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Hi I'm having trouble with my importing and i don't no how to isolate audio files from audio/video file formats.
i have several .DV (digital video) formats from my very old digital camera and this may be a stupid question because I'm inexperienced at this kind of thing(I'm only 14) but i need to edit the audio in my files.
whenever i try to open my files it gives me the message "audacity recognized the type of file but was unable to import it
i no that dv is audio/video and i may need to convert it into audio but as i said before I'm kind of inexperienced in this kind of thing.
if there is any advice u can give to me it would be much appreciated

thanks

-Ryoka7

p.s. i am aware of the probable stupidity of my question so please don't ridicule me
thanks again

Audacity is not a terrifically good converter. You pretty much need to arrive in WAV format for all these tools to work right. DV Audio format is 48000, 16-bit, Stereo and if you can strip it out of the mixed file, it should fall right into Audacity. All my sound test files on the web site are in that format, and it's compatible with all the grown-up video formats.

<<<i have several .DV (digital video) formats from my very old digital camera and this may be a stupid question because I'm inexperienced at this kind of thing(I'm only 14) but i need to edit the audio in my files.>>>

How did you get the DV files? There must have been a capture program in there somewhere. Does the capture program have the ability to Export As WAV?

Super and Switch are two programs we point people to for format conversion. Only one is free.

Koz