Audacity crashes when importing a video file

[matthewlowery]

I'm trying to import a screencast (.mov) to change my voice on it, but every time i try it crashes. Any help?

[kozikowski]

Audacity does not recognize video files. You'll need to strip out the sound track with maybe MPEG Streamclip from Apple and then edit it in Audcity. Then Export a repaired sound file and reintegrate it with your picture. I think you can do that in QuickTime Pro.

Koz

[steve]

You may be able to Import it into Audacity 1.3.8 if you have ffmpeg installed. I've just tried importing a Quicktime .MOV file into Audacity 1.3.8 on Linux and it imported (audio only) correctly.

[kozikowski]

Gasp. I need to lie down for a minute.....

Of course, that's assuming the original QuickTime was made with a codec that ffmpeg understands.....

Can you put the track back the same way?

Koz

[steve]

Can you put the track back the same way?

You can't put it back into a video the same way, but you can Export as a .MOV file

Oh my, I think I need to lie down now....

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[kozikowski]

See what fun video is?

I brought up QuickTime Pro because I have used that to marry a WAV file and a video-only file.

Koz