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    I'm making a video compilation of various FC2 clips, and for a few of them I need access to the raw audio files contained within the game.

    Is there a tool or extractor of some kind out there to isolate the individual audio files?

    Or...

    Does anyone know a way of seperating the music/ambience of Windows programs from the audio stream recorded by Fraps while recording gameplay of FC2?

    What happened was, while Game-testing a map I I had been making, I was listening to music. Figuring that Fraps would only record the audio of the program i was actually using it in, I left the music on.

    Now all my videos are contaminated with music that's going to get all chopped up and out of synch as I edit the video.


    -Windows Vista Home Premium, x64 Edition
    -Fraps 2.9.8, build 7777 set to "Detect Best input", Vista Direct Stream
    - nForce 780i SLI w/ Azalia HD Audio

    Note: I'm editing with Adobe Premier Pro CS4, and while I have music polluting my "action" audio, it seems that there's /no/ audio whatsoever unless there's music playing in the first place.

    This is only within Premier. I can play the raw .avi and hear all audio. (Even Windows movie maker can monitor/replay the audio.)

    Thanks in advance for help and suggestions!
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    i use adobe preimier quite a bit and i have an idea if i understand what you're doing...

    it would involve recording two diffrent times...

    first record everything you want with music off (as in turn music off in the main menu), so that the sound effects are still there, and place that in the timeline, then go back and just stand still and record (video again) with the music on for as long as your video is, and lay the video clip with the music on it below the primary cut one, then you should have your cut video complete with the sound effects, and un-interupted music. since the un-cut video is below the cut one, only the cut video will actually be seen, but the audio from both clips should merge.

    of course i'm talking about advanced editing option, and not the basic (As you need multiple video lines and audio lines)

    that's the only thing i can think of...
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    first record everything you want with music off (as in turn music off in the main menu), so that the sound effects are still there, and place that in the timeline, then go back and just stand still and record (video again) with the music on for as long as y

    Oh, this isn't in-game music. Sorry if I didn't clarify that.

    It's just music I had been listening to in the background from iTunes. (That's why I was so confused as to how it got in there - the fraps videos.)

    The key is making the music disappear!
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    oh sorry, just the way you were talking it sounded like you were talking about the far cry music...

    fraps just records input... i even used it once to record things playing in windows media player (lol long story) if someone IMs you (assuming it didn't minimize the game) and you were in far cry 2, recording it'd record that sound as well..

    sorry i know no way of seperating the two sounds... i mean, you can always just put the video on the timeline disable the related track music, and then input your own song in, but that will erase all ingame sound effects as well... and going back and getting all those sound effects and editing them in would honestly be more trouble then it was worth...

    so my two suggestions are, disable the audio of the video completely and put in your own song or something (finding the right song and synching it with the action can be very gratifying... i have my own stuff on youtube... a sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG0n9UbZez0 )

    or just reshoot everything.... i really don't think there's a way to seperate the two diffrent audio tracks... seeing as fraps records them as one...

    i mean there are programs designed to do stuff like that... but that's really high dollar ****, noise cancelation software capable of targeting specific parts of inter-weaved audio, again, more trouble then it's really worth. just trying to help.
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    Actually I found a couple of programs-- both freeware-- to do what I was looking for.

    It's a bit of an arse-around way of doing it, since I'm using the same files which are already loaded into premier, but you can use "AoA Audio Extractor" to separate the audio the stream (into WAV, FLAC, or mp3 if you like. . .) and then Audacity to edit and mix the sound, or re-encode it if you have the plugins.

    AoA Audio extractor: http://www.aoamedia.com/audioextractor.htm

    Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

    That's for anyone else who's lookin.
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    did you manage to get the far cry 2 sound files ?
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    Hey calebchetty,

    Please refrain from necro-ing older threads.
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