then what you need is a high-quality audio extractor software that can help you get music or lines from videos.

However, there are hundreds of audio extractors on the web, so you start to wonder which audio extractor to choose? To help you make a wise choice, this article has tested those well-known audio extractors and lists the 8 best audio extractors, including the best audio extractor developed by MiniTool.

There are so many audio extractors on the market. Here summarize the best 8 audio extractors to help you extract audio from video with ease. Let’s check out them one by one.

MiniTool MovieMaker, developed by MiniTool, is a free video editor with no ads, no viruses and no registration required. Besides the video editing tools, you can perfect your audio files with audio editing tools such as volume adjustment, background noise removal, audio merger, apply audio fade in and fade out effects, and of course, extract audio from video.

It is extremely easy-to-use because of its simple and intuitive operation interface. You just need to input your video file, choose the desired audio format and then export it to your device. It supports extracting audio from various video formats, including RMVB, 3GP, MOV, AVI, FLV, MKV, MP4, MPG, VOB and WMV.

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If you are running Windows 7 or Windows 8 and have installed Windows Movie Maker, then you already have a free audio extractor on your computer. The second audio extractor that we recommend is the Windows Movie Maker from Microsoft, which can also help you extract audio from video quickly.

Windows Movie Maker is a free yet professional video maker released by Microsoft. Meanwhile, it is a great audio extractor. The process of extracting audio from videos on Windows Movie Maker is easy. After adding videos to the movie maker, just click File > Save movie, and select the Audio Only option.

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Pazera Free Audio Extractor is a universal audio converter, whose main purpose is to help users to extract audio from the video file without any quality loss and save it as MP3, AAC, WMA, FLAC, OGG, M4A, AIFF or WAV, etc.

The interface of Pazera Free Audio Extractor is very simple and user-friendly. To extract audio from video, just drag and drop the video into the main window, select an audio format from the list, and click Convert. Besides, the advanced users can customize audio encoding parameters used by encoder: audio bitrate, sampling frequency, audio channels, audio volume.

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Free Audio Editor is another audio extractor. As the name suggests, it is a free audio recorder and editing software. The tool supports more than 25 audio formats, and you can save the extracted audio files to MP3, WAV, OGG and other formats.

The tool interface is simple and easy to use. You can use it to record and edit audio. You can also use this tool to cut, trim or copy any audio file. In addition to being an audio extractor, it supports downloading YouTube videos and then separating audio from them.

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As a convenient and powerful online video editor, Online Audio Extractor is also one of the best online free audio extractors. Of course, you can also choose its desktop version. This excellent tool works with almost all video formats (such as AVI, MPG, M4V, WEBM, WMV, MP4, MOV, etc.).

This online audio extractor allows you to separate the audio from your video in one click without any quality loss. You can extract audio from a specific time period in the video by dragging the slider or entering the start and end times. BeeCut is a versatile program that can also be used to extract audio from YouTube videos.

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Power Audio Extractor is an easy-to-use suite that allows you to extract audio streams from video clips and save them in popular formats such as WMA, MP3, WMA, OGG, AAC, M4A, FLAC, etc. You can also use it to convert audio tracks or video clips to other types.

This audio extractor supports many video formats, such as AVI, MPEG, MP4, FLV, SWF, RMVB, WMV, ASF, 3GP, MOV and allows you to edit video files, such as trimming, cropping, rotating, delaying, etc. It also integrates settings to download YouTube clips directly.

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TunesKit Audio Capture is a versatile, easy-to-use and multi-track audio recording software and a powerful audio extractor. With this tool, you can extract all the audio playing on your computer, such as streaming music, radio, background music in movies, etc.

After completing audio extraction, you can save them in different formats including MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, M4A and M4B. The extracted content will retain the sound quality of the original audio. However, since TunesKit Audio Capture needs to capture audio, you need to play the file from beginning to end to extract the audio completely, which may take some time.

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Audio-Extractor.net is a flexible and easy-to-use audio extractor. Just upload the video and select the desired audio format to get the extracted audio. It offers a surprising number of audio formats such as MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG, MP2 and AMP.

This audio extractor even provides iPhone ringtone as an output audio format, which greatly facilitates users who want to extract audio for iPhone ringtones. However, online audio extractors can only extract audio from videos you upload locally.

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Since we have discussed several excellent audio extractors, let’s talk about the best YouTube audio extractor – MiniTool uTube Downloader. You might wonder why it is the best YouTube audio extractor. Read the following to get the answer.

MiniTool uTube Downloader, a free 4K YouTube video downloader for downloading YouTube videos or extracting audio from video. The tool is free to use without any viruses, advertisements or bundled software and does not require registration of an account.

It will save these extracted audio files like MP3 or WAV format without any quality loss on the computer. It can even easily download an entire YouTube playlist and extract audio from it.

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Finding the right audio extractor can be a daunting task. This article introduces 10 best audio extractors to help you extract audio from video and save it on your device. Choose one according to your requirements or preferences.

If you find yourself in trouble, using MiniTool MovieMaker is always a wise choice. If you have any questions or suggestions about it, please let us know via [email protected] or share them in the comments section below.

• Upload or record your video. Upload your video or start recording using our built-in webcam recorder. You can also drag and drop your files into the editor.
• Extract audio. Click on your video on the editor and toggle on the Extract Audio button.
• Export. You're done.

Step-by-step guide on how to extract music from DVD and videos and save to audio track:

Step 1. Run the software and load Videos or DVD(s) to the Video DVD Audio Extractor.

To import AVI, MKV, MP4, WMV, MPEG, MPG, FLV, MOV, MP4, 3GP videos, click “Add Video” and browse to source. To load DVD, just place the DVDs in optical drive and click “Load DVD” to import DVD movie.

Step 2. Set output audio format from the “Format” bar.

Click on the “Format” bar and choose “Common Audio”, here you find MP3 and various other audio formats (wav, m4a, ogg, ac3, wma, aac, au, aiff, mp2, flac, mka) for you to choose from. To extract ringtones for smartphones (iPhone 4 for example), you can select M4A- MPEG-4 Audio(*.m4a).

Step 3. Extract MP3/ WMA audio from DVD and videos.

Click the "Convert" button and the Audio Extractor will convert audio from DVDs and video files and output them to MP3/ WMA or other desired audio format. If you’d like to combine all the selected chapters into one file, simply check “Merge into one” box.

Tip 1: how to split video/ extract certain duration from video clip, instead of full-length?

This is a very basic but pretty helpful editing feature. It is very simple to extract partial length of sound track from videos with Pavtube Video DVD Extractor. Simply use the Trim function in the Editor of the Video/DVD to Audio Converter. Select the item you want to trim, click “Edit” button, then switch to “Trim” tab to set start and end time. Always trim the video before setting output format.

The picture above reveals that I cut the video length from 55 secs down to 30 secs. I then back to the main interface of Video/DVD to Audio Converter, set output format as MP3, and click “Convert”. Few seconds later, I get an MP3 file of 30 secs.

Tip 2: How to extract multiple audio tracks as one file?

To extract multiple audio tracks as one file, just check the box “Merge into one file” before the software starts extracting audios.

What else can the Pavtube Video DVD Converter Ultimate do for you?

The software also backs up DVDs and converts videos of above mentioned format to VOB, AVI, MKV, MP4, MOV, M4V, WMV, TS, MPG, etc with preset for PS3, Xbox, PSP, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Android smart phones, Windows Phone 7 playback, PPT presentation, and editing in Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Pinnacle Studio, Avid MC and other video editing software. Besides, the Video DVD Converter Ultimate allows you to crop out black bars, watermark your video clips, trim out unwanted frames, replace the original audio track with favorable music, etc. If you’d like to convert DVD and videos, purchase a license from here.

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Audacity can't edit videos, but it can edit the audio from videos. It's easy to import audio into an audio-editor for grabbing sound clips. I found this to be better than my previous analog recording workflow.

This is especially useful for podcasters who review movies, discuss TV shows, or need an audio excerpt from a video.

Separate video edition (completely different recording session) coming soon!

Audacity works best with MP4 videos, but other QuickTime formats work on OS X, too.

Videos with digital-rights management (DRM) can't be opened by Audacity. So if you have one of these and you have legal plans to use the audio clip for the sake of commentary, review, or criticism, then find a tool to remove the DRM and convert your video to MP4.

Learn what podcasters need to know about copyright laws from my previous episode with Gordon Firemark.

By default, Audacity can't open video files. Simply install the free FFmpeg plugin to allow Audacity to import and export many more audio and video formats.

With Audacity setup and your video free of DRM, simply drag it into an Audacity window to have Audacity convert the audio for use.

You may want to save this audio if you ever want to edit it again, or you can discard it.

For convenience, you can normalize your audio and convert it to mono (if your podcast will be in mono). This will make it easier to see and hear the audio as you edit, but it's note important to the quality of the audio.

Watch your video to find the clip you want and look at the time. If you know you want the audio from 12 minutes in, go to 00:12:00 in your audio and select as much as you want.

When you have audio selected, you can press play (Spacebar) to hear just your selection. Include about half to a whole second of extra audio (but no extra words) at the beginning and end.

With your excerpt selected, there are three ways you can extract it for your use.

This is the easiest method for batch processing because you're working with all clips in a single project.

This is the quickest way to make and name your clips as you go.

This is best for editing each clip independently and getting a close-up view of your audio.

Leave about half to a whole second at the beginning and end of your audio clip.

You may want to edit the inside of your audio for conciseness, relevance, or clarity. For example:

After you've edited your audio clip, then normalize it. I recommend to -1dB or even -0.1dB. Audio from professionally made movies and TV shows are usually already processed to how they need to be. And since most videos have ambiant noise, many audio enhancements (like compression and limiting) can enhance the wrong parts and make your audio harder to hear.

Normalization increases the whole volume of the track until the loudest point is a certain amplitude (volume). Because these peaks may be rare, it may be all right if that target amplitude is higher than you would normally prefer (such as a character yells).

After you've normalized the audio, then I suggest some subtle fades in and out. These shouldn't be very long, but they can make the inclusion of the audio clip much smoother.

Simple select as much audio that you want to fade at the beginning or end of your clip, then go to the Effects menu and choose Fade In or Fade Out, respectively. The more audio you select for your fade, the slower the fade will be.

I recommend 1/4–1/2 a second for a fade, but sometimes a full second for fade-in can be good.

Fades are especially great for music clips.

When you're finished, export your clips as uncompressed WAV files. These work great for either “direct-to-drive” recorder or post-production. I always recommend working with uncompressed audio until you make the final MP3.

Rob Greenlee is still managing podcasts for Microsoft, but there's a new email address for adding or updating your podcasts in the Zune/Windows Phone directory.

Just email your RSS feed to podcasts@microsoft.com. If you're updating podcast information (like your cover art, description, title, or feed URL), mention that in your email.

The core software to successful blogging or podcasting is WordPress. But if you don't know how to use it, you'll struggle with building your online platform. Tickets are now on sale for my next “Learn WordPress” webinar on Saturday, April 27 at noon (EDT/GMT-4).

My first Audacity webinar was a great success and was highly praised. This is where I teach the basics and some of the more advanced techniques of using Audacity for podcasting and other audio-editing. If you want to edit your own audio for high quality and with efficiency, then join me for my “Learn Audacity” webinar on Saturday, May 18, at noon (EDT/GMT-4).

Tickets are $100 for either of these 2-hour webinars (including Q&A), or $175 for both. Reserve your space today!

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