How to separate the audio from an avi movie

[BonnieW88]

I had a VCR tape made from a collection of old 8mm film and they added a music background. I'm converting to AVI and intend to edit the film so that clips would be in the right sequence but then the sound track will be all messed up. I'd like to remove the audio which is really nice and add it back to the edited MPEG. Can anyone suggest a way to do this that isn't way over my head?

[theDruid]

You can use VirtualDub to do all of this.

Don't separate the audio and video streams until you've got all the clips in the right order.

Once you've got the clips all spliced back together, and in the right order, then split the audio out and normalise it / clean it up etc..

Finally, put the audio back together with the video, and use VirtualDub to frameserve back into an encoder like TMPGEnc (to get to MPEG).

good luck,
mcdruid.