Is there any way to import MPEG-4 to Audacity??
Submitted by patricestrahan on Wed, 2005-09-21 19:41.
I tried but the program didn't recognize the format. I got the recording I needed anyway, but in a sort of messy way (playing it in iTunes while recording). I guess it sounds fine, I was just wondering if there was any way I could import the file more directly....
Short answer? No (I assume
Short answer? No (I assume you mean like Apple/AAC encodeded sound?).
You will need to convert the file to wav or aiff. First, check out this application, very handy for file conversion to and from various audio formats. It is available on Cornell systems as well as for free download (Mac, Linux, Windows).
http://www.lcscanada.com/audiomove/
If that won't do it, let me know and I can help further with a tool called Mplayer (it may be the greatest audio/video Swiss-army knife ever made...I have yet to throw a file at it that it won't play/convert, but it can be tricky to use).
Don't settle for the "playing through iTunes" result...although I appreciate the initiative!
== Digital Music Faculty
hmm...
can't you use cubase? import the audio, or audio from video file? i think that might work, then export as .wav if you want to use audacity as your sound wave editor.