how can i remove part of audi from a video

[Remyisme]

I have a WMV file, from which i wish to remove part of the audio in the beggining of it, it starts with a woman narrating for like 16 seconds than other people talk, but i'd like to remove this 16 seconds part of audio, without removing the background noise, you know, just this woman's narration not whats' under it.

How do i do it?

[gadgetguy]

I know this has been discussed before. Try a search for "Voice Removal"

[jtoolman2000]

I don't think you can. The only way would be if each element was on its own channel per say. But in most video clips one may aquire it is a single wave form sterio or otherwise containing ALL the audio collapsed into one.

Pretty much the same as with layered graphics files. Once flattened, that's pretty much it.

If you have any dead areas with not voice and just with background noise, you could cut out the 16 second part, load as many copies of the back ground noise and blend them together with an audio trasitions so it sort of sounds continuous. If you are really carefull, you might be able to pull it off. But as to whether you can subtract it from the existing audio,,, I don't believe so. At least not with tools available to us.

[mats.hogberg]

...which basically boils down to - "it can't be satisfactorily done" - at least not under anything but ideal circumstances.

/Mats

[stantheman1976]

I know this could be done with Ulead Video Studio 9. Load the files, the go to share and create an audio file, saving it to wav format. Then load that audio file into the music track of the editor and mute the audio from the original. The on the music track you just inserted go to the point you want it to start and plit it. This will make the audio into 2 separate parts, but won't affect sync at all. Then mute the audio from the first part.

[mats.hogberg]

...and how would that retain all but the voice from the original audio track (which I gathered was the trick here)?

/Mats

[16/9]

Adobe audition 1.5

[stantheman1976]

...and how would that retain all but the voice from the original audio track (which I gathered was the trick here)?

/Mats

I thought he was wanting to remove the 16 seconds altogether. Sorry.