My uncle wanted me to remove a song from a video and add it to another. A check online and you’ll find hundreds of sources offering to do this. I wanted to use something that was already on my system, and that something was VLC.
First, I removed the background sound from the first video. I wrote about this before. Read How To Remove Audio From Video With VLC
But there is a simpler way. You will need to have the record button showing. Go to “View” then “Advanced Controls” and you’ll now see a new control bar at the bottom of the video. The record button is the “Red Circle”.
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At the top menu, click on “Audio”, then “Audio Track” and then “Disable”. Play the video and record it by clicking the record button. The result is a silent video.
Now I need to isolate the sound from the second video. I installed a program many moons ago called “File Converter”.
It’s free, and it works by adding a shell extension to your context menus for converting videos. All I have to do is right-click on a video and in the context menu, I click on “File Converter” and then select the format. In this case, “To Mp3”.
I now have a silent video and an MP3 file – time to merge them.
Open VLC and click on “Media” (top menu), then “Convert/Save” or Ctrl+R.
In the box that opens, click “+Add…” and find your video.
On the bottom of that box, check “Show more options”. Then check “Play another media synchronously (extra audio file, …)” and in the “Extra media” field use the “Browse…” button to add your second file.
Another box opens. Click “+Add..”, find the file (mp3), and then “Select”.
This takes you back to the main window. Click “Convert/Save”.
In the “Convert” box that opens. Select the format that you want it saved in by clicking on the “Profile” field. “Browse” for your destination folder. Name it. Then click “Start”.
Wait. The progress bar will be at the bottom.
It worked, but with a couple of slight issues. The sound starts seven seconds before the video shows, but it only seems to happen in VLC. There is no noticeable delay in other media players such as PotPlayer and Media Player Classic. Windows Media Player will not play it at all.
The video section was six minutes long, and the audio was two minutes long. The video length was automatically cropped to fit the audio. I will still consider this a success.
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