Pulling Audio Snippets

RexA wrote on 11/16/2003, 4:22 AM

I have a video project and I want to extract several short portions of the audio as wave files to use elsewhere. I thought I could select a region and open it in an audio editor (using the Vegas tool) but it seems It will only pass the whole audio event. I can split the audio event to isolate the section I want but that seems like overkill to me.

Is there an easy method I have missed to select and pull out portions of the audio to separate files?

Comments

farss wrote on 11/16/2003, 4:57 AM

I think by one means or another you need to render the section you want to work on as a separate file and then have the editor work on that.

Spot|DSE wrote on 11/16/2003, 5:48 AM

You can highlight those sections, copy/paste them elsewhere. You'll need to be sure that the AUDIO is selected when doing this. If you are having trouble selecting just audio, open the file in the Trimmer by right clicking it on the timeline, then select only the audio there, drag it to it's new location.

RexA wrote on 11/16/2003, 9:18 PM

Thanks for the reply.

My problem seems to be finding a way to select just a section of audio that I want. I could open just the audio file in an audio editor and cut out the sections I want.

I'm trying to do it in Vegas because the video timeline gives me clues where the audio parts I want are located. I've selected a loop region which seems to highlight the portion of audio I want. My problem is that when I right-click on the region to send it to the audio editor or the trimmer, as soon as I right-click the selection expands to the whole audio event.

I can't seem to find a way to select just a portion of the audio from the timeline. I could use the time I see in Vegas as an index, but I have done lots of edits so the time won't match if I open the whole wave file.

Seems like this should be easy, but I can't seem to find a way to select what I want easily.

Actually, I think I just found a way that will work. I select the region I want then hit S which seems to split it on both ends. Now that the region is split out I can copy or edit it. The only problem is that I then need to undo the splits because I don't really want them.

Spot|DSE wrote on 11/16/2003, 10:46 PM

Sorry, I misunderstood, I thought you wanted to merely copy/paste audio from a given section. Using selection trim works great, but you do need to split a file section out to open only that section in an external editor, unless you select Open Copy.