Removing voice over

[Hal05154]

I've download a video that has a Russian voiceover, but I can just make out the english underneath. Is there a way to remove the voice over? It is a .avi file

Thanks,

Hal

[filmboss80]

Sorry. It's like trying to separate the blue and yellow out of green paint that's already dried on the wall. Unless, of course, you're dealing with two separate language tracks... But since it's an .avi file, that's doubtful.

[guns1inger]

Mediainfo will tell you if you have two audio tracks. If you only have one, listen through headphones. If the Russian is in both channels (left and right) then you are screwed and might as well delete the file. If the Russian is only in one channel then you can demux the audio, load it into an audio editor like audacity, copy the English channel over the Russian channel to replace it, save the new audio track, and remux it into video to replace the current track.

[Cornucopia]

as an addendum to what Guns1inger said, if it has Russian in BOTH channels, but English in only ONE, you could try using a channel difference (subtraction) effect/filter. This might also cause other elements (music, fx, ambience) to subtract also, so it may not be what you want.

The only other way would be if the Russian and the English were in 2 completely different frequency bands because of vocal registers.
E.g.: Russian is Bass male voice, English is Soprano female voice.
Then you could use a High-Pass (or Mid/Band-Pass) filter to just keep the English one.

Otherwise, you're SOL.

Scott