Easy way to strip audio tracks from XDCAM clips
 

Hey everyone!

I just spent the last week doing some (mundane) corporate work, filming six day-long meetings with an EX3 to find out at the end that they changed their minds and really don't want the video portion, just the audio for transcription.

Is there a fast and easy way on a Mac to crank out MP3 files from 45 hours worth of BPAV folders? Neither Clip Browser nor XDCAM Transfer seem to do what I want, and unless I missed something, MPEG Streamclip doesn't either.

If I can avoid it, I'd rather not have to re-wrap anything.

Thanks!

Adobe Audition is what I use to strip audio from video. Works pretty well on everything that I have tried and it's fast.

There are 2 tools you can try.

mp4Creator

MP4Creator Home

Mp4Box

MP4BOX Documentation - GPAC Project on Advanced Content

The GUI for Mp4Box is Yamb

http://yamb.unite-video.com/

And although I haven't tried it yet on MP4, I do most of my demuxing with Tsmuxer:

http://smlabs.net/tsmuxer_en.html

John

Thanks!

I'll gives those a try.

If you are on Avid Media Composer 3.5 or later you could use the AMA feature to open up the native files in a bin, throw them into a sequence and then export/audio/wav or aiff. That would be a one step stripping of the audio and would also give you the ability to sort your clips before creating audio files.