Using Audacity for Quicktime Videos

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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Hello all,

I create online courses and need Audacity for editing the sound in my videos. My videos are Keynote voiceovers edited with Quicktime 10.4.

I am able to open the Quicktime Video audio file in Audacity and do the Fade in Fade out and noise reduction etc, but how do I get the audio changes back into the Quicktime video?!

I have Quicktime Player 10.4, OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 and Audacity 2.1.3.

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I don’t speak Mac, but the free multi-platform video-editor Avidemux can do that,
see … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS1zl_SMRbk

Although you may not need extra software

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So Audacity + Quicktime does not work? You need additional software?

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QuickTime is not our product. Please refer to the QuikTime manual for help with QuickTime. https://support.apple.com/en_US/manuals/quicktime

Audacity is an audio recording and editing application. Audacity does not edit video, although Audacity may be able to import the audio data from video files if you have the necessary codecs installed (usually required FFmpeg).

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I just opened the QuickTime video that I wanted to add the the audacity audio to and dragged and dropped onto the opened video and QuickTime did the rest super easy (I don’t know all of the audio sources it accepts but Wav works).

others: If you don’t know the answer then don’t answer, QuickTime may not be your product but audacity is and QuickTime users may be using it. I for one did a google search to find the answer which directed me to this thread. After seeing the unhelpful replies (which is shocking), I was determined to figured it out. I’m happy to help other members whether its an audacity product or not THE AUDACITY OF YOU.

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We are very happy to help people with Audacity.

I am not able to help people with QuickTime as I never use it, but I am able to indicate where they can find help with QuickTime, namely the official QuickTime support channel from Apple: Apple - Support - Manuals

Although Trebor does not use a Mac himself, the first link that he posted (a little over an hour after the original post) appear to provide sufficient information to get the job done with “Avidimux”. His second link is a bit lacking in detail, but the official QuickTime documentation should fill in the blanks.

This forum sometimes becomes very busy, so we don’t always have time to research detailed answers about using third party software, but where possible we make every effort to at least point users towards where they may find answers - for third party software, that is usually the official support channel for that software.