Tutorial: mkv to avi or how to remove the background music from your voiceovers.

[secretlytodream]

Ok guys! So finally, here's the long promised tutorial! One of the most popular questions people ask me (ask.fm) is how I remove the background music from the voice overs I use in my videos. Now, I started doing it fairly recently, maybe in 2010? Mainly I vid Supernatural videos and at the time I had a copy of season 2 (not even in the same country

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[counteragent]

Wow, THANKS!!!! :D :D :D :D

[secretlytodream]

Hope this will be useful! :)

[huddy4chris]

hmm I followed your instructions to the letter, but when I tried to convert the video file with avc2avi it said that it could not open the input file. I tried it with The Empty Hearse (Sherlock) ep., which, after the extraction via mkvextract, gave me this file: Sherlock.S03E01.The.Empty.Hearse.1080p.WEB.DL.vk007_Track1.h264. Yet, it doesn't recognise it, so I can't continue with the next steps...

What do you think I should do?

[secretlytodream]

How does it not recognize it? I mean, does avs2avi see the file? If not, you need to choose "all files" in the window where you choose your files. If it's not the case that I'm not sure what's wrong without seeing anything more, sorry.

[huddy4chris]

yup, that WORKED!! thank you so much! I'm going to keep it going and see how it works out. i always wanted to use mkv files in HD in SV but it refused to open them.. Let's see now! THANK YOU! ;)

Edit: one more thing I forgot: the audio file from the extraction came out as aac and not as ac3 (this only in the series 3 episodes, as they were originally encoded this way for some reason). Upon opening VirtualDub there is not an *all files option that could open this type of audio, it only has specific ones (damn...). Any suggestions?

Sorry for the load of Q's...

[secretlytodream]

Please read the tutorial carefully. As I said, for this particular method you need the audio to be in ac3 codec, otherwise it won't work. If you tried to convert bluray rips, it's highly possible that those rips are made with aac codec. You might want to try looking for other bluray rips or just go with the WEB DL rip - the quality is hardly worse but practically all web dl rips have ac3 codec. Hope this helps!

Help?

[chasingelegance]

For some reason whenever I try to save it on virtual dub it wont save the audio file...

Re: Help?

[secretlytodream]

how exactly does it not save the file? Is there an error or it's SonyVegas that doesn't see the audio?

[ext_2433656]

wow! I've been looking for a tutorial like this for ages! but it seems like my computer (windows 7) is not compatible with VirtualDub. It won't read in the AVI files. DO you happen to know any alternative software I could use?

[secretlytodream]

Hi there!

I have Windows 7 and it works fine. I'm pretty sure you just need to have some video codecs installed.

[ext_2433656]

yes!! it worked after I installed K-lite. thank you!!

[secretlytodream]

You're welcome :)

[neverworld1]

Hmm. I used a different method to convert the file than what you've shown here, but the result seems to be the same. Except for one minor problem - the audio in the trimmer is fine (background noise is gone on channel 3 etc) but when I drag it down to the timeline, the audio can only be heard through the left earbud/speaker. In trimmer I can hear it on both sides, but on the timeline I can only hear it on the left side. Any ideas? :\

[secretlytodream]

Each track - either audio or video - has its own settings that are applied to the whole track, i.e. everything that's on that particular track.