Muting certain parts of the audio track.

[silmarallion]

Hi I'm looking to mute different section of the audio track in different formats of video.
AVI, WMV, ASF.

I know that I would have been able to do this in Vegas or Adobe Premiere, but I have run out of the trial license and cannot afford to purchase the product.

I was scouring through the comments in the tools section to try and find something free/cheap to isolate parts in the audio track and mute them. And could not seem to find anything, I have tired windows movie make and roxio videowave as I have them both installed on my station. But with moviemaker you seem to be able to only mute the whole audio track, and videowave doesnt seem to be able to handle this either.

Can anyone recommend free/cheap editing program which is functionable, to mute specific parts on the audio track of a video file?

Thanks,
silmarallion.

[Safesurfer]

With WMM you just have to split the video/audio on the timeline at the point you want the mute to start and end (i.e., two splits), then you can mute the audio just for the split item. This is not a physical split, your source file remains unchanged.

[silmarallion]

Thanks for the response.
I have checked again and the split option is not available to me (it's faded out). This is the case for both the DV-AVI file and WMV file.

Any idea why this is the case?

Cheers.

Edit - Please ignore this question. Found out you have to play/pause first in order to split.
Edit 2 - I understand now how the split function will work to mute. Now I want to save the file as it is keeping its original settings.
These are the options I get when choosing to save movie.

If I choose any of these the video will surely be transcoded?

[Safesurfer]

With DV-AVI at least, if you choose that output it doesn't reencode (metadata is preserved too, i.e., datecode), the only change that might happen is that WMM saves as Type1 DV-AVIs instead of Type2.

Don't know about WMV, if you keep the same bitrate and size etc, it might not reencode as well - you'd have to try it and see.

[silmarallion]

Just wanted to say thanks Safesurfer, were a big help.