Category Archives: Rip Audio from Video

Rip Audio from Video, Sound Recording, Video Capture

Save a Youtube Video as an MP3

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If you’re looking for a quick and easy (and FREE) way to turn a Youtube video into an MP3, here’s how you do it:

1. Go to Youtube.com and find the video you want to save as an MP3 on your computer.

2. From the search page, simply right click the preferred link (we like to use the official video link) and choose ‘copy link address’.

3. Head over to offliberty.com

4. Right click in the link space in the middle of the page and choose ‘Paste”. The link you just copied from Youtube is now pasted into the link slot on Offliberty.com. It will look like this:

Paste the url you just copied into the slot.
Paste the url you just copied into the slot as shown here.

5. Click the OFF button and wait a second or two.

6. Right click the slot, now yellow and filled with instructions, choose ‘Save link as’ and the MP3 of the video you chose is saved to your computer. You can, of course, tell your browser where you want the file saved. The screen looks like this:

The right click menu at offliberty.com
The slot is yellow until you right click it, then it turns black. Click ‘Save link as’ and choose where to save the MP3 file.

7. If you want to save the video, click ‘I want video file’. You could save the MP3 first and then save the video file, whatever you want to do.

This system is infinitely faster than any other system we’ve found to save MP3s from Youtube videos. We hope you like it and use it.

Thanks for reading!

Rip Audio from Video, Video Capture, Windows Live Movie Maker

Windows Live Movie Maker – How to split audio from video

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The problem: my digital camera records video in the MP4 format. Because of that, I can’t split the audio from the video in most video editing programs. I use Windows Live Movie Maker most of the time and this free program doesn’t offer splitting audio from video anyway. The video is in high definition and looks great but today I had to shoot a scene where only the audio could be used.

The solution: This is a multi-step process. Here’s how I edited the whole thing to create a movie using only the audio from the original shoot.

1. Edit the video (sound and all) in Windows Live Movie Maker, removing all the extra sections. Make sure you remove everything you don’t need. WLMM will edit MP4s but it outputs the file as a WMV file, which isn’t a problem.

2. Take the completed WMV file and convert it to a WMA audio file in Format Factory. Format Factory is available here: http://www.formatoz.com/ (you can use any converter you want, obviously, but I like Format Factory.)

3. Open WLMM again and put in the visuals that you want to use, could be video or photographs.   Try to make sure it is the same length as the audio track you have created in the previous step. I used a series of photos to create the video portion.

4. Add the ‘music’ (the WMA file that you created with Format Factory)  that you created in step 2. It could be music or spoken word, doesn’t matter. Your timeline will have to be adjusted to make the audio match the photos/video but that’s easy.

5. Save your video as normal and WLMM will put the two together in the final WMV that it creates.

 

That’s it! It took me a few hours to figure this out but now I know how to do it. So do you!

Thanks for reading.