Seperating audio from video

Ok i have done a wee bit looking around and I have found a fairly decent programme to seperate audio from video that ties up to the Youtube downloader I mentioned a few days back. As I was wanting this programme to convert video to audio for my son to put on his phone I have had to convert the file twice to achieve what I wanted. You might not need to do this if you only want to play the tracks on your PC/laptop

Click on the title of this blog to download a free programme called FormatFactory. I read a few reviews and this programme got the thumbs up as a good all round converter. If you want to check it out and a few other options here is the link to the review page I looked at Gizmo's Freeware. Once you have installed it open the programme and follow these instructions. Click on VIDEO on the left hand side and then select ALL TO AVI. Click ADD FILE to select the video from wherever you have it stored on your computer and click OPEN. Highlight your selected file on the next screen and click OPTION to select where you want the track to start and stop from. For a normal music track click 0.00 for START TIME and slide the bar along to the end of the track and click END TIME. It's a wee bit fiddly but you just need to be quick to start the track at 0.00. Now click OK. On the next screen click OK again. On the next screen highlight the track you want to convert and click START. I have found it takes just under a minute to convert a track. Now open OUTPUT FOLDER to view the track you just converted. The track is now converted to only audio but I found it wouldn't play in my son's phone so I had to convert it again to MP3. If you need to do this then first copy the track you converted to your desktop from the OUTPUT FOLDER and go back to the FormatFactory screen. This time click AUDIO and select ALL TO MP3. Again click ADD FILE and select the converted track from your desktop. This time click SELECT RANGE to set the start and stop times then click OK. On the next screen click OK again. Highlight the track you want to convert to MP3 and click START. Once done this track is now able to be put on phones or MP3 players.

It might sound a bit complicated but once you have done it a couple of times it takes only a few minutes to do the whole process. I got my 10 year old daughter to do it and she managed fine. Good luck!!