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Separating music from dialogue in a .mp4 video
I have been asked to separate the music and the dialogue in four separate videos(.mp4) that were shot 3 years ago by an outside vendor.
The client likes the dialogue of the videos and wants me to cut all four of them into one with it’s own music. Currently all four videos have different music tracks.
Is this a task that Premiere is suited for or perhaps Audition?
Thanks for your help.
Alan Balch
Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
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3 Replies
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Sorry…this isn’t something you can do. The audio is mixed. Unless the .mp4 has multi-channel audio, with the music and other elements on separate tracks (highly unlikely)…you aren’t going to be able to do this. It’s most common for all the audio to be mixed down to a stereo mix when making these, or any final delivery digital file. There is no way to separate the music and dialog from a stereo mix. A very experienced audio engineer wouldn’t be able to pull that off.
The client is asking for the impossible. If they want things separate, they’ll most likely have to contact the original vendor for this. They would (should) have the original project file…They might need to rebuild the project with the source material again.
Shane
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What Shane said. If you have access to the camera originals, you could recreate the work. Or if you have discrete audio tracks, you can accomplish this.
But if it is already fully mixed, you are being asked to remove an egg from a cake that has already been mixed and baked.
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Hi Guys,
This is what I thought as well and explained to the client… but not quite as eloquently as Jon did.
[Jon Doughtie] “you are being asked to remove an egg from a cake that has already been mixed and baked.”
I explained it more like a jpeg vs a psd layered file, but they got the point.
Thanks for your help!
Alan Balch
Videographer/Carle Foundation Hosptial
alan.balch@carle.com
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