Is it possible to get the audio from my video into Audacity?

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Hello,

I have Audacity 2.0.1 on Windows 7. I am a bit of an Audacity stupidun so bear with me. I think this is quite a simple question though -

I have recorded an electric guitar cover on a digital camera. How can I get the audio from this into Audacity so I can put the real song in aswell? I am using Windows Live Movie Maker if that means anything.

Thank you.

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Use your existing video editor to Export the sound track. Audacity will recognize many different sound formats if you install the FFMpeg software.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Edit in 48000, 16-bit, stereo. That’s the video standard. When you’re done, Export as Microsoft WAV and that file should drop right back into your editor.

Koz

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You may be able to simply open the audio/video file in Audacity to get the audio. You’ll probably need to install the FFMPEG Import/Export library, which you can get from the [u]download page[/u].

However, if you want to get the new-edited & saved (exported) audio back into the audio/video file, you’ll need to use a video editor. Audacity will only read-in the audio, and if you export the file from Audacity, you’ll get an audio-only file.